How we use bikes and BART.
There are 2 halves to all deliveries;
the pickup and the delivery. Although it may be an easy drive to the
pickup half of a delivery, it doesn't mean that driving to the delivery point
will be easy at all. That's especially true if you're driving into downtown
San Francisco! Because we deliver so many packages between San Francisco and the East Bay, we've opted to use the delivery method
that has proven most effective when delivering to downtown San Francisco:
the bike messenger.
Many delivery firms use vehicles to handle your transbay deliveries.
Unfortunately, it's sometimes very difficult to get a package to its destination
in downtown San Francisco using a car. That's why bicycle messengers continue
to be the most effective delivery vehicles for small packages within San Francisco: they bypass most traffic congestion, and can always find parking
at their destination. We treat your San Francisco deliveries as if they were any other local San Francisco delivery.
Using BART, our
messengers shuttle your packages to and from downtown, and then to rush them
to their destination without wasting any time in traffic along the way, or
looking for parking when we arrive. In many cases, it takes longer to move
a package from the Bay Bridge off ramp to it's destination in downtown San
Francisco by car than it does to get to drive between the east bay and the
City.
According to their website, "BART's basic mission is to
provide safe, reliable, economical, and energy-efficient means of transportation".
[the courier guys] do the same for your parcel deliveries. Remember,
at 33 mph (the average speed of a BART train), your San Francisco deliveries
are much closer than you'd think - especially if you have to brave
traffic to drive them there! Additional facts:
- 33 mph - average speed of
BART train
- 3.5 miles - length of the
transbay tube
- 5 minutes - our average wait time for a train at West Oakland or Embarcadero Stations
(the first and last stops on either side of the Bay)
- 10 minutes - our average travel time between West Oakland and Embarcadero Stations
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