Recent Streetsblog SF posts about TransForm

Bay Area Toll Authority Mulls Toll Increase Scenarios, Seeks Public Input

By Matthew Roth | Dec 7, 2009 | 21 Comments

Photo: kpmarek As the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) continues its regional public hearings, including one tonight in San Francisco, the various options the agency is proposing for increasing bridge tolls are generating a number of debates and proposals, including the funding of the long-discussed pedestrian/bicycle/maintenance paths over the west span of the Bay Bridge. […]

New Study Quantifies High Personal Costs of Building CA Cities for Cars

By Matthew Roth | Nov 19, 2009 | 10 Comments

Click to enlarge: Annual household transportation costs in the Bay Area. California residents living in sprawling suburban developments could save billions of dollars every year if they lived in denser, urban zones and along transit corridors, according to a study released today by smart growth and transit advocates TransForm. Analyzing four metropolitan areas–Southern California, the […]

Oakland Airport Connector Clears One More Hurdle

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2009 | 5 Comments

OAC image: BART Transit advocates, community groups, and faith-based environmental justice organizations made another plea to Oakland and regional policy makers to kill the half a billion dollar Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) with a resolution sponsored by Oakland City Council members Nancy Nadel and Rebecca Kaplan at their monthly meeting last night. Citing a significantly […]

Oakland Council Rolls Back Parking Changes Amid Cries From Merchants

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2009 | 18 Comments

Grand Lake Theater owner Alan Michaan exhorts the public to "Stop the Parking Madness!" Photo: DigiAnt During another raucous staging of political parking theater at last night’s Oakland City Council meeting, where more than 90 speakers often shouted their opinions on the city’s parking policy, the council reversed its position from July, scaling back the […]

Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against BART Over Oak Airport Connector

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

Oaklan Airport BART Station rendering. Image: BART Transit advocates and community groups have filed a complaint (PDF) with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), charging that BART has not complied with federal civil rights obligations in its planning of the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC). The move by Public Advocates Inc. on behalf of TransForm, Urban Habitat […]

Local Advocates Mourn “Death of Transit” as Part of National Campaign

By Matthew Roth | Jul 22, 2009 | 7 Comments

Mock funeral for transit today in Oakland. Photos: Matthew Roth Transit advocates, transit riders, politicians, and religious figures mourned the continual underfunding of transit operations by staging a mock funeral for public transit above the 12th Street/Oakland BART station today. The event was tied to a national campaign led by Transit Riders for Public Transportation […]

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