Comments on: News Flash: BART director doesn’t want to raise fares to the airport (as long as the airport isn’t OAK)

By: eric

eric — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:26:28 +0000

California was certainly in fragments when I was there last weekend. What a weird place LA is. Everything public (streets, sidewalks, parks, public buildings, vistas, etc.) looks crappy, and yet there is more private sumptuousness than anyplace I’ve ever been. Fragmented is a good word for it. Only the weather was whole.

By: wordnerd

wordnerd — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:08:08 +0000

Is it all moot now, given the budget disaster? Is Califrnia in fragments?

By: avoice

avoice — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:34:57 +0000

As a resident of So Cal, I have to ask myself — figuratively, of course, since I really am not posing a question to myself — how will this outrage affect me? Is this really a question or a statement? The answer: It’s not going to have much impact on me. Therefore, I leave the details to you all. Good luck and my best wishes. If they ever do anything similar in Los Angeles, I will, however, expect you EastBay’ans to take to the barricades immediately.

By: ng

ng — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:45:31 +0000

Oaklandhappenings: I’m glad to hear your optimism, and I noticed a lot of the improvements you mentioned when I flew in and out of OAK early this month. I just hope they keep all aspects of it ‘user-friendly’.

By: oaklandhappenings

oaklandhappenings — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:03:35 +0000

ng, no, they are NOT trying to close the airport. OAK has been around since the 20′s, and even just acknowledged Southwest’s 20th anniversary there Friday. Airline expansion is happening this year: Alligiant Air (formerly servicing SFO) to smaller city airports, including service to Eugene Or., starting June 8th; Mexican carrier ‘Volaris’ beings service to Toluca/Mexico City and Guadalajara July 2nd (with OAK as the only airport so far with nonstop service to/from the latter for the airline); Alaska Air starting nonstop service to Kona and Maui in November (the only Bay Area airport for which Alaska is providing trans-pacific service to/from), and there may be even more new things to come. Terminal 1 is getting a slow but sure facelift, and more new food concessions will finally be open by summertime. Among other improvements, The Port of Oakland should–and likely will–not let BART screw them over.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:11:27 +0000

This is idiotic. Public transit should charge merely nominal ticket prices. Good thing we have bikes…

By: ng

ng — Sat, 16 May 2009 23:41:57 +0000

Between the BART increase and the ticket surcharge, people like me might choose to fly into SFO instead of OAK. Are they trying to close the airport?