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- From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
- Subject: New BART plan for SFO
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.212445.21056@ntmtv>
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- Summary: Now Jordan wants BART station at terminal
- Keywords: BART CalTrain SFO Jordan Kopp
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:24:45 GMT
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- From the San Mateo Times, Wed, Jan 27, 1993, front page:
-
- NEW BART PLAN FOR AIRPORT
- by Dave Madden
-
- Transit leaders are mulling a new notion for bringing BART into San
- Francisco International Airport.
-
- Put forth by San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan, it calls for running
- BART trains over the Bayshore Freeway to a station in the new
- international terminal planned at the airport.
-
- The alignment is seen as a compromise that brings the Bay Area Rapid
- Transit system into SFO without causing major disruption to airport
- operations.
-
- It also could heal the rift between Jordan and state Sen. Quentin
- Kopp, I-San Mateo/San Francisco, at a time when Jordan needs Kopp's
- support for a new baseball stadium for the Giants.
-
- Kopp declined to endorse the two previous stadium proposals rejected
- by San Francisco voters, and many observers believe his support could
- make the difference this time around.
-
- Kopp wants an internal airport station and says he's prepared to
- organize a voter initiative that could force San Francisco leaders to
- fulfill that goal.
-
- The initiative and Jordan's stadium measure could end up sharing the
- ballot for a special November election in San Francisco.
-
- Jordan, Kopp, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Mary
- Griffin and officials from SFO, BART, SamTrans and the Metropolitan
- Transportation Commission will discuss the aerial alignment today in
- a private, informal meeting in San Francisco.
-
- Griffin welcomed the idea of a compromise.
-
- "If an alternative (station) site can be found that satisfies the
- needs of the airport and access for BART, then it's a win-win
- situation," she said Tuesday.
-
- "It would be the best of both worlds if we don't go to some sort of
- mandate that doesn't include decision-makers in San Mateo County,"
- Griffin added, referring to the Kopp initiative.
-
- Jordan aide Stuart Sunshine cautioned Tuesday that the aerial
- alignment is "just an idea at this point, nothing formal."
-
- Jordan has asked SFO Director Lou Turpen to come up with a scheme that
- causes the least amount of disruption to airport operations, Sunshine
- said.
-
- "We are looking into other options that would provide a compromise
- between what Sen. Kopp wants and what the airport director is
- interested in," he said.
-
- BART board President Nello Bianco, who also will attend today's
- meeting, said Tuesday that he was unaware of the aerial alignment.
-
- "We have some new ideas also, here at BART, maybe something that could
- be agreeable to all sides," he said.
-
- Bianco said he and other directors will continue to push for an
- internal station.
-
- "I still feel very strongly that given this opportunity, we should put
- the station inside the airport. We won't get this opportunity again,"
- he said.
-
- "If we can put a man on the moon, there's no question in my mind that
- we can come up with something to get BART into the airport."
-
- The current plan for the six-mile BART extension from Colma to SFO
- includes stations in South San Francisco and San Bruno. The new line
- would end at an airport station west of the Bayshore Freeway. The
- same station would be used by CalTrain and SFO's "people mover," a new
- light rail system serving the terminals and airport workplaces.
-
- BART, SamTrans and the MTC approved the plan last year, but left it
- open to changes. The more expensive subways sought by Colma and South
- San Francisco, and the Interstate 380 bypass proposed by San Bruno,
- could be added if those cities find ways to finance them, the agencies
- agreed.
-
- Another option is a second SFO station, somewhere inside the airport.
- Kopp has been talking of a subway loop and station beneath the airport
- garage, financed, in part, by a new ticket tax on air travelers.
-
- The initiative being talked of now would be the second Kopp has
- proposed on the airport station. He withdrew an earlier version that
- appeared to kill plans to link the airport people mover to a new
- CalTrain station west of the freeway.
-
- Airport officials claim the people mover connection can be made and a
- train platform built by 1997 at a cost of about $20 million.
-
- <end of article>
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