Bay Area Thread

[cardinalbruintriton]

Note to self: when coming back from a Cellarmaker / City Beer Store trip, remember to tap out my Clipper Card if I'm going to Sunnyvale. This is the third time I've paid for a train trip to San Jose. LOL

If you realize you forgot to tag off early enough, I've heard you can go to back your station and tag off.

 

[drgarage1]

If you realize you forgot to tag off early enough, I've heard you can go to back your station and tag off.

You get at least a few hours to do so.

 

[tosh1]

Note to self: when coming back from a Cellarmaker / City Beer Store trip, remember to tap out my Clipper Card if I'm going to Sunnyvale. This is the third time I've paid for a train trip to San Jose. LOL

[If I'm early enough to catch the last VTA 902 light rail train home from Mountain View, it's usually not an issue]

If you realize you forgot to tag off early enough, I've heard you can go to back your station and tag off.

You have 4 hours to tag off from your initial tag on. That is assuming you are on Caltrain?

Every agency has different rules set up in the Clipper system, and currently I am knee deep in understanding some of the interactions between agencies on the worst ******* smart card system in the country.

 

[matedog]

You have 4 hours to tag off from your initial tag on. That is assuming you are on Caltrain?

Every agency has different rules set up in the Clipper system, and currently I am knee deep in understanding some of the interactions between agencies on the worst ******* smart card system in the country.

Caltrain is particularly egregious and un-consumer friendly.

I know I've talked to tosh and probably mentioned here, but forgetting to tag on one morning (right after reloading my Clipper card, it was 6am okay) nearly cost me $403.

 

[tosh1]

Caltrain is particularly egregious and un-consumer friendly.

I know I've talked to tosh and probably mentioned here, but forgetting to tag on one morning (right after reloading my Clipper card, it was 6am okay) nearly cost me $403.

I am not defending Caltrain, but any issue that is Clipper related is the fault of the agency responsible for the whole debacle in the first place (MTC) and the wonderful vendor Cubic, not the individual transit agency.

In order for our agency to get one of our monthly passes onto Clipper the vendor requires over $150k to implement it. Clipper is the biggest transportation money pit in the state.

 

[HeavySpeedway]

If you realize you forgot to tag off early enough, I've heard you can go to back your station and tag off.

At 11:30 at night, after quite a few beers (including a IIIPA), I'm not realizing that soon enough. Just to give you an idea of my state of mind, I ended up going in to Fibbar MaGees's to get one for the road before hitting Lyft/Uber. That place was nuts, for reasons I'm too old to understand. I don't even remember what I got to drink.

I suppose had I remembered at that point, I could have gone back to the station to tap in, but for 4 bucks I probably would have passed.

I've not had any problems with Clipper that weren't self-induced, and even on one of those occasions they gave me a refund.

 

[archagon]

Screw Caltrain. Their schedule is crap. Their Clipper top-up machines are from the 50s. They apparently have an idiotic "rivalry" with BART that prevents anything from getting done. Yesterday I missed the last train home - 9pm on a SUNDAY - because they literally wouldn't wait one minute for the BART passengers to climb a set of stairs. They pulled out of the station juuuuust as the frantic passengers were running over to the other side of the platform. What the ****, Bay Area.

 

[jtmartino1]

 

[cardinalbruintriton]

They pulled out of the station juuuuust as the frantic passengers were running over to the other side of the platform.

Me watching these folks at the Milbrae stop

 

[tosh1]

Their Clipper top-up machines are from the 50s.

but any issue that is Clipper related is the fault of the agency responsible for the whole debacle in the first place (MTC) and the wonderful vendor Cubic, not the individual transit agency.

 

[archagon]

And yet somehow the BART and MUNI have swanky new machines that take all of a minute to use, while the Caltrain machines have to actually, unironically "dial" some host and wait 2 minutes before the transaction goes through.

 

[tosh1]

And yet somehow the BART and MUNI have swanky new machines that take all of a minute to use, while the Caltrain machines have to actually, unironically "dial" some host and wait 2 minutes before the transaction goes through.

Still got jack to do with Caltrain. MTC holds the purse strings on what CLipper equipment to purchase and install, not the individual agencies. Unless the agencies wish to spend their own scarce resources on a project that is Regionaly funded.

Edit: **** everything else I typed, I am going to get myself in trouble saying too much.

 

[HeavySpeedway]

I did not intend to set off this storm; I was just sort of laughing at how often I forget to swipe off the Caltrain.

I'll go hide now.

Was anybody else at Cellarmaker, late Saturday afternoon / early evening?

 

[rrryanc]

I did not intend to set off this storm; I was just sort of laughing at how often I forget to swipe off the Caltrain.

I'll go hide now.

Was anybody else at Cellarmaker, late Saturday afternoon / early evening?

I was there with my wife and then later her friends around 8ish maybe? Was part of a birthday celebration for one of her friends - they were at Flying Pig and then The Willows, so we went by Cellarmaker for a bit in between.

Also, I really like Clipper. It's not the most seamless thing ever, but going from bus to Caltrain to ferry to VTA and having it automatically deduct my credit card when I need to refill makes me MUCH more likely to use public transportation.

 

[HeavySpeedway]

I was there with my wife and then later her friends around 8ish maybe? Was part of a birthday celebration for one of her friends - they were at Flying Pig and then The Willows, so we went by Cellarmaker for a bit in between.

I was probably eating at the Thai place around that time, so we probably missed each other by about a half hour or so.

 

[RyanG1]

I was probably eating at the Thai place around that time, so we probably missed each other by about a half hour or so.

Skip the Thai food next time, and check out So if you haven't already been. Good wings and other fried stuff.

 

[HeavySpeedway]

Skip the Thai food next time, and check out So if you haven't already been. Good wings and other fried stuff.

I've heard that said, though I was unable to figure out their hours. Their online presence is spotty at best. Edit: and from what I've read on Yelp, they don't exactly stick to a standard schedule.

I wasn't that hungry, anyway - just want to make sure I had something solid in my stomach. The spring rolls and some soup from the Thai place worked well for that purpose.

 

[mjl21]

When did this site become Talk Peninsula Transit?

 

[jtmartino1]

Stopped by Beltramo's this weekend down in Menlo. Solid selection and excellent pricing; about as good as it gets here on the Peninsula. Wish it were closer to home, but it'll do for now!

Nice running into you kiki3drt292

 

[beerandraiderfan]

You guys are a bunch of tag offs.

 

[rrryanc]

You guys are a bunch of tag offs.

Well I think we've already established that HeavySpeedway isn't...

 

[schwartzoid]

Anyone interested in Trappist Zwanze day tix?

Face value have 2.

stupac2

 

[stupac2]

Anyone interested in Trappist Zwanze day tix?

Face value have 2.

Yes, I am interested.

 

[loeyjarko]

Anyone who pays $120 for 6 bottles of Beatification, free punch in the face from me!

 

[preacher1]

Anyone that waits in line for beer, free punch in the face from me!

FTFY

 

[RyanG1]

Anyone who pays $120 for 6 bottles of Beatification, free punch in the face from me!

Been sleeping in the bushes and washing myself in the fountain since 9/6.

 

[archagon]

I've been looking for a fresh 6-pack of Lagunitas Sucks (2 weeks old or less) for the past month, and the youngest I've seen was over a month old. (Most have been way, way older.) Same with the 4-packs of Double Jack. Anyone know where I could find some? Do they even exist?

(I'm assuming that since they don't fly off the shelves, stores stockpile any new inventory until the old stuff sells out, which results in a perpetual cycle of older beer...)

 

[CommanderofAwesome]

I've been looking for a fresh 6-pack of Lagunitas Sucks (2 weeks old or less) for the past month, and the youngest I've seen was over a month old. (Most have been way, way older.) Same with the 4-packs of Double Jack. Anyone know where I could find some? Do they even exist?

(I'm assuming that since they don't fly off the shelves, stores stockpile any new inventory until the old stuff sells out, which results in a perpetual cycle of older beer...)

Fresh FSW.....in the Bay Area?

Gotta to go Ohio/East Coast for fresh FSW. Srs

 

[kpasizzle]

Do I dare tackle this 2L growler of dank statement knowing I have to work tmrw?

 

[snuffy707]

Do I dare tackle this 2L growler of dank statement knowing I have to work tmrw?

Yes. Finish by 9pm and you'll be fine.