Patty Winter wrote:
> In article <1148067941.234190.174490@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
> PeterL wrote:
> >
> >Charles Lewis wrote:
> >> I am wondering if it is possible
> >> to take a train or BART to a small town in between and rent a car from
> >> there, which would make driving easier.
> >
> >A small town would severly limit your choices for rentals. Maybe you
> >should think about Fresno, a medium sized city close to Yosemite.
>
> And they would get to Fresno how? Either a train (if available) or
> a bus would take them much longer than BARTing to SFO to pick up a
> rental car.
>
The OP wants to make "driving easier." Going to Fresno would eliminate
most of the driving. They can take BART to Emeryville Amtrak station,
then train to Fresno.
> BART goes through plenty of populated areas before it gets out toward
> Livermore, but I don't know which of them might have car-rental agencies
> nearby. If you can't rent a car in the city, then try calling the major
> agencies and asking whether they have facilities near any of the BART
> stations along the route that goes through Oakland and out to Dublin.
>
>
> Patty
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