Originally Posted by
cappt
B/S! Move 28R a couple hundred feet out further into the bay. The current 28R can become bay again with little overall loss of San Francisco Bay.
That's just not going to happen. Various versions of the battle have been going on since I was a kid in Foster City, with aircraft on final to 28 L/R skimming overhead "almost within reach." That was a very long time ago.
Even without the objections of the "enviros," the neighbors can be counted on to almost universally, very loudly, and very effectively oppose runway expansion. They always do and, so far, they always win.
The environmental issues are hardly trivial, either. Fully a third of SF Bay has been filled (and much of it been built on) since the mid-nineteenth century. That's a big deal and current law prevents filling more of it without major environmental impact review and restoring previously-filled wetlands elsewhere in the Bay. Difficult and expensive.
There should be plenty of slots available at KOAK and KSJC.