So, finally we get a beach in Mountain View? !

@night walk8r

I think it would be a really stinky beach for quite a few years yet. I'm sure it will take several seasons for the region to acclimate and adapt.

Since we are gaining a square mile of marshland, can we now allow some landfill at SFO, to allow for necessary separation between runways? As the situation stands, even mild visibility impairment, such as recent rains, eliminates one runway for landings, cutting capacity in half. The recent AeroMexico dustup was directly caused by re-routing an arrival from SFO to OAK.

There was mention of planning for the next 100 years. Anyone, who has been closely following the latest data regarding Anthropogenic Climate Disruption (ACD) should understand that there is virtually no likelihood that humans, or other higher life forms will survive until then. Such realists likely constitute less than 1% of the U.S. population.

I am glad that many groups of people are pursuing the things that they love in the meantime.

Great article by Kevin. And no, Waldo -- no new runways in the bay are planned or possible at SFO, which is improving its capacity through better technology and operations without more fill. Those plans decades ago proved prohibitively expensive and would have bankrupted the airport. Building stable tarmac on soft bay mud in a seismic zone is huge engineering challenge. In fact, both the SF Airport Commission and the SF Board of Supervisors made it their official policy not to fill in more of the Bay 15 years ago.