TA K I N G C A LT R A I N BABY BU LLET EXPRESS FROM SAN FRANCISCO T O PA L O A LT O
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Contents SAN FRANCISCO TO TWENTY SECOND STREET
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TWENTY SECOND STREET TO MILLBRAE
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MILLBRAE TO REDWOOD CITY
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REDWOOD CIT Y TO MENLO PARK
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ME NL O PA R K T O PA L O A LT O
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Begins the journey with Baby Bullet
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This is my first time taking Caltrain from San francisco to Palo Alto. I use Baby Bullet express service for the trip because it can make a trip from San Francisco to San Jose in an hour. The top speed is the same as Caltrain’s local and limited-stop trains (79 miles an hour), but Baby Bullet trains can make up time by stopping at just a few stations. I will observe and record things, people, and situations that I’ve seen in Baby Bullet. Then, I will interpret everything into typography and photography.
a v ergage passengers per train
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R A N K 1: S A N F R A N C I S C O R ANK 2: PALO ALTO
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C ON V E R S AT ION
I observed that some people had a conversation seem like they know each other. What I heard was about the technology things. Although he is a senior, up to date with technology is necessary and worth for his life.
A Caltrain car manufactured by Nippon Sharyo.
JPB 4013
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I have no idea where it came from? Along the way from San Francisco to 22 nd St., I saw big piles of old steel trash mix with graffiti art on some piece. It might look dirty for someone. When it stacks up together, I think that it could be a piece of art for me.
I shot this picture from the opposite track. While I'm going out, someone is coming to the city.
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Dogpatch
At its peak of activity during WWII, more than 18,000 people worked at Pier 70 each day. Buildings ranged in height up to 92 feet and were densely packed to service the intense shipbuilding activity. Although that would have made the building onsite impossible to build, the new height limit assumed continued industrial use, not a new connection to the waterfront for locals. Today, Pier 70 Today is a mix of vacant land, deteriorating buildings, storage and staging areas that restrict public activity and waterfront access behind chain linked and barbed wire fences.
PA S T A N D PR E SE N T
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The The number number of of bicycles bicycles is is limited limited to to 40 40 per per gallery gallery car car (80 (80 bikes bikes total total for for train.) train.) There There is is no no charge charge to to bring bring aa bicycle bicycle on on board. board. Only Only single single rider rider bicycles bicycles are are permitted permitted on on trains. trains. Maximum Maximum bicycle bicycle length length is is 80 80 inches, inches, and and bikes bikes must must not not protrude protrude into into the the aisle. aisle. No No fuel fuel powered, powered, tandem tandem or or three three wheel wheel bikes bikes are are permitted. permitted. Cyclists Cyclists should should prominently prominently displayed displayed destination destination tags tags to to indicate indicate where where they they are are getting getting off off the the train. train. According According to to Caltrain’s Caltrain’s latest latest onboard onboard ridership ridership survey, survey, each each weekday weekday more more than than 5,500 5,500 bicyclists bicyclists ride ride the the train. train. While While biking biking and and taking taking public public transit transit can can work work well well together together for for first first and and last last mile mile connections, connections, as as well well as as getting getting people people out out of of their their cars cars and and off off freeways, freeways, onboard onboard capacity capacity may may be be at at its its limit limit on on Bike Bike to to Work Work Day. Day. It It helps helps new new cyclists cyclists try try out out biking biking without without the the stress stress of of finding finding space space onboard onboard
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The South San Francisco Hillside Sign is a historic sign on a hillside overlooking the city of South San Francisco in San Mateo County, California. It was created in the 1920s and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Outside the window According to the United States presidential election of 2016, some people dissatisfies the result, so they used graffiti to express their opinion.
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I ’ M L E AV I NG
Bayfront Park Beautiful scenery and fun to watch the planes take off and land every minute at San Francisco International Airport. It was not as noisy as I expected. I walked along the coast and enjoyed seeing little ducks in the water. I saw a lot of people ate, walked and rode a bike around the park. This park is peaceful and clean surroundings. When talking about f lying a plane, I appreciated the ability of pilots so much. During the f light, they are responsible for the safety of all crew and passengers on board. I think that it’s most stressful jobs for me. But if there is no pilot career, we couldn’t roam around the world at this time.
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What are they thinking?
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San Francisco/ 22nd Street/ Millbare/ Redwood City/ Menlo Park/ Palo Alto/
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The theatre was purchased by the Fox West Coast chain in 1929 and eventually renamed the Fox Theatre after a brief closing for repairs in 1950. The building, designed by noted theatre architects Reid & Reid, is a stylized Gothic design with traces of Spanish Colonial Revival ornamentation.
No longer the sleepy Redwood City of yesterday. On July 22, 2013, Redwood City Partners, LLC, received approval to construct an 8-story office building consisting of approximately 297,006 square feet of office and 5,075 square feet of retail at 900 Middlefield Road. The project is commonly known as "Crossing 900" and is the corporate headquarters for Box, as well as other technology companies. SF PA
Although the city of San Francisco recently announced new regulations to heavily fine graffiti artists who tag public property, the street art community here is still thriving. Graffiti—everything from Do Not Enter signs covered with stickers to intricate, full color murals that take up entire city blocks—can be found in every neighborhood of the city’s 49 square miles. While most people are familiar with the stunning murals in the Mission district, to experience the best of San Francisco’s street art you’ll also want to look around elsewhere. Simply walk the streets and keep your eyes peeled to discover some of the best original art pieces around; once you start to notice the city’s graff iti, new and unique pieces will pop out at you all the time. To get you started, here are ten great creations for graffiti lovers to seek out in San Francisco.
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There’s lots of impressive graffiti in San Francisco you’ve probably been missing.
They are on duty
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Station Hill Sculpture
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The wooden sculpture of a bench located near the Menlo Park Caltrain Station, commissioned in 1987 by the California Arts Council Art in Public Buildings Program. The artist who created this piece was J.B. Blunk who lived from 1926 to 2002. This artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?
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I saw many people prepared to get off the train. They moved to the front role. Also, I checked my belongings before I left the train.
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Palo Alto has been named the number f ive Digital City of its size (up to 75,000 population) by the Center for Digital Government in its annual 2016 Digital Cities Survey. The City of Palo Alto is more than one hundred year old, and is named after a majestic 1000 (not 250) year old coastal redwood tree along San Francisquito Creek, where early Spanish explorers settled. The blend of business and residential areas anchored by a vibrant downtown defines Palo Alto’s unique character. A charming mixture of old and new, Palo Alto’s tree-lined streets and historic buildings ref lect its California heritage.
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It came with high expectations SI PPI NG S OL E
Who knows, there is Blue Bottle coffee shop where consisted of the airy courtyard in Palo Alto. The coffee smooth as silk, no burnt after taste if compared with another branch in San Francisco. I can feel a relaxed atmosphere with a beautiful view of the clear blue sky. I’m pleased to say that it’s worth to visit here.
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About
Salila is MFA student in graphic design school. She likes coffee, animal, nature and challenge thing. All images were took during her first time taking Caltrain from San Francisco to Palo Alto in Fall 2016.
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