Recent Streetsblog SF posts about MTC

FTA Probes MTC Civil Rights Policy, Casts Shadow on Funding Practices

By Matthew Roth | Aug 18, 2010 | 13 Comments

MTC’s Executive Director Steve Heminger, foreground, listens to public testimony against MTC’s plan to use federal stimulus funds for the Oakland Airport Connector last year. Photo: Matthew Roth The Federal Transit Administration has increased the likelihood the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s regional transportation planning and funding body, will undergo a full civil […]

MTC Adopts Aggressive 15 Percent Target for Reducing Emissions by 2035

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 29, 2010 | 20 Comments

Photo: Keenahn The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), in a historic vote Wednesday that will help guide the future for more sustainable land use and transportation planning in the Bay Area, recommended a 15 percent per capita target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2035, the most aggressive goal to date among California’s metropolitan planning […]

BART Mulls Options for Spending (or Saving) Small Budget Surplus

By Matthew Roth | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo: Matthew Roth BART Board meetings over the past year have been tumultuous, from the public fury over the Oscar Grant killing, which included the arrest of a protester for dousing BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger with red paint, to vigorous debate over whether to spend stimulus funds on the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), to […]

MTC Confident on Civil Rights Policies, Clipper Card Rollout Begins

By Matthew Roth | May 26, 2010 | 8 Comments

The Clipper Card readers at the Lake Merritt BART Station. Photos: Matthew Roth. One development lost in the media feeding frenzy around the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) denying BART’s request of $70 million for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) was a letter the FTA sent to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s planning […]

MTC Report Shows Dismal Future for Transit Operators

By Matthew Roth | Apr 19, 2010 | 26 Comments

Image: MTC The 2009 Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) Annual Report paints a sobering picture of funding crises at nearly every Bay Area Transit operator — crises we’ve covered extensively on Streetsblog — and sums up the situation bluntly: "There is no way to sugarcoat it: These are difficult, daunting days for public transit in the […]

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 […]

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