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Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 5:31 AM
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I will never understand the issue with this arena. It is within walking distance of a Muni light rail route, the future Central Subway, Caltrain, BART, the future Transbay Terminal with buses to everywhere, the SF Ferry Building with ferries to everywhere else. It has better transportation that 90% of stadiums in the US (especially the new one in South Bay), and yet all I hear are these arguments about traffic. I mean, if the traffic does turn out to be that bad (which I kind of doubt) it will just give an incentive for people not to drive to the stadium the next time. They certainly have a multitude of options most cities would kill for. Do all the people who live around the area drive cars? If I lived in South Beach I certainly wouldn't care about "my" roads getting congested because I'd probably never drive on them anyways. Downtown SF is the focal point of the SF Bay Area, it will be congested with traffic stadium or no stadium, so wouldn't it be better to have an awesome sports and concert venue than a decaying pier?
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Old Posted Mar 7, 2014, 6:49 PM
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OK I understand your arguments about it being close to transportation and hotels. But what I never understand is why people become emotionally invested in a particular location as if it's the only place it could go. If they had suggested a different location first - say on top of the rail lines at 7th and Townsend then people would insist that this is the best place for it. I think Pier 30 is a dead deal. Fighting for it is a waste of energy. By the time people finally accept that the team will be moving into it's new arena in downtown San Jose.
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Old Posted Mar 15, 2014, 6:05 PM
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Old Posted Mar 24, 2014, 2:05 PM
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Warriors plan to press ahead with the Piers 30-32 as their preferred plan, taking it to the voters if required. They've also brought their hotel/condo project across the street down to the current 105 foot height limit.

The two Mission Bay sites remain in play, however.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier...to-5342857.php
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Old Posted Mar 24, 2014, 11:12 PM
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I can't be the only one who thinks this toilet bowl arena is fugly. Also I think the whole idea of putting it out on the piers is kind of stupid. It would be a real shame if SF got more restrictive about it's waterfront development all because of this dog.
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 8:36 PM
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Waterfront arena is dead. The team has bought Salesforce's old Mission Bay property.

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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 8:47 PM
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It's getting built. But what a BORING neighborhood!

"I'm hungry, let's go get a bite to eat and a cranberry juice from the hospital food court!"
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 9:03 PM
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Hm, that's a pretty terrible location for transit connections (at least compared to piers 30/32 and even Mission Rock).

Should be interesting to see how this works.
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 9:15 PM
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If the city would do anything about the completely inept, pathetic, embarrassing state of the light rail subway system transit would actually WORK in SF instead of being a burden. Two car trains that travel an average of 15 mph is no way to operate in the 2nd densest city in the U.S. The MTA in their genius bought Breda trains that were too heavy for the tracks. The trains were supposed to operate at 55 mph but have to be slowed down to 30 mph max because of this. It's also why you hear those terrible blood curdling squeals whenever they turn. (source links http://www.sfweekly.com/1998-12-09/n...rding-failure/) It's actually a pretty decent transit location- when the Central Subway is open it will be within walking distance to this stadium, and will shoot right to the BART station. It will be much more connected here than the current Warriors stadium. The question is- will it be able to handle the capacity?
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 9:33 PM
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The T can't handle significantly higher capacity, regardless of the trains. It's a surface light rail system with stations designed for 1 or 2 car trains. Even if that could somehow be fixed (stations rebuilt, some kind of system to allow blocking intersections when stopped, etc), the Central Subway is being built with underground stations not designed to handle longer trains, so...

I don't really see how this location would be more connected than the current Warriors location in Oakland. More central to the fanbase (maybe?) and within a walkable neighborhood, sure, but a high capacity heavy rail line stops right at the current location. That was the beauty of the pier 30/32 location - BART a short walk away + various Muni options + Caltrain. This is basically some Muni options + Caltrain a reasonable walk away. BART is two miles away, which is a bit far to really depend on to handle heavy loads.
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 10:10 PM
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It might ignite further high rise development in Mission Bay.

Oh yeah, it's already 10 story hospitals and parking garages.

Huge lost opportunity to be centrally located. But at least there will be an arena. Look forward to the concerts and parties! (not a big basketball fan)
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The T can't handle significantly higher capacity, regardless of the trains. It's a surface light rail system with stations designed for 1 or 2 car trains. Even if that could somehow be fixed (stations rebuilt, some kind of system to allow blocking intersections when stopped, etc), the Central Subway is being built with underground stations not designed to handle longer trains, so...

I don't really see how this location would be more connected than the current Warriors location in Oakland. More central to the fanbase (maybe?) and within a walkable neighborhood, sure, but a high capacity heavy rail line stops right at the current location. That was the beauty of the pier 30/32 location - BART a short walk away + various Muni options + Caltrain. This is basically some Muni options + Caltrain a reasonable walk away. BART is two miles away, which is a bit far to really depend on to handle heavy loads.
IIRC, Muni plans to move to a peak 4 minute headway on the T once the Central Subway was complete. While definitely not optimal they should be able to surge T service for a short period out of the Metro East complex when required. Boarding outside the arena will surely need to be addressed though. It's definitely not as good as the pier but not a disaster.

I'm sort of hoping that people will hang around before and after events to give this area some much needed street life and retail a major boost.
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Too bad. It was a potentially exciting proposal for Piers 30-32. Are the NIMBYs in San Francisco some of the most effective NIMBYs in the country, at least in their abilities to prevent development? Or is it simply the ease with which Californians seem to be able to push a public vote on seemingly anything (even if only a minority of people actually disapprove)?
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Being within walking distance from the Bay, I can imagine a Ferry service from the East Bay to this site.
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 11:13 PM
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IIRC, Muni plans to move to a peak 4 minute headway on the T once the Central Subway was complete. While definitely not optimal they should be able to surge T service for a short period out of the Metro East complex when required. Boarding outside the arena will surely need to be addressed though. It's definitely not as good as the pier but not a disaster.

I'm sort of hoping that people will hang around before and after events to give this area some much needed street life and retail a major boost.
I'll believe the "peak 4 minute headway" when I see it. They've long stated that at meetings, but never addressed the fact that they simply don't have enough trains in the system to make that kind of headway happen with taking SIGNIFICANT service away from other lines. (There's also simply the fact that four minute headways on a mostly-above-ground line is legitimately hard to pull off in any kind of reliable way).

Maybe they have some secret capital purchase plan...it would be nice to see it!

If you live along the T, I'd prepare for horrendous commutes once this thing opens, since many if not most of the planned 150+ events per year will land right in commute times...

What a lost opportunity with piers 30/32. That really is the most transit-friendly location for an arena west of the Mississippi, it's a shame that it'll stay rotting and empty. Maybe it can be used for office space or something else at least.
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2014, 11:44 PM
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I'll believe the "peak 4 minute headway" when I see it. They've long stated that at meetings, but never addressed the fact that they simply don't have enough trains in the system to make that kind of headway happen with taking SIGNIFICANT service away from other lines. (There's also simply the fact that four minute headways on a mostly-above-ground line is legitimately hard to pull off in any kind of reliable way).

Maybe they have some secret capital purchase plan...it would be nice to see it!

If you live along the T, I'd prepare for horrendous commutes once this thing opens, since many if not most of the planned 150+ events per year will land right in commute times...

What a lost opportunity with piers 30/32. That really is the most transit-friendly location for an arena west of the Mississippi, it's a shame that it'll stay rotting and empty. Maybe it can be used for office space or something else at least.
Muni is supposed to get the first couple batches of new rail cars concurrent with the opening of the Central Subway. Fortunately Breda has been disqualified from bidding.

Ferry service and bus circulators to bart stations should probably be looked at as well to help spread the load.
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Old Posted Apr 22, 2014, 12:44 AM
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^The last I had heard those were replacement vehicles rather than adding to the total number? I could be wrong.
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Too bad. It was a potentially exciting proposal for Piers 30-32. Are the NIMBYs in San Francisco some of the most effective NIMBYs in the country, at least in their abilities to prevent development? Or is it simply the ease with which Californians seem to be able to push a public vote on seemingly anything (even if only a minority of people actually disapprove)?
No, not always, but the waterfront is considered to be "sacred"--we really need to accept that and move on because it's not going to change any time soon.
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Too bad. It was a potentially exciting proposal for Piers 30-32. Are the NIMBYs in San Francisco some of the most effective NIMBYs in the country, at least in their abilities to prevent development? Or is it simply the ease with which Californians seem to be able to push a public vote on seemingly anything (even if only a minority of people actually disapprove)?
Yes the NIMBYs here are professionals. Heaven forbid you try to build anything in this city, cause they will cut a bitch.

Also, SF law lends itself to be easily manipulated by NIMBYs. For one, building permits are discretionary, even after the city has done a neighborhood planning and rezoning process, each project still needs to get individually green lighted. NIMBYs can appeal projects at several levels and then file a CEQA lawsuit if they are still feeling super cunty. Even after that you can do a ballot initative which is what was going to happen to this and what killed 8 Washington.

With that said, I'm actually dissapointed with this site. I heard a suggestion of bundeling this project into the Moscone Center Expansion, which would make it more of a demo and rebuild, but at least it that location is better connected to transit and more centrally located. And of course ironically the waterfront is now a mere 100 feet or so away.
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Or is it simply the ease with which Californians seem to be able to push a public vote on seemingly anything (even if only a minority of people actually disapprove)?
Ah it's called democracy. I understand you guys in DC might not be too familiar with the concept :-)

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