Recent Streetsblog SF posts about TransForm

Broad AC Transit Service Cuts Coming, But There Could Be a Silver Lining

By Matthew Roth and Michael Rhodes | Mar 15, 2010 | 17 Comments

AC Transit Route 72R. Flickr photo: daniel_gies AC Transit announced today it plans to cut service on 108 of 113 lines across the East Bay on March 28th, amounting to an 8 percent overall reduction. Despite the broad cuts, the agency is pitching the change as one that will spare its most transit-dependent riders. By […]

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 […]

Transit Advocates, Construction Workers Show Up in Force at MTC Meeting

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 27, 2010 | 19 Comments

Photos by Matthew Roth via Twitter Transit advocates in favor of redirecting stimulus funds for the Oakland Airport Connector to financially struggling transit agencies are out in force at this morning’s MTC Commission meeting in Oakland, along with dozens of union construction workers. Streetsblog’s Matthew Roth reports the main meeting room and overflow rooms are […]

MTC Meeting Tomorrow is Muni’s Best Chance for $17 Million

By Dave Snyder | Jan 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

A proposed alternative to the Oakland Airport Connector. Image: TransForm Muni riders have a chance at a reprieve from the one thousand hours per day of lost service that the MTA is proposing to cut in order to plug a $17 million deficit before the end of the fiscal year in June. The service cuts […]

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