I was going to mention the 22 Jun opening of the SFO station but when I re-read the original e-mail, he was talking about going between OAK and SF downtown. Besides, based upon their previous record, I don't give the SFO BART station opening up more than 50/50 odds. David R. http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://www.secure-skies.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Wright" <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] New US Airports > The BART link to SFO opens June 22nd. It will be interesting to see how > viable that is. > > Personally, when traveling to San Francisco on business, I never had any > problems flying into SFO. It was consistently about a 20-minute cab ride > from the airport to the Embarcadero Center (and vice versa) even at rush > hour. > > I only took BART to OAK once and it was a little slower than I would have > liked, but I got to the airport in about 40 minutes. I wanted to catch AS > flight 261 from SFO to SEA that day, but when I called Alaska Airlines, they > said it had mechanical problems and was diverting to LAX instead of SFO. I > figured OAK was a better bet. Little did I know at the time. :( > > Jon > -- > Jon Wright > mailto:jwright@xxxxxxxxxxx > 425-635-0338 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Ross" <damiross2@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 5:07 PM > Subject: Re: New US Airports > > > > No. Currently, you need to take a bus from OAK to the nearest BART station > > (10 to 20 minutes; for some stupid reason BART stops at the Coliseum, 2 > > miles from the airport). Then, you take BART to SF. This is about 20-30 > > minutes, depending on where you are going. Still, it beats going from SFO > > to downtown SF.