24/7 · van ~19 min out

Coverage

Every part of Pleasanton, and the towns beside it.

The whole city sits inside 19 minutes on average, from Downtown at twelve out to Ruby Hill at twenty-six, and what changes between them is how many doors a property has and how many of them are shared. Dublin, Sunol, Livermore, San Ramon, Danville and Castro Valley run longer, and each area page carries its own figure.

Pleasanton neighborhoods

Inside Pleasanton

Downtown

~12 min

The oldest working blocks in the city: brick and wood storefronts from the 1890s along Main Street, small offices and studios in the rooms above them, a single door off the sidewalk that opens onto the stair, and houses on the short streets behind the row. Twelve minutes, the shortest run on this map, because the van starts here.

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Val Vista

~15 min

Flat, even streets of seventies single-family houses: an attached garage facing the road, a service door in its side wall, a front entry under a short porch, a gate down one flank, and a patio at the back. Fifteen minutes.

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Mission Park

~16 min

Single-story houses from the sixties and early seventies on quiet streets: mature trees, wide driveways, a front entry set back under a porch, and a sliding door onto the patio at the back of nearly every house. Sixteen minutes.

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Birdland

~17 min

Smaller single-family houses on tight streets with fenced back yards and a gate down one flank of most lots. A good share of them are rented, so the keys on these blocks move more often than anywhere else in the city. Seventeen minutes.

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Vintage Hills

~19 min

Eighties houses stepped up the slope on larger parcels: longer driveways, terraced yards, a side path around to the back, and a pool behind most of them with a gate and a latch of its own. Nineteen minutes, which is exactly the citywide average.

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Stoneridge & Hacienda

~21 min

The office park and the mall: low glass-fronted buildings on landscaped parcels, suites off shared corridors, rear doors with push bars on the inside, service corridors behind the retail, and several thousand parking spaces around all of it. Twenty-one minutes.

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Foothill & Castlewood

~24 min

Big lots along the foothill roads: long driveways behind a gate at the road, houses set well back, terraced yards and retaining walls, outbuildings cut into the slope, and very little light on these roads after dark. Twenty-four minutes.

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Ruby Hill

~26 min

A gated community of large newer houses among the vineyards at the south-east edge of the city: a staffed entrance for the whole development, then long private driveways, side gates, pool gates and outbuildings behind each of them. Twenty-six minutes, the longest run inside the city.

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Around the Tri-Valley

The cities beside it

Dublin

~22 min

The city immediately north: newer single-family subdivisions with attached garages and small yards, condo and townhome blocks with gated parking along the main roads, and retail and office frontage between them. Twenty-two minutes.

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Sunol

~24 min

The village south of the city and the country parcels along the creek: a short main street, older houses on deep lots, barns and outbuildings, long driveways behind field gates, and roads with almost no lighting on them. Twenty-four minutes.

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Livermore

~26 min

The city east along the valley: a compact old downtown with shops and small offices, tracts from the fifties through the nineties spreading out from it, newer subdivisions on the south side, and vineyard and country parcels beyond the edges. Twenty-six minutes.

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San Ramon

~29 min

The city north along the valley: planned neighborhoods of newer houses on tidy streets, condo and apartment blocks with gated parking, and a large office campus with suites, corridors and rear doors of its own. Twenty-nine minutes.

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Danville

~32 min

The town at the north end of the valley: a small walkable center with shops and offices, older houses on the streets around it, and larger parcels climbing into the hills with long driveways, gates and outbuildings. Thirty-two minutes.

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Castro Valley

~35 min

The town on the far side of the hills to the west: older houses on flat streets near the main road, hillside and canyon parcels above them with long driveways and gates, and shops and small offices along the center. Thirty-five minutes.

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Pleasanton, whatever the hour, every day of the year. An entry in the tracts, a seized gate latch on a hill street, a pool gate, a safe left behind by the last owners, a shop door on Main, a car sitting in the Stoneridge lot — that is what decides the work, and the work decides the figure. You get that figure on this call with the $89 drive and the clock already inside it, and it is the figure on the invoice. Ninety days on the labor, in writing. The van is a few doors off Main.