San Bruno BART Station

Reliable for airport or long-​term parking, if your flight isn’t before BART hours. Conveniently located next to a mall with a Target.

Horrific announcements protocol inside Bart trains and on stations: messages announced as doors close immediately; bad quality speakers impossible to understand what announcer says. Bad signs, insufficient ticket dispensers at Milbrae station. Wasted time going to airport as announcer of SFO train only announced to exit at San Bruno station if going to Milbrae as doors were closing. Don’t use this service if can afford an über. Never again.

Located next to the Tanforan Mall can be good and bad for this BART station.
Good: It is conveniently located steps from the Tanforan Mall’s food court and theater entrance. Let me stress that again «food court and theater» entrance, which leads to the bad.
Bad: Because it is right next to the «food court and theater» entrance, you can see trash all over the outside this BART. Wrappers, paper trays, popcorn. You name it and they’re all over the floor. This only happens in the weekends though. During the weekdays it is usually clean. Still, that doesn’t excuse BART from making sure they get some extra help on taking care of the place.
The station’s parking lot is small. The other reviewer that warned about windows being broken is correct. I’ve seen broken glass on the floor so don’t let anything visible for thieves to target, despite the station to be right next to the police station.

Cleanest BART station on the peninsula and the public bathrooms there are the cleanest of most public bathrooms I have used anywhere. I always see the guy who cleans there is always working hard there. Props to that guy plus he’s Niners/​Giants fan. Escalators always working. Got a mall right next to it too.

I’m a fan of public transportation period. I was a little confused as to how to purchase the ticker from the kiosk, but eventually I figured it out. There is a manned booth to purchase directly from a human, which in retrospect would of been a better option since the trip was 8.65 and I paid a tenner to make things go quicker. One item, if you never have done this before, you need to keep your ticket to enter and to EXIT at your destination. My Suzie had a panic attack once we got to Powell Station since we couldn’t find her ticket. It eventually appeared in the bottom of the purse. We were staying at the Grand Hyatt, so this was convenient getting there quickly without traffic or the price of a cab. However, lugging a 53lb suitcase up the stairs rather than taking the elevator to Market street was a bad decision.

The tiny parking completely fills up around 9:00 am.
Trash flies under your feet and in your face when you exit the parking elevator. I should take a picture of that for the «storefront photo» one of these days.
You park in one of those «after 10:00 am» spaces a few minutes early, and have a ticket on your windshield when you come back.

This bart station is very nice and clean. It’s right next to tanforan shopping center. There’s lots of parking in the bart parking structure. There’s also buses that stop near here. It’s across from the San Bruno police station.

Closest BART station I know of that’s near a Barnes and Noble. Great stop if you need to pick up something to read before getting to SFO if you have a little time to spare.

BART is BART. What can you say. Public transportation is ok at times and not so ok at times. The trains are always 2−3min late.

BART comes,
BART goes,
Just another stop, but at LEAST it stops across the street from Tanforan.
Meh.

This is the easily the BEST Bart station in the system, hands down. In honor of the upcoming New Year (2014), let’s count it down:
10. Cleanest bathrooms EVER. No blood, no needles, no feces = no problem!
9. The bathroom comes stocked with toilet seat covers AND toilet paper! That’s right, BOTH.
8. San Bruno is the second stop on the way to the city during the morning commute (Millbrae is the first). Read: You are going to get a seat, maybe!
7. Last time I checked, there were no naked hippies doing cartwheels in the foyer of the San Bruno station. What you know about that, 16^th Street & 24^th Street Mission stops?
6. Similarly, no one departing from the San Bruno line climbs on top of trains causing system wide delays due to mental health issues. In your face, MacArthur Street station. In your face.
5. San Bruno has yet to have a Hazmat team show up to clean out human waste from under our escalators. You’re f%#&ing out, Civic Center. Our escalators don’t work because they are legitimately broken!
4. Right behind Tanforan Mall, in case you want a Cinnabon.
3. Sorry your elevator has been out of service for 4 months, North Berkeley, but San Bruno’s elevator is in working condition!
2. Need to purchase some sticky icky icky before you board? San Bruno’s got you covered. Simply stand in front of the Bart station.
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1. NO Bart police presence! Yay yay.

$ 5 just to leave sfo
$ 2 to get off here from SFO
Shopping center near by

MUNI Stinks, BART Rules.
This place was clean and not overpacked. I got on and got to sit down which was nice. No sitting on Muni unless you’re older or the first person on.
Clean for what it is. Can’t complain.

Clean and not overly packed, what more could I ask of a Bart station?
I could ask for a lot more but let’s be realistic, this is as good as it gets.

I hate to do this to an all-​around decent-​seeming BART station, but San Bruno sucks. Not the city. I have nothing against the City of San Bruno. In fact, I hope its residents are somehow eventually vindicated and that PG&E actually pays for the people it murdered there in 2010. Also, the school and church I attended growing up were named after St. Bruno of Cologne, so I’ve got at least something in common with our fair peninsular neighbors to the southish.
But this BART station is bad.
It’s the SFO transfer station. That’s fine, but when you’re a transfer station, shouldn’t your platform be fully covered? I’ve never been here in the rain, but I can imagine it being very uncomfortable to have to avoid the wet parts of the platform with dozens of your closest complete strangers. Also, the platform has too few benches. Again, if people are going to be waiting for the next SFO-​bound train, you should give them somewhere to sit. And God forbid you should actually sit at one of the few benches, because they’re right below the PA loudspeakers, whose volume is always turned up to a ridiculous level. And louder isn’t always clearer, as most people who have spent any time riding public transportation are well aware.
So thanks, BART, for making me stand, (potentially) getting my luggage wet, and making my ears ring.

I ended up here trying to get from SFO to Menlo Park. I was confused about the double-​BART-​connection system, but managed. This station was extra pleasant (I’m used to Millbrae) because
1) It was inside and not cold and windy
2) I didn’t have to run up/​down a few flights of stairs to get to the other track

Good location right behind the Tanforan mall. Not as dirty as most BART stations… also less crowded. But be careful parking here! Don’t let the police station next door lull you into a false sense of security. Break-​ins are very prevalent here, so be sure to hide anything that looks even remotely valuable.
Also, since when did parking go up to $ 2/​day? Is it still $ 1/​day at the SSF station? Screw that, park at Target instead.

This is my secret gateway into San Francisco city centre.
The prices demanded by city centre hotels are nothing short of criminal, especially when they demand extortionate amounts to park your car on top of the basic room rate and they also often lack basic amenities like free internet access
That’s why I stay near the airport and drive and park at San Bruno BART station — there’s a giant parking structure and I’ve never had problems finding a space. $ 2 daily parking fee — yes, commuters in England, read and weep!
The station is a minute’s walk away as is the Tanforan Mall and Century Cinema.
Only downer is that the Clipper card wasn’t available from here for some reason.

This station is very conveniently located behind the Tanforan Shopping Mall. The station has plenty of bike parking, a convenient drop off zone, and is served by a giant parking structure. This is the perfect place to park your car if you are going to go to SFO. Why spend $ 15 a day for long term parking at SFO when you can park for free (weekends), or for $ 6 /​day on the weekdays and take BART ($ 6.90 from Ssn Bruno to SFO).
There are good pedestrian connections between the mall and the station. They removed parking on one side of the Target parking structure to accomodate a painted pedestrian walkway… good stuff!

What I feared might come to a sad ending for my brief weekend stint proved to be quite the opposite! I hopped on Bart from SFO to find my car still in the San Bruno Bart parking garage with no tickets or broken windows!
For over 3 nights stay, $ 14 Bart transit + $ 6 per day of parking came out to far less than even the cheapest off-​airport parking site. Looks like a perfectly sound option for my wheels when I’m away from them!