Recent Streetsblog SF posts about AC Transit

On the Ballot: A Key to Alameda County’s Sustainable Transportation Future

By Judy Silber | Oct 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

Alameda County could usher in a new era of progressive transportation projects if voters pass a proposed half-cent sales tax increase known as Measure B1 on November 6. Measure B1 would generate a projected $7.8 billion over the next 30 years for projects selected using a “complete streets” approach aimed at improving the county’s streets, […]

Oakland City Council Gives Final Approval to East Bay BRT

By Judy Silber | Jul 18, 2012 | 14 Comments

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved the 9.5-mile East Bay Bus Rapid Transit line that will run from downtown Oakland to San Leandro. The vote in Oakland follows a similar approval by San Leandro’s City Council on Monday. The dual approvals mark a huge victory for advocacy groups and AC Transit, which first […]

Advocates Rebuff Merchant’s Absurd Argument Against East Bay BRT

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 10, 2012 | 14 Comments

In an op-ed in the Oakland Tribune yesterday, local business owner Randy Reed laid down a whopping piece of misinformation: For businesses, he wrote, enhancing East Bay transportation options with Bus Rapid Transit will be no different than when construction removes all of the car parking on a street. Reed, who led the charge in killing the Telegraph Avenue […]

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Transbay Transit Center to Fill Downtown With People, Not Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2012 | 17 Comments

The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco’s downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa. Scheduled to open in 2017, it will link 11 transit systems and eventually CA High-Speed Rail. Some have called it the “Grand Central of the West.” The SF Planning Commission last week approved […]

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East Bay BRT EIR Approved, Final Agreements Set for June

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 27, 2012 | 7 Comments

Bus rapid transit (BRT) between Oakland and San Leandro in the East Bay cleared a major hurdle this week after AC Transit unanimously approved the project’s environmental impact report. Agreements with the cities of Oakland and San Leandro must still be finalized in June before the project can officially break ground. “This plan represents a […]

Mapping a Fully Transit-Connected Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Imagine the freedom of being able to hop on a nearby train or bus to reach virtually any place in the Bay Area (and beyond) on an integrated network of reliable transit. That’s the vision cartographer Brian Stokle sought to lay out in a map featured in the latest issue of SPUR‘s monthly magazine, The Urbanist. In a recent […]

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