Recent Streetsblog SF posts about MTC

San Francisco Shovel Ready for Freeway Project Through a Park

By Susan Vaughan | Mar 30, 2009 | 17 Comments

SFCTA Graphic Five decades after activists killed plans for a major freeway traveling through San Francisco’s Panhandle, construction companies are lining up for the contract to break ground in August on another major freeway through a park – the Presidio Parkway, which will replace Doyle Drive in the Presidio National Park. Plans to improve or […]

Regional Transportation Funding Problems Keep Getting Bigger

By Matthew Roth | Mar 26, 2009 | 5 Comments

In a sobering revision of the 25-year Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) at yesterday’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting, MTC staff explained that the elimination of the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund and much lower than expected sales-tax revenues forced the planning body to significantly revise down its projections for operational spending and expansion projects (PDF). […]

Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

Advocates packed the MTC hearing room Transportation and social justice advocates packed the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) board meeting today to demand that the agency not spend a proposed $70 million of federal stimulus money on the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project. MTC commissioners heard testimony for over two hours from some of the more […]

Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector

By Matthew Roth | Feb 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

How will you get to the Oakland Airport in 5 years? The debate over how to spend the federal transportation stimulus money at the regional level is heating up and may boil over tomorrow morning at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting. As we reported here two weeks ago, the nine-county Bay Area will […]

Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices

By Matthew Roth | Feb 12, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) main auditorium in Oakland was standing-room-only Wednesday for an Allocations Committee meeting where the MTC board debated proposals by staff on how to spend the expected stimulus money when President Obama signs the bill into law. MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger explained the need to get the discussion started even […]

Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics

By Matthew Roth | Jan 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

Governor Schwarzenegger sent a letter Tuesday to President-elect Obama encouraging massive expenditure in the federal stimulus package on a host of projects in California. The letter comes a month after the governor and president-elect discussed the stimulus package in person: When we met, I had identified $28 billion in infrastructure projects ready to break ground […]