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The Millbrae stop is a very short transfer to SFO.

The Millbrae station is a gigantic clusterfuck and is best ignored.

BART's kind of remedied the situation, but for a while their operational costs were so high that there was no direct SFO-Millbrae service during the day. You had to backtrack all the way to San Bruno. By 2019 there was a "shuttle", and now the red (but not yellow!) line serves SFO and Millbrae.

In addition the Caltrain/BART connection at Millbrae requires a lot of walking. It's tedious and poorly designed.

A friend from Japan landed at SFO on a Sunday and figured they would take the train to Mountain View. It took them four hours to take one BART to San Bruno, a second to Millbrae and a Caltrain to MV.

Part of that is because there is only one train per hour on Sunday, and its a slow local. The latter is going to improve a bit soon since electrification is nearly done, but I somewhat doubt service is going to get much more frequent on the weekend.

The BART connection does suck, but I dont know how it look 2 hours to get to the Caltrain Station.

This is true. I am intentionally flying in to San Jose on Monday because I hate the Millbrae disaster of "which train goes where".

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