Comments on: BART to vote on Oakland airport connector http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/12/08/bart-to-vote-on-oakland-airport-connector/ Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DensityDuck http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/12/08/bart-to-vote-on-oakland-airport-connector/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 DensityDuck Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:27:53 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=844#comment-4764 Update: due to multiple lawsuits filed by minority groups, BART has cancelled this project.

]]> By: MikeTeeVee http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/12/08/bart-to-vote-on-oakland-airport-connector/comment-page-1/#comment-4740 MikeTeeVee Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:44:25 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=844#comment-4740 Even worse, it’s $6 EACH WAY between the Coliseum and OAK, or $12 round trip. Plus a BART ticket. Plus $5/day for Airport/Long Term parking at most BART stations.

For comparison, offsite AAA parking rate near OAK is $6/day at Expresso.

]]> By: DensityDuck http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/12/08/bart-to-vote-on-oakland-airport-connector/comment-page-1/#comment-4739 DensityDuck Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:24:32 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=844#comment-4739 six bucks PLUS a BART ticket? Jesus. You might as well just drive there and park!

]]> By: John Knox White http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/12/08/bart-to-vote-on-oakland-airport-connector/comment-page-1/#comment-4723 John Knox White Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:11:03 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=844#comment-4723 Oakland City Council Vice President sent a letter to the BART Board today reiterating that the Council has only supported a project that has an intermediate stop and has completed a fare equity analysis. As neither of of these issues have been dealt with, the Council has not supported the project that will be discussed tomorrow.

Much of the support cited by BART was in place before major changes were made to the project.

The project that is being presented to the board for adoption tomorrow has been presented to the BART Board in closed session, but has never been presented to the public. It is the result of an bid process that used minimum standards of service that were never discussed in public, but changed during the bid process with no announcement whatsoever, so as to allow the winning bidder to qualify.

While the BART Board my decide to support the project, they should do so only after a public presentation of the project and a thorough, independent analysis of what they are spending $492 million in public funds on. To date, this has not been presented. Staff have spoken in generalities and used 8-year old data based on operational characteristics that have changed tremendously.

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