Coverage
Every San Mateo neighborhood, plus the neighbors.
Vans stage near Hillsdale and El Camino Real, so most of the city is about 23 minutes away. Sugarloaf and Foster City run longer, and each area page says by how much.
San Mateo neighborhoods
Inside San Mateo
Downtown & Central Park
~17 minThe blocks between the Caltrain station and Central Park: restaurants and small shops on B St and 4th Ave, apartments on the floors above them, the city garages off Main St, and the Japanese Tea Garden at the edge of the park.
Local pageHillsdale
~15 minThe district the company is named for: the shopping center, the elevated Caltrain station, apartment complexes along El Camino Real and 31st Ave, and blocks of single-story houses built in the 1950s on the streets between them.
Local pageBay Meadows
~17 minThe former racetrack between Delaware St and the rail line, built out in the last decade: apartment towers with a lobby, a package room and a garage below, rows of townhomes with roof decks, a park in the middle, an office campus at the north end and an HOA for nearly all of it.
Local pageBaywood & Aragon
~23 minThe curving streets between El Camino Real and Alameda de las Pulgas: Spanish-revival and Tudor houses from the 1920s and 30s, arched front doors with a thumb latch and a mortise case in the edge, wood side gates onto the drive, and houses that have stayed in one family for fifty years.
Local pageSan Mateo Park
~24 minThe large older houses west of El Camino Real along Crystal Springs Rd and the streets toward the Hillsborough line: 1910s to 1930s houses set back behind hedges, pedestrian gates with a keyed latch, driveway gates on an operator, and households that hand keys to a housekeeper, a gardener and a nanny.
Local pageNorth Central
~19 minThe dense flat blocks north of downtown: apartment buildings, duplexes and flats on N Humboldt St, N Claremont St and Poplar Ave, corner markets and laundromats, a renting population, and hardware that was fitted once and left.
Local pageShoreview & Coyote Point
~26 minThe flats east of US-101: single-story houses from the 1950s on the streets off Norfolk St, small workshops and warehouses toward the bay, the Coyote Point marina and park, and salt air that does things to a brass cylinder.
Local pageSugarloaf & Laurelwood
~30 minThe hills south of Highway 92 toward Sugarloaf Mountain and Laurelwood Park: winding streets off Glendora Dr and the boulevard climbing to the College of San Mateo, houses on several levels, driveway gates on an operator, and driveways long enough that the van does not always reach the door.
Local pageNearby towns
The cities beside it
Burlingame
~24 minThe city to the north: Burlingame Ave with its shops and restaurants, 1910s to 1930s houses on the streets between El Camino Real and California Dr, apartments near the Caltrain station, and the hotels along the bayfront.
Local pageFoster City
~28 minThe planned city on the bay side of the lagoon: townhome and condo complexes from the 1970s through the 1990s along Beach Park Blvd and Edgewater Blvd, each with an HOA and a rule about what a front door may look like, patio doors onto the water, and office parks along Chess Dr and around the Metro Center.
Local pageBelmont
~26 minBelmont, up Ralston Ave from El Camino Real, is reached in about twenty-six minutes at the same figures as the San Mateo flats.
Local pageHillsborough
~28 minHillsborough, uphill from San Mateo Park toward the Crystal Springs reservoir, is worked in about twenty-eight minutes at the published figures.
Local pageMillbrae
~30 minMillbrae, north past Burlingame at the BART and Caltrain interchange, is reached in about thirty minutes at the same figures.
Local page24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one figure on the work order, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Mateo and the towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor and the parts are inside the number written down on the call, and the receipt matches it line for line.