Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Oakland Airport Connector

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 […]

Social Justice Leader Condemns BART for Proceeding with OAC Funding

By Matthew Roth | Jun 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Image: BART. While BART will soon take a funding plan to its Board of Directors for the Oakland Airport Connector, Carl Anthony, the founder of Urban Habitat and a fellow in the Department of Geography at Berkeley, has called on the agency to wait to proceed with funding the OAC until the Federal Transit Administration […]

BART Moves Ahead With OAK Connecter Despite Civil Rights Violations

By Matthew Roth | Jun 22, 2010 | 17 Comments

Image: BART. Even though BART is not in compliance with the Federal Transportation Administration’s (FTA) Title VI civil rights regulations, the agency has sought funding from numerous local, regional, state and federal outlets to continue the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project, a three-mile elevated tramway that would connect the Oakland Airport with the Oakland Coliseum […]

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 […]

FTA Boss: “Paint is Cheap, Rails Systems are Extremely Expensive”

By Matthew Roth | May 21, 2010 | 18 Comments

SFMTA Chair Tom Nolan, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi at the groundbreaking for the Central Subway. Photo: mayorgavinnewsom. Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff has been shaking up transit agencies across the country in the short year he has headed the FTA, from working with advocates in the […]

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 […]

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