BART is easy to use. Trying to go anywhere else BART itself doesn't serve can be a little challenging. See my comment above about the Balkan States of Transit in the Bay Area. The idea of integrating transit seems to be a Funny Foreign Idea that is not in fashion in these parts.
Things are better than they were ten years ago, but only a little bit. For instance, you still can't get from the Capitol Corridor/ACE line to San Jose Airport unless you do a very cumbersome double transfer. You used to be able to do it from ACE, but they no longer stop at Santa Clara/El Camino Real station, and won't for years until the station is rebuilt. (The underlying reason appears to do with the track layout and who owns which track -- Amtrak/ACE trains interfere with Caltrain trains if they cross over to a track with a passenger platform.) It was bad enough when you had to use a bus transfer the way you do to/from Oakland, but a double-transfer is too much for me, and I'm a transit enthusiast.
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Things are better than they were ten years ago, but only a little bit. For instance, you still can't get from the Capitol Corridor/ACE line to San Jose Airport unless you do a very cumbersome double transfer. You used to be able to do it from ACE, but they no longer stop at Santa Clara/El Camino Real station, and won't for years until the station is rebuilt. (The underlying reason appears to do with the track layout and who owns which track -- Amtrak/ACE trains interfere with Caltrain trains if they cross over to a track with a passenger platform.) It was bad enough when you had to use a bus transfer the way you do to/from Oakland, but a double-transfer is too much for me, and I'm a transit enthusiast.