Commuting

The act of travel by train in California is a physical agility drill. It requires navigation skills, money to cover parking and fares, and a healthy sense of the inevitability of delay.



To reach one's destination, one must be willing to fight car and truck traffic to and from the station, there will likely be six flights of stairs to do (three and three down) before reaching the direction you need to go.

But the result is a hardy Californian. Or realtor signs in yards as people give up on commuting and just move closer to where they need to be.

Or they just move away -- to where the trains actually work or the driving is cake.