Recent Streetsblog SF posts about BART

Say What?

By Chris Carlsson | May 24, 2010 | 26 Comments

The vibrations and rumble of cable cars used to occur on many of San Francisco’s streets. We are often attracted to city life for the energy, the boisterousness, the noise. I am a city guy having lived all my life in cities (born in Brooklyn, Chicago until age 10, Oakland until 17, and San Francisco […]

BART Expected to Avoid Service Cuts, Fare Increases in FY 2010-11

By Matthew Roth | Apr 5, 2010 | No Comments

BART has announced it likely will not need to cut service or raise fares to close a $10 million deficit projected for the fiscal year starting July 1st, thanks to a variety of cost-cutting measures and a pleasant surprise: $26 million in state funding. In fact, with the state money, BART expects to have enough […]

Wall Street Swaps Haunting Cities: How Many Transit Agencies Hold Them?

By Elana Schor | Mar 31, 2010 | No Comments

The vast majority of Americans could not recognize the term "credit-default swaps" until 2008, when the obscure type of Wall Street deal was pinpointed as a leading cause of the U.S. financial meltdown. Now another type of swap, centered on interest rates, is making headlines as a growing number of urban governments start to regret […]

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 […]

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 […]

MTC Gives BART Until Mid-February on Civil Rights Review

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2010 | 4 Comments

Reverend Scot Denman of Genesis and Oakland Airport Connector opponents rally outside MTC headquarters in Oakland. Photos: Matthew Roth The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), at its monthly meeting in Oakland today, voted 11-5 to reaffirm its commitment to the Oakland Airport Connector, despite BART’s recent problems with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) over its Title […]

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