Originally Posted by
returnoftheyeti
The real issue with a bike/ped path into San Francisco is how high the bridge is above ground when it gets to the city. Whatever they do has to accommodate bikes and people, as well as be ADA compliant. Its really hard to build a ramp 40+ feet in the air, and there is nowhere to build it.
That's certainly an issue, but even without that problem this would be an enormously expensive project. There's no room for this on the bridge now, so it would be a whole new structure on one side of it. I love riding the path to the island from Oakland, but I have doubts that a path from the island to SF will ever happen. Maybe a little more likely is ferry service from the SW corner of Treasure Island to SF and/or a cycling shuttle bus. It's a pretty long distance to cover, and usually with a headwind going west, so there probably wouldn't be too my bike commuters.