Originally Posted by
NYTA
Oakland should change the name to SF Bay/Oakland Airport . It's on the SF Bay so nobody can dispute the name. Would definitely help with marketing .
As an example on how this won't work - do you know that that PANYNJ does not advertise EWR as a NYC airport, even it is commonly accepted as a NYC airport?
Originally Posted by
Palal
The problem in the bay area is the tribalism and the fragmented management of the infrastructure - not just airport infrastructure. In a perfect world, OAK and SFO would be connected by a 20-25-min ferry, which would allow for the two airports to operate as an airport system. Given how the current management practices are set up, that won't happen any time in the future.
Not true at all.
1. The State of California controls most aspects of transportation in the Bay Area. To name a few, transportation infrastructure falls under either the MTC or Caltrans or both.
2. All public water transportation in the Bay Area is managed as a regional level.
3. Your perfect world does not exist because the demand would be way too low.
There is ferry service between SSF and Alameda Harbor Bay, which has only 1 scheduled service per day. If the demand is high enough to justify inter-airport transportation. The ferry piers would have been built/moved near both airports with significant increase in service.
Originally Posted by
ucdtim17
The problem is BART runs BART, not the airport, and BART has its own budget considerations.
It is not a standalone problem in the Bay Area.
In fact, many airport connections are not run by the airports themselves.