Train Station Transfers — Emeryville Station

Meeting a train at Emeryville Station

The Bay Area's principal Amtrak station, with a bus connection into San Francisco.

Worth knowing. For Napa, a car from Emeryville is about an hour and avoids both bridges in the wrong direction.

Rail schedules slip. We track the service by number, hold thirty minutes of complimentary wait from the actual arrival, and — at the larger stations — meet you on the concourse with a name board rather than leaving you to find a car in a pickup lane you have never used.

Why the train is often the better leg

On the Northeast Corridor and the Florida Brightline route, rail frequently beats flying door to door once security and taxi queues are counted. The weak link is the last mile at each end, and replacing that with a chauffeured car — booked at a fixed fare, tracked to the arrival — is the whole point of this service.

Onward in Oakland

Oakland International is the practical arrival for Berkeley, the East Bay, and a surprising amount of the Peninsula at rush hour, when the bridge crossing is shorter than the drive up the 101. It is also a quieter, faster airport to be collected from than SFO.

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