Recent Streetsblog SF posts about MTC

Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Campos Set to Serve on MTC

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 15, 2011 | 5 Comments

For the last 16 years, Jon Rubin has served as the Mayor’s appointee on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area’s regional transportation planning and funding body, originally appointed by Frank Jordan in 1995. Last week, Rubin was forced to resign and turn over the seat to Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose four-year term begins May […]

Bay Area Governments Begin Developing Regional Smart Growth Plan

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 16, 2011 | 2 Comments

Local governments in the Bay Area have begun a coordinated regional effort to shift toward more sustainable urban planning mandated by the state’s landmark anti-sprawl bill, SB 375, which set ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and called for better integration of land use and transportation planning. Last week, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission […]

Caltrain Service Cuts Could Be Mitigated With New MTC Plan

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 11, 2011 | 27 Comments

Communities from San Francisco to San Jose may be saved from much of the expected crippling Caltrain service cuts. A new Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) plan being developed could make up much of the agency’s budget deficit for the next two years, said MTC Public Information Officer John Goodwin. A large chunk of the coming […]

AC Transit Riders Fight For Their Right to Ride, 55 Years After Montgomery

By Bob Allen and Marcy Rein | Dec 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

Editor’s note: This story is being re-published from Race, Poverty and the Environment, a magazine produced by the social and environmental justice non-profit, Urban Habitat. Fifty-five years to the month after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, people of color can sit wherever they want on the bus—when and if one arrives. Bus operators […]

Congestion Pricing Fracas Shows Lamentable Ignorance of Facts

By Matthew Roth | Dec 3, 2010 | 26 Comments

You’d think the Tea Party had descended on San Mateo County, what with the piqued rhetoric in the media over San Francisco’s congestion pricing study. I don’t like to invoke Sarah Palin’s jargon, but I keep coming back to her horrible phrase “lamestream media” when I see yet another story that paints San Francisco transportation […]

BART Board Members Criticize Clipper Transition at Meeting

By Matthew Roth | Nov 18, 2010 | 15 Comments

The BART Board of Directors had a heated discussion today about most things Clipper, from the large number of EZ Rider customers who have yet to transition to the universal smart card, to the ease with which customers can scam Clipper cards on BART and other operators. Despite a more visible outreach and marketing campaign […]

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