http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/ Transportation and urban planning in the San Francisco Bay Area Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-9942 Mon, 16 May 2011 01:25:23 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-9942 [...] of public funds to stop at this point.”  But by any worthwhile metric, the OAC will provide effectively no benefit over a less extravagant alternative bus project that could have been built for a fraction of the [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-9868 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:29:13 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-9868 [...] transportation project.  Moreover, as the Oakland Airport Connector demonstrates, projects can change significantly in cost and scope if they are left in limbo for years after being cleared.  Yet Option 1 shields those changes from [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-9786 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:34:03 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-9786 [...] stimulus package?  Even as some commissioners acknowledged that the Airport Connector’s escalating cost and dwindling list of benefits made it a less convincing investment than it might have once been, the majority articulated the [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-9289 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:53:57 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-9289 [...] but misguided advocacy of the senseless Oakland Airport Connector, coupled with an insensitive brushing aside of well-reasoned opposition expressed by members of the [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-8181 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:33:02 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-8181 [...] a $12 round trip fare (a nontrivial percentage of daily wages for some airport employees) but without providing compelling transit improvements that would justify that steep fare increase. As we observed in September 2009, when the complaint [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-8007 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:08:46 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-8007 [...] we have remarked many times before, the OAC project has changed significantly over the years, and in all possible ways for the worse. One key change has been the removal of intermediate [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-7955 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:22:58 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-7955 [...] the bargain, there would still be something ironically tragic about cannibalizing BRT to build the worst-than-useless airport [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-7735 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:31:37 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-7735 [...] is a more cost-effective enhanced bus, would cost a fraction of the OAC to build. And yet, it is a superior transit project — since its fare would be much less than $6 or even free, and it would include an [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-7694 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:57:55 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-7694 [...] air traffic at Oakland Airport — are reflected in the 2009 ridership projections, which were revised downward to between 3,770 and 4,670 total riders by the year 2020 (compared to 13,540 riders projected in [...]

]]> http://transbayblog.com/2009/07/21/disconnect-the-connector/#comment-7681 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:58:35 +0000 http://transbayblog.com/?p=4551#comment-7681 [...] rehash all these details again, but if you haven’t done so already, please read about them in this earlier post. The details are important, because they also speak to the Connector’s potential TIGER and [...]

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