# Help me plan a California Highway 1 road trip **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-plan-a-california-highway-1-road-trip/846926 "2020-01-25T00:00:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
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> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I don’t know why I didn’t think of that route before. I think it’s just because from limited past experience I’ve found that traffic approacuing the Bay Bridge pretty much always sucks, no matter what time of day I’ve been there. So I usually try to avoid it, which I guess has become so much of a habit that I didn’t even think of it as a potential route. Ususlly when I visit San Francisco I either park in Walnut Creek and take BART, or just not drive at all and take Amtrak to Richmond and BART from there. My impression, it’s only really that bad during “rush hour”, at which time all those freeways turn into long-term parking lots. During other hours, it’s not all that bad except on the stretch of westbound-I-80 through Berkeley, which is bumper-to-bumper 24/7/365. (well, 24/7/366 this year.) Once you get through that, it should be okay. Fun fact: I-80 and I-580 merge and later diverge, such that the stretch through Berkeley is both of those freeways at once. But their official designated directions are opposite: So when you’re on westbound I-80 you’re simultaneously on eastbound I-580 and vice-versa. So either way you’re traveling west and east at the same time. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-plan-a-california-highway-1-road-trip/846926)._