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The following is a list of transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Airports

The following airports are served by commercial airlines. In addition there are many general aviation airports in the region.

Public transportation

Bay Area Light Rail and Regional Rail Services.

Bus

Numerous and often overlapping bus transit agencies service the area. The following is a partial list:

Light rail

  • In Santa Clara County, VTA operates operates its own light rail network, serving mostly San Jose, and northern Santa Clara.

Mass transit

The Bay Area is served by a number of mass transit systems:

Ferries

Public ferry services cross the bay to serve both commuters and leisure travelers. Operators include Golden Gate Transit, Blue and Gold Fleet, and Red and White.

Freeways and highways

The Bay Bridge connects San Francisco with Oakland and the East Bay.
Interstate 80 is a major urban freeway in the Bay Area (seen here in Berkeley, California as the Eastshore Freeway). This section of freeway is among the busiest in the region, carrying a peak average of roughly 300,000 cars per day.
Further information: San Francisco Bay Area freeways

The Bay Area possesses an extensive freeway and highway system.

Trans-bay crossings

The Peninsula to the South Bay

  • Interstate 280 and U.S. Route 101 - Eight-lane and, in some parts, 10-lane freeways connecting San Francisco to San Jose, passing through the Peninsula as Junipero Serra and Sinclair Freeways (I-280) and Bayshore Freeway (101). Highway 101 continues south to Gilroy and Salinas, California, before continuing to Los Angeles. For most of its route I-280 runs along the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and is very scenic, while 101 is highly urban and is locally known as "the world's longest parking lot."
  • California State Routes 1 and 35 - Two-lane highways also traveling down the Peninsula, CA-1 along the Pacific coast, and CA-35 near the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. CA-1 as Cabrillo Highway connects to Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, and Monterey, before continuing to Los Angeles.
  • California State Routes 17 (Santa Cruz Freeway) and 9 - Highways through the Santa Cruz Mountains, connecting the South Bay to Santa Cruz. Part of CA-17 in San Jose is an 8 lane freeway.
  • California Routes 237 (South Bay Freeway) and 85 (West Valley Freeway) - Six-lane freeways connecting the west Santa Clara Valley to the east Santa Clara Valley, bypassing Downtown San Jose.
  • California State Route 87 (Guadalupe Parkway) - North-south six-lane freeway entirely in San Jose, connecting San Jose International Airport, Downtown to the Almaden Valley.
  • California State Route 152 - Two-lane highway from Watsonville, crosses the Santa Cruz Mountains to Gilroy, then crosses the Diablo Range through Pacheco Pass to I-5 near Los Banos.
  • California State Route 82 - Highway running from San Jose to Interstate 280 in San Francisco. It is designated a State Route, although it is more similar to an inner-city boulevard, and contains either 2, 4, or 6 lanes. Through much of the San Mateo County, it is also known as El Camino Real. It runs from Daly City in the north through the Peninsula and beyond.
  • The freeway system in Santa Clara county is augmented by its expressway system.

North Bay

  • US-101 (Redwood Highway) and CA-1 - Continue north of San Francisco, crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and connecting San Francisco to Marin and Sonoma counties, and eventually to Oregon.
  • California State Route 29 - Four-lane expressway connecting Interstate 80 in Vallejo in Solano County as Sonoma Boulevard to the towns of American Canyon and Napa. North of Napa, SR-29 is a two-lane rural highway through the towns of the Napa Valley, California's Wine Country, to Clear Lake.
  • California State Route 37 - Four- and two-lane expressway connecting US-101 in Novato with Interstate 80 in Vallejo, along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay.
  • California State Route 12 - A highway connecting Santa Rosa with suburbs to the west and Interstate 80 through Sonoma and Napa to the east.

East Bay

Bridges

Due to the central location of the San Francisco Bay, several bridges cross the Bay or Bay tributaries.

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