Thanks for the updates, I’ve been using OAK recently, but will be using SFO again soon so this is useful.
Can’t help but think this could’ve been avoided if years ago people didn’t get hung up on “BART direct to SFO” and instead they built an air train out to the main BART line. Oh well.
They do seem to change the Milbrae/SFO pattern every couple years, but it seems like there’s no real great answers. It’s hard because trains have to reverse out of SFO (thus there’s a long waiting period as the operator walks from one end of the train to the other), so it makes sense for it to be an endpoint. But then Milbrae has the same issue so… 🤷
We'll just agree to disagree on this one. From what station should the airtrain have connected? Millbrae? South SF? Much easier to be able to walk if desired to any point in the airport from the BART station with no connection.
You may recall, once up on a time, there was an SFO <-> Millbrae line. It just went back and forth. However, whatever set of rocket scientists decided that was a good idea failed to take the BART train operators' contract (that was in effect at that time) into account because (as I recall) there were mandatory rest periods and/or other relevant work rules which applied at the end of a line.