Hi - On 2023-07-30 11:10 AM, Greg Skinner wrote: ...
As for car travel from the Silicon Valley to the SF Union Square Hilton goes, perhaps one can do it in an hour from the northern part (Sunnyvale, Mountain View, North San José), especially if using HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes. However, I doubt it could be done in that short a time (on average) from deeper in the valley (Campbell, Los Gatos, Almaden Valley). My conclusions are based on SF Bay Area traffic reports and some sample trip plans using Google Maps.
... That seemed implausible, so I just checked the Google Map travel time from our house in Almaden Valley to the Union Square Hilton. It weighed in at 1 hour, six minutes. Not surprising since we're about as far from a freeway onramp as one can get in San Jose. For fun, I also checked using the address of our old house in Campbell. That one came to exactly one hour. Of course, for both that's taking 280 rather than the hopelessly congested 101. Rush hour times would likely be much worse. Randy
