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Go,go, GO CAR!
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By Car: parking secrets: Chinatown and Financial District
  • By Skylink on March 1, 2005
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  • If you park in Chinatown or the Financial District, you probably have to park in a garage. This is sometimes costly. It is not unheard of to pay more than $20 a day for parking. Occasionally there are a few open parking spaces on the street east of Chinatown and North of the Financial District. Try driving around the Sansome or Montgomery Streets north of Embarcadero Center (the John Portman designed buildings that are concrete, tall, thin, and each building looks like wafers bound together but not completely lined up. There are 4 of these tall buildings. You can see them on my San Francisco home page to the left of the Transamerica Pyramid).

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    By Car: Renting a Car = Frustration
  • By Parklife on June 26, 2003
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  • By Car - San Francisco
    by Parklife
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    If you're planning to stay in the San Francisco area while you're here, do not spend the money to rent a car. Driving in the city isn't particularly fun (and not for the timid... have you seen some of these streets??) and parking is horrendous (both finding and prices). If you're planning on getting out of town, then the car can be rented for only those days (or you can take one of the tours of wine country, etc...). Oh, and don't park on the sidewalk (like this picture), you see a lot of people doing it but it is illegal and you can get a ticket.

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    By Car: Scenic Hwy 1 South of the city
  • Updated By Ewingjr98 on November 17, 2006
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  • By Car - San Francisco
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    Known in southern California as the Pacific Coast Highway, in the central part of the state as the Cabrillo Highway, and in the north as Shoreline Highway. It traverses some of the most beautiful parts of the Pacific Coast including Half Moon Bay, Pacifica, and Pigeon Point Lighthouse State Historic Park, all within an hour south of San Francisco.

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    By Car: The Streets of San Francisco
  • By altizachen on September 19, 2004
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  • The real Streets of San Francisco - San Francisco
    The real Streets of San
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    by altizachen
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    Many people say that driving in San Francisco is somewhat difficult; in reality it’s not. If you have ever done any city driving you will find that San Francisco is one of the easiest cities to navigate through. There are two main streets in San Francisco that can get you all over town. From north to south is Market St. and from east to west is Geary Blvd. Remember the difference between the numbered streets (9th St. and 9th Ave. or 19th St. and 19th Ave.) the numbered streets and number avenues have no relation. All numbered streets are all running off of Market St. and Mission St. (the downtown, Mission, and Castro) and the Avenues are all crossing Geary Blvd. (the Richmond District). Numbered avenues are north to south and the numbered streets are east to west. Just watch for “one way” streets!

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    By Car: Buy A Good Map!
  • By mcpangie on January 6, 2004
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  • Bay Bridge - San Francisco
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    One evening, late evening, I enterred San Francisco on my way north along the coast. I wanted to cross the Golden Gate. But somehow I got all mixed up trying to follow signs. I blamed it on the atlas I was following, because it just didn't have enough detail. Anway, I ended up crossing the Bay Bridge and toured some neighborhoods I didn't really want to tour in the wee hours.

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    By Car: Rental cars in San Francisco
  • By skib on May 25, 2004
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  • We had a rental car in San Francisco which was nice. Traffic didn't get out of control, but we didn't drive much either. We had free parking at our hotel and only drove to places that had free parking or were really far away. otherwise walking, taxi, and bus were our best bet.

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    By Car: Our car for 4 weeks
  • Updated By GUYON on July 24, 2004
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  • Our Pontiac Sunfire - San Francisco
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    We have searched the best solution for the car. The lowest price found from France was 1148$ for a Compact car for 4 weeks, tax and insurance include. Finally, I discover Holyday Autos on Internet. They rent the cars of the other rent-a-car companies but cheaper. The idea is to make some saving on insurance. A comprehensive cover worths rougthly the same amount than the renting itself. Theft and collision damage are not really covered by an insurance company. The rent-a-car Cy prefers to self-insured them and to received a sum from the client for the waiver. HA makes mandatory the underwriting of the comprehensive coverage and reduces itsprice. To avoid to be in competition with their partners, HA renunces to rent to locals. So I paid 810$ for the car on the picture, with SLI, CDW, TP (with deductible, without personal accident, luggage and cancellation, all insurances provided by our VISA). The car provided was given by NATIONAL. Only concern : I prefer a 4 doors car even it is a compact...

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    By Car: hertz
  • By dila on August 3, 2004
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  • before we left san francisco we picked up our rental car at hertz in masonstreet. this was walking distance from our hotel. powell hotel powell street. we allready payed in the netherlands.

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    By Car: Pls. hold back road rage!
  • By coolpanda87 on February 22, 2004
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  • coming soon...

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    By Car: Need a cab in San Francisco?
  • Updated By RblWthACoz on December 23, 2005
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  • . Luxor Cab 415-282-4141 City Wide Dispatch 415-920-0700 Yellow Cab 415-626-2345 Yellow Cab 415-333-3333

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