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BART Loses More Federal Funding for Oakland Airport Connector Project

By Matthew Roth | Feb 18, 2010 | 20 Comments

Image: BART As transportation planners and transit agencies around the country celebrated the announcement of the $1.5 billion in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery, or TIGER grants, yesterday, BART received more troubling news that could hurt the feasibility of its planned Oakland Airport Connector (OAC). After losing $70 million in stimulus funds last week because […]

Transit Agency Representatives Push “Protect Local” Ballot Initiative

By Matthew Roth | Feb 17, 2010 | 1 Comment

The California State Capitol in Sacramento. Flickr photo: Paraflyer With the continued raids on voter mandated transit funding sources to plug holes in California’s general fund, representatives from the state’s many transit agencies and locally elected officials are pushing for a sweeping ballot initiative this November, one which supporters say would finally put an end […]

FTA Won’t Fund BART Airport Connector, $70 Million to Go to Transit Ops

By Matthew Roth | Feb 12, 2010 | 76 Comments

Image: BART In a stern letter to BART [PDF], Federal Transit Association (FTA) Administrator Peter Rogoff informed the agency that it would not be able to develop a suitable action plan by March 5th to comply with equity and race requirements for the $70 million in stimulus funds for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), a […]

Can Anything Be Done to Fix Muni?

By Matthew Roth | Feb 11, 2010 | 16 Comments

Photo: Troy Holden In San Francisco it’s almost as cliche to kvetch about Muni as it is to misquote Mark Twain about chilly summers, but what can possibly be done to fix a transit system that seems to have so many problems and almost no solutions that everyone can agree upon? The city’s sitting mayor […]

Fell Street Arco Bike Lane Might See Improvements Soon

By Matthew Roth | Feb 10, 2010 | 21 Comments

Click to enlarge. Proposed changes to Fell St. bike lane, soft-hit posts in red. The MTA might have a solution for the dangerous conditions at the Fell Street Arco gas station, where motorists queueing up to buy gas routinely block the bike lane and force cyclists to navigate between bumpers or try their hand a […]

City Leaders Gather for Central Subway Groundbreaking Ceremony

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 9, 2010 | 15 Comments

Mayor Newsom addresses supporters of the Central Subway. Photo: Michael Rhodes Dozens of local elected officials and community leaders donned their novelty hard hats today for a Central Subway groundbreaking ceremony under the I-80 freeway overpass. Tunneling for the subway won’t start for at least another two years, so a utility relocation project at the […]

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