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Re:San Francisco loses 2 big conferences by benatkin on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:23PM (#36650518)
That's because they're right at the airport. Look at the hotels with airport in their name that are within a few miles of the airport. A lot of them are closer to a CalTrain station then the airport.
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Re:San Francisco loses 2 big conferences by inferiorhuman on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:33PM (#36650595)
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/sfosoes-embassy-suites-san-...

  Please note that we offer a fee-based shuttle to San Francisco International
  Airport SFO, from 5AM-10AM and 5PM-10PM. Please reserve the shuttle using
  the link below.
That's closer to south city Caltrain than the airport, and yet… nobody is taking Caltrain to Moscone. Judging by that neighborhood nobody's walking to Caltrain either. Caltrain to Moscone isn't a thing.
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Re:San Francisco loses 2 big conferences by benatkin on Saturday July 08, 2023 @09:39PM (#36650638)
Yes and hopefully it won't be a thing (just something that happens enough that it's not nobody). But the extension to downtown is attempting to make it a thing. They're hoping that people who take it downtown will take it to go anywhere that they consider downtown accessible. Part of the plan is an underground passage to the Embarcadero BART station. I think the planned budget is ridiculous but I think it would be used at least enough for it to be considered a thing.
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