First time taking the Caltrain here in SF. I thought it was pretty self explainatory. You grab a…read moreticket at the machine and then wait by your trains door. It was a nice building with some art around. Reasonable price. I was able to get to Palo Alto easy enough.

What's not to like about Caltrain?…read more Unlike Bart, it's clean, safe and not crime-ridden. (And no, it's not an exaggeration). In general, I don't like taking public transportation in the Bay Area for the aforementioned reasons. But when I do, I take Waymo (which I actually do LOVE!), followed by Caltrain. It starts in San Francisco and can take you all the way down to Gilroy (with transfers). It makes stops all along the Peninsula. With just a short Uber ride, you can reach the downtown areas in many of the Peninsula cities. Seats are comfortable and clean. There's a Safeway across the street, where you can grab food before or after your ride. I actually find Caltrain a very relaxing way to commute. I can usually work in a quick nap or just doom scroll. Their new trains all have free Wi-Fi, which works really well. Trains runs pretty much on schedule too.

I love mass transit. I use it because it is efficient and effective. In most instances, it is…read morecompetitive with driving a personal vehicle. and during rush hour it typically is faster for the destinations I am headed to. But I also believe in the concept. We have become cynical about the public good, and that is a loss; the social contract is made real through infrastructure projects. I have used the Civic Center station probably a couple hundred times. It used to be, for a decade, the closest to my workplace. I am quite familiar with it. That includes at all hours. Despite my fondness for mass transit, I have to report that this station is probably the single worst of those I know well. I swear this is true, and you can confirm it easily enough on the internet: the elevators have broken down due to human feces being stuck in the machinery. There is just an overwhelming population of troubled souls in the neighborhood. They need help; I describe the situation not to condemn the individuals but to lament the state of our diverse democracy. I still use Civic Center. I would not warn people away. I would say that if you are not comfortable with the Muni or BART to begin with, you will have qualms about this specific site. That is all.

Centrally located, with both Muni and BART lines. Provides access to several key theatres and…read moremuseums in the Civic Center area. Putting up the gates for BART seems to have helped considerably. Remaining issues are common to the surrounding area hard to solve.

The junction between downtown and the outer neighborhoods! I…read morestation agent is always on site. The space has been generally tidy (yeah!). Just not on the BART line... but go on stop East on the Metro to Civic Center station (which can be dodgy) and get off the Metro to enter into the BART section through another lobby entrance.

It's a major subway station connecting multiple lines, and I've transited here with different…read moreoutboard directions. Although the waiting time and frequency for certain lines could vary from time to time.

I've been coming to this station all my life honestly and I can't really say anything *so far* has…read morehappened to me out of the ordinary. This is public transportation, people so of course it's going to be "scary" as some of you descriptive folk put it. You're on 16th St, get over it it's always been this bad and there's nothing you or anyone can do about it unless you sign up for the waiting list of utopia. Anyway I digress. It's always pretty easy peasy getting from point a to point b from this location and there's many great coffee shops, restaurants, a Walgreens (which won't be there much longer if that housing project goes through) all above the station. there's a US bank across the street, I mean come on people it's an inner city tube, slather on the lube for your sensitivities and pick a route and be on your way.

I made myself flash cards so I could better get along with people. On one side goes what I'm…read morethinking the other side the more diplomatic version. Card #1 "I've had enough of you people!!" the other side "my social battery is low." Card #2 "You belong in the nut house!!!" on the other side "bless your heart." Card #3 "What is wrong with you?!" the other side "we have different schools of thought" Enough cringeworthy office jargon and passive aggressive yapping - there is no good way to say it but this bart station is absolute sh%!#. There you have it plain and simple. Direct and to the point. I say it like it is for every German tourist out there who thinks all the USA is golden paved roads, wonderbra and sunshine. Reality check. Now let me get back to my studies - I got a whole pile of those.

Amazing news the elevators were actually working at this station. They had an agent in the Elevator…read morewaiting for the next guest to arrive. I've never come across this level of hospitality before. Usually you have to contact a gate agent to assist in using the elevator and that is if it's working at that station. They seem to go in and out all the time and at some stations they never seem to be in operation. This is a good station to walk to if you are coming from or going to a Giants game. It's actually a closer walk then if you walk to the Embarcadero station and that is where most guests walk to when going to or coming from a GIants game. It's about a 15-20 minute walk from the Montgomery BART station to the Ball park. The BART station's first stop if you are heading from Oracle Park to the Pittsburg BayPoint line is the Montgomery station so when we arrive we were able to get seats. Next we stopped at the Embarcadero Station and it was flooded with people and there were very few seats for them, most people had to stand in our train. The initial wait for the train was 15 minutes from the time we entered the station from the Giants game till we hopped on the train. The Daly City line came several times over while we were waiting. Bathrooms. I can't speak to their bathroom situation as we used them at the Ballpark before we left so we didn't need to use them. BART no longer uses the old school BART tickets, they have revolved into using the Clipper Cards or a Credit Card. I have a plastic clipper card somewhere, but I'm not exactly sure where it is and failed to bring it. The good thing about using a Clipper Card is you aren't holding out your credit card to come and go using BART. I was afraid I would drop it in the crowd. They also have a Clipper App you can use, but I'm not a big fan of paying for things with apps. In the end I took my chances and used my credit card as a key to get in and out of the BART station. I'll probably use my Credit Card next time I use BART too just for the convince. In addition I don't like putting money on cards as I always end up with an odd amount left over that I can never use and it ends up to be lost money.

In a perspective a newcomer, BART Station at Montgomery is a nice place to stop. There are so many…read moregood restaurants around here with a short walking distance. I was here in February 2025. After took the BART train from Oakland, my knees got weaker because I stood in my ride the entire time. Now I had to climb many flights of stairs. Wow. That was insane. Everyone was walking so fast. I got so dizzy. I wish there was a place I can sit and relax before my strenuous journey to the ground level.

I had and continue to have so many misgivings about the Central Subway project (spending $1.6…read morebillion for 1.7 miles of tunnel and only three new stations is a horrible waste of taxpayer money). But it's over now, and I can't deny that at least two of the three new stations are great, and I like that the T-Third Street is finally its own line again--plus its new route makes more sense than its original route. The worst thing about this station is its name. Stop using slashes in the names of transit stops! And transit lines, while you're at it. In most cases, the slash is to include additional information (which is why a slash is bad, because slashes mean either/or, while hyphens [-] *can* mean and, but they don't always), but in this case, they just chose Yerba Buena and Moscone. Huh? Yerba Buena what? Island? Avenue? Gardens? Center for the Arts? And you mean Moscone Center, right? Well, anyone who knows what and where the Moscone Center is also knows about all the Yerba Buena stuff, and vice versa. So why not just choose one name? Moscone Station. See? I solved that for you. Back to the station itself. Almost a year after opening (and before the pre-APEC deep clean), it was still practically spotless. There isn't too much graffiti, and the station itself is gorgeous, from the platform to the mezzanine to the escalators and stairs to the small area with public art at street level. The station is much deeper underground than I expected it to be. There's plenty of room at the bottom of the stairs and escalators, so it should never really feel crowded, except possibly on the platform at times. Realistically, I probably won't catch or get off the train at this station very often, but it's neat that it's here. While they're still clean, you should check out all three new stations.

Very clean and easy to navigate. It was our first time riding so we had high hopes and were not…read moredisappointed.

I needed help merging my Clipper Cards, and I was treated like a moron. I don't even want to share…read morethe issue because it will just piss me off. I got it kinda resolved. But Fu*k'um. And I'm sure they feel the same about the. Let them.

Always helpful. However if you have questions or need assistance regarding being overcharged for a…read moreride on for example Golden Gate Transit bus system when the Clipper system is down and you cannot tag off. You can remedy that IF you have the Clipper card on your phone OR you call the Clipper customer service number. I know this because I had to deal with such a situation and resolved it successfully by calling the customer service number. I do not have the Clipper card app on my phone by choice.

As far as BART stations go, this one is ok. It's not dirty or dangerous, and getting in and out is…read morepretty fast. It would be nice if the bathrooms were operational.

Five stars for the new gates! I appreciate BART making…read moreupgrades to the gates to make sure everyone is paying the fee. Better yet make it free for all but that is not the current rules so making sure everyone pays the total is the correct thing for BART to do and I greatly appreciate it.

This so wonderful ride to take from San Francisco to Sunnyvale I did it for 4 years I went through…read moremy emails I did homework or work related and just relax very clean train.

This station does its job - barely. While safe and convenient for transit, it does not look like…read moreone and is not built like one. Awful layout, poor lighting, overcrowded stairs (how hard was it to build a wide staircase?), non-existent sitting arrangements, insufficient ticket equipment. This place is as welcoming as an anti-utopia movie set.