We're talking about a city that just built a brand new, terabuck priced stadium (which will be around for 20-30 years) 43 miles out of the city in a car-centric suburb.
I couldn't believe that the new 49ers stadium (in Santa Clara) cost a trillion dollars, so I looked it up. It cost $1.2 billion [1] - a "gigabuck" rather than a "terabuck." To put that in perspective, a single office building in nearby Palo Alto just sold for $300 million. [2]
Judging from the people driving up and down 101 with flags flying, the people wearing 49ers jerseys year-round in San Jose, the big BBQs hanging off the big trucks in the parking lot of games, and the truck commercials that litter televised football, the new car-centric location suits the football team nicely.
I'd be much more upset if the SF Giants decided to move out of the city!
Don't worry, the site has poor access by car as well as by transit! (It's not particularly close to 101; it's closish to 237, but 237 is terrible, etc)
Could be worse, the SJ Earthquake's stadium is adjacent to caltrain, but you have to take a crazy bus route to get there. You can see it, but you can't walk to it.
