INRIX’s analysts found car volume on Highway 101 between Sunnyvale and San Jose is down about 40%, double the decline in traffic on busy freeways in San Francisco and the East Bay. It’s a different story on the Bay Bridge, where the tolls record more than 100,000 cars on a typical weekday now, about 85% of the volume they saw before the pandemic. The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge gets about two-thirds as many cars. The Dumbarton Bridge, which touches down near the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, now typically sees less than 25,000 cars pass through its toll plaza each weekday - about 60% of pre-pandemic levels. With a glut of white-collar, telecommute-friendly jobs, remote work still seems to be especially strong in Silicon Valley. The Bay Area’s tech firms were among the first big employers to tell workers to stay home last March. Silicon Valley traffic is especially light Throughout the pandemic, travel to parks is down by less than 10%. The number of trips to parks throughout those five counties surged above pre-pandemic levels from June through August, before receding again. Google found travel to parks, like travel everywhere else, fell during the lockdowns - but when restrictions eased last summer, people rushed to get outside.
So where are people going? Try your local park. The decline is even more severe in the region’s former job powerhouse, San Francisco, where 55% fewer people have been going to workplaces in recent months.
There has been a large and sustained drop in travel to workplaces, which according to mobility data tracked by Google, is down by 45% across Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Downtowns are ghost towns - but parks are popular Compare that to before the pandemic, when the corridor was considered congested for three hours each morning. Along another notorious freeway, westbound Interstate 80 from Highway 4 in Martinez to the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, traffic these days never gets bad enough to hit the “congestion” stage, with speeds slowing to a low point of 40 miles per hour during a brief morning rush.
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