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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming you are talking about more San Ramon than Brentrwood (the road to Brentwood is terrible and known as "blood alley" because of the accidents), [b]the google estimate is between 55 min and 1 hour 50 min to get from San Ramon to the NASA Ames. [/b] It will be unpleasant to do this drive regularly. Yes, people do it. It is not great though. The thing about the big tech companies is that they 1.compensate well, 2. have benefits like free food 3. run big commuting luxury buses with wifi.

I don't know if NASA runs buses from the Amtrak/ACE station called Great America Station (Santa Clara) but if it does (and some tech companies in that area do) then that would open Pleasanton and other stops on the Altamont Corridor Express.  [/quote]

Not during rush hour, though--if you change the departure time to between 4 and 6 pm, you get 1 hour 15 min- 2 hours 20 min. And if you leave between 7 and 8 am, you get 1-2 hours. That's the issue--outside of rush hour, the two aren't that far apart. But it's a beast of a commute if you have typical working hours. If you can timeshift to arrive quite early and get home late (or go in late and get home late, perhaps) you can make it more workable, but it isn't a lifestyle I'd choose voluntarily, especially not on $135K. [/quote]

You are right. The departure time for the 50 min - 1 hr 50 min was at 7 am using google. Going back home has a lot more variability and can be much longer.  I have friends who do the reverse commute (going against traffic) and even then it is long, and they leave at 5 am to do it.  [/quote]

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