Originally Posted by
Zorak
They do, but only after 9pm weekdays or on weekends on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line (yellow). The Richmond/Daly City (red) line doesn't, ever. Why, I don't know, but I'm willing to bet someone here does...
I think it's because SFO is out of the way, and they don't want to slow down the journey for people going from Millbrae to downtown SF. Nights and weekends there are less commuters and more airport traffic, so it may make more sense.
Originally Posted by
Javelin
[*]Milbrae is a future high speed rail station on the CA high speed rail project. It would be inconceivable that the shiny new $68 billion train will drop you off at Millbrae and then require two BART segments to get to SFO, so hopefully this will be fixed soon, especially with the strong possibility that CAHSRA will build the SF-Bakersfield segment first now.[/LIST]
I don't think HSR is really designed for airport traffic. I think it's intended to avoid the need for intrastate flights, not to help people get to the airport. However, it may help people avoid short flights, for example someone in the Central Valley could take the train to SFO instead of flying FAT-SFO.