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The Bay Area used to be dotted with military bases. Alameda NAS Concord Naval Weapons Station Fleet Industrial Supply Center Oakland Hamilton AFB Hun

The Bay Area used to be dotted with military bases. Alameda NAS Concord Naval Weapons Station Fleet Industrial Supply Center Oakland Hamilton AFB Hunters Point Mare Island Moffett Field Oakland Army Base Oakland Naval Hospital Presidio Treasure Island In fact Silicon Valley used to be defense industry before it was silicon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo Losing Travis would cost jobs but CA would eventually recover. Vallejo is finally recovering from Mare Island closing and losing that tax base. However, we pay for those jobs which get shipped elsewhere with CA taxes. Also, military jobs are less impacted by economic cycles and provide more stability to the local economy. Solano should fight hard to keep Travis but the article doesn't provide good news on that front.

joe_the_user 6y ago
That misses the point that the problem is transit created as political footballs. That basically results in grand plans that end-up worthless. I used to live in Sonoma County. To fight congestion, they created the Smart Train. But through a similar process, the train wound-up a seldom running, expensive medium rail from nowhere to nowhere. Maybe there's a reason to not put trains where people generally good but you'd have to spell out what that is.
- season2episode3 6y ago
  They made the mistake of trying to build that train through Marin. Good luck. Marin's home to some of the most regressive local politics imaginable.
  - joe_the_user 6y ago
    The mistake of thinking they could go halfway through Marin and extend it later. And the mistake of having the train use a single track for half it's length (once an hour service at most, any time of day).
Stratoscope 6y ago
More airbases and airfields: Crissy Field Half Moon Bay Airport Watsonville Airport If we venture a bit farther south: Hollister 12th Naval District Target No. 5 [1] [2] Salinas Army Air Base [1] http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAS-Hollister-History.pdf http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAS-Hollister-History.pdf [2] https://goo.gl/maps/HEpQV6QZp7B6jHi98 https://goo.gl/maps/HEpQV6QZp7B6jHi98 (The runway is Lightning Tree Ranch, a private airstrip now used for drone testing. The bombing range is the deserted area to its south.)
- shaftway 6y ago
  Camp Parks too. They've has been selling off land to local developers, to the point that they completely moved the primary entrance. Signage claims it's for reserve force training, but it used to host some MILSATCOM personnel, and there's no indication that's changed.

joe_the_user 6y ago

That misses the point that the problem is transit created as political footballs. That basically results in grand plans that end-up worthless. I used to live in Sonoma County. To fight congestion, they created the Smart Train. But through a similar process, the train wound-up a seldom running, expensive medium rail from nowhere to nowhere. Maybe there's a reason to not put trains where people generally good but you'd have to spell out what that is.

season2episode3 6y ago
They made the mistake of trying to build that train through Marin. Good luck. Marin's home to some of the most regressive local politics imaginable.
- joe_the_user 6y ago
  The mistake of thinking they could go halfway through Marin and extend it later. And the mistake of having the train use a single track for half it's length (once an hour service at most, any time of day).

Stratoscope 6y ago

More airbases and airfields: Crissy Field Half Moon Bay Airport Watsonville Airport If we venture a bit farther south: Hollister 12th Naval District Target No. 5 [1] [2] Salinas Army Air Base [1] http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAS-Hollister-History.pdf http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAS-Hollister-History.pdf [2] https://goo.gl/maps/HEpQV6QZp7B6jHi98 https://goo.gl/maps/HEpQV6QZp7B6jHi98 (The runway is Lightning Tree Ranch, a private airstrip now used for drone testing. The bombing range is the deserted area to its south.)

shaftway 6y ago
Camp Parks too. They've has been selling off land to local developers, to the point that they completely moved the primary entrance. Signage claims it's for reserve force training, but it used to host some MILSATCOM personnel, and there's no indication that's changed.