Assorted knowledge from one with a foot on either side of the bay at 14:00

Driving
1. During rush hour, just stay in the same lane on the 80 going east (out of the city), as long as it's not the rightmost lane (the one that people force themselves into after zooming by traffic in the exit lane). Everything gets faster once you get on the bridge, especially after treasure island.

2. Certain streets have timed lights so you never have to stop. Franklin, Fell and Oak: 25mph. Sunset and Great Highway (both directions): 30 mph.

2.a) coming up Sunset at night: if you get caught at the first red light (after the turn), you will also be caught at the immediate next one. But if you accelerate to at least 50 mph between the two, you will make the second and all consequent green lights (coast back down to 30mph!)

3. Going to the outer Sunset, with no traffic, going 280 ->brotherhood -> sunset is faster than 80/101->fell.

3.a) At night, do not speed on 101 south. You can speed on 280 south.

3.b) cops often wait after the turn on the bridge around Treasure Island.

4. Do not ever go up College St during rush hour. Even walking is faster. Instead, continue up Claremont and Piedmont to get to campus.

5. The 24->80 merging section is the worst designed piece of highway ever. As soon as possible after the turn, get to the leftmost lane (if going to the bridge). You can go back to the fastpass lane after it splits to 80 and 580.

6. Going to University is faster via Oxford than Shattuck. (tip from Glenda Tam)

Parking
7. Only "I" parking is free on Saturday. Not D.
5.a) the north (left) side of Dwight st, after college, is I, but the right side is D.

8. Arrive between 5 and 6pm on Friday. It is after people leave for the weekend and before all the people coming for evening stuff arrive.

9. No one ever parks on Dwight and Piedmont/warring, but it's all I up there.

10. There are segments of Ashby near Fulton that you can park forever.

11. You can park on Campus on the weekends (for about $1.50/hr)! Perfect for hitting up grad receptions but not parking super far away.