6/3 Going to Mendocino tomorrow. Recommendations on roads to take and
traffic tips? I'm thinking of biiting the bullet and just taking
1 all the way up. Leaving from Oakland. Is there ever a good time to
try to cut through SF/GG Bridge? TIA. --erikred
\_ Why not the san rafael bridge and up 101->128->1? It'd be a lot
faster, and still very pretty.
\_ I grew up in Mendocino. I highly recommend the 101->128->1
route. Highway 1 all the way up is not worth the length of
the drive or the near death experiences involving Winnebagos.
--lye
\_ Is tomorrow a holiday or is there something going on in Mendocino
that would alter normal traffic patterns? I don't normally find
midday traffic to/from SF to be bad. If you want to get to the GG
bridge from the East Bay, may I recommend the Fell roll?
Basically, grab 80 across the Bay Bridge, exit Civic Center. Take
a right on 9th St, change to the leftmost lane. This drops you
onto Hayes once you cross Market, stay in the left lane, turn left
on Gough, right on Fell immediately thereafter. The lights on Fell
are timed, and this will take you all the way down to GG Park.
Follow Fell past the panhandle and it cuves and drops you on to
Lincoln. Take Lincoln to 19th Ave, and turn right. 19th Ave turns
into Park Presidio, which drops you on to the GG bridge. -dans
\- if you are leaving from oakland, take richmond bridge ...
clearly. i also think franklin to lombard is viable if you are
going through SF for some reason. traffic at fell & jfk can get
weird on weekends. and with no exit directly on to fell this
is not that ideal any more. fulton on northside of park can
also be faster than lincoln. [the advice above has 3 bits of
backtracking: go south from hayes to fell, go south again
to lincoln, go out to 19th to cross park on south when fulton
will get you to park presideo around 14th]. --SF Route Optimizer
\_ I agree that Franklin to Lombard is viable, but Lombard is
a total clusterfuck at all times both wrt bad timing of
lights and quantity of traffic. The ``backtracking'' from
Hayes to Fell is literally one block. Probably the worst
part of the route is getting from the 9th St./Civic Center
exit to Market and Hayes. I agree, Fulton >> Lincoln, but it
requires an additional tricky turn (Stanyan northbound) from
Fell. -dans |
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