SFist: GAHHH! Frontier Airlines Flying Right Outta Town

Steve Boland

Mon, 07 May 2007 12:28:31 -0800

David, the answers to all your questions (and more) can be found on the High-Speed Rail Authority website.

anonymous

Fri, 04 May 2007 13:52:19 -0800

Even if high-speed rail stays on the drawing board for awhile (which it might, given the opposition to it) it would be nice if they could implement something revolutionary: "Regular Speed Rail". Based on those stories I've heard about the Coast Starlight, we don't even have that yet! Since someone mentioned it, AirBART (aka "How to Spend 30-40 Min. To Go Two and a Half Miles") also needs to be put out to pasture. That direct BART spur to the airport is long overdue.

David Latterman

Fri, 04 May 2007 13:22:42 -0800

I'm totally for hi-speed rail, but I just took Southwest from Oakland to LAX for $49. From my house to BART to AirBART to the airport to LAX was around 2.5 hours. I could do it in 2 if I had to. If it's SFO to LAX once JetBlue takes hold, it's less than 2 hours for under $100. The point is, how will hi-speed rail be priced? Will it be economically viable to compete? Will it need to be subsidized by the state to be price competitive? If so, how much? Questions that will need to be answered...

andrew

Fri, 04 May 2007 11:12:52 -0800

Today if you take the train to LA you can count on either catching a bus from Bakersfield or a multi-hour delay on the Coast Starlight (which even on time takes 11 hours to get there). It's much faster to drive a car. Dave's right, we really need high speed rail.

Betsy

Fri, 04 May 2007 10:32:57 -0800

Take the train! Lower impact, environmentally speaking. I vastly prefer train stations these days, anyway..quieter, low key, not ramped up on travel hysteria like airports are.

Dave Snyder

Fri, 04 May 2007 10:17:47 -0800

Of course, when our state catches up to the rest of the advanced world, we'll have high speed rail to go back and forth to Los Angeles. The CA High Speed Rail Authority just concluded it'll be about two and a half hours downtown to downtown with high speed rail! That beats the airlines and without the environmental damage. How cool! (Literally.)

anonymous

Fri, 04 May 2007 09:58:36 -0800

There's always JetBlue from Oakland to Long Beach...not a bad way to go.