Comments on: Port of Oakland approves Oakland Airport Connector project. Well, according to the Trib, anyway.

By: Steve Lowe

Steve Lowe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:29:00 +0000

Hate the Airport Connector, love Cybertran! Lukewarm on the busses because they have to stop too long while people get on and off, unlike the other choices. Check it out!

Ken’s earlier observation, as above, that the Port and NN are “buddy=buddy” is probably being made without knowledge of the long history of the lawsuit between West Oakland Neighbors (WON) and the Port, the beginning of the Port’s culpability that it was contributing to WO’s higher-than-just-about-anywhere asthma rate. The issue of clean air remains one of the principal drivers of economic develeopment in West Oakland (relating as it does to trucking, logistics, Army Base reuse, etc.), and, if anything, we all owe a large debt to WON – founded in Nancy’s livingroom back in the last century!

Thanks,

– S

By: Karen Smulevitz

Karen Smulevitz — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:36:09 +0000

The reporter, Janis Mara, has “corrected” the errors in the report. In later editions, the new version appears. No need to do research until someone challenges your facts! As was done on InsideBayArea forums.

By: dto510

dto510 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:19:32 +0000

You missed an error! The OAC as proposed by BART is not necessarily rail, but more likely to be rubber-tire like the SFO connector.

By: livegreen

livegreen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:14:37 +0000

I just emailed KQED California Report to make sure they don’t repeat this headline.
I emailed a copy of V’s Post & linked it (hope you don’t mind V) so they’d get the details. (At the very least they’ll be turned on to your blog).

California Reports contact info is calreport@kqed.org.

By: livegreen

livegreen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:04:32 +0000

Makes me wonder if NPR’s CA Report will pick it up & run the story. Sometimes they just lift the headlines. Shows how the decline in journalism is even negatively impacting the best.

Is there anywhere anyway we can complain about such outright false reporting?
(Beyond the paper itself). Any truth in journalism or oversight body or local/state FCC (the federal FCC is useless and not staffed or funded to do it’s job).

By: Chris Kidd

Chris Kidd — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:05:07 +0000

It’s like the reporter from the Trib didn’t even go to the meeting and just lifted text off of a pre-arranged PR-flack press release from BART.

Hey, that’s just as plausible as gross incompetance.

By: len raphael

len raphael — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:56:47 +0000

Perata’s letter was good till the end. What’s his “favorite” an all-bay commuter ferry service about?

-len raphael
temescal

By: Andy K

Andy K — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:22:04 +0000

The really bad thing about this article is that other news organizations are picking up on the Tribs story and perpetuating the inaccuracies. I heard a radio report this AM on the way to work that said “According to the Oak. Tribuine, the Port of Oakland approved funding for the $500 millon OAC, a 3 mile light rail system to replace the existing bus connector.”

Is this just bad reporting or is something else at work?

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:06:30 +0000

The port and nancy nadel seem to be buddy buddy. They give her money to disburse as she sees fit for air pollution mitigation. I don’t know how effective that has been.

We should have our next blogger party at the port of oakland PARK!

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:10 +0000

And then they wonder why newspapers are going bankrupt. Gee, when your job is to provide somewhat reliable information…FAIL.