Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Oakland Airport Connector

Oakland’s Stimulus Flap: A Shot Across the Bow for Transport Equity?

By Elana Schor | Jan 26, 2010 | No Comments

The Obama administration’s warning that the Bay Area has jeopardized federal stimulus funding for its Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project could have national consequences for other urban transit proposals that risk harming low-income riders, civil rights and transit advocates predicted today. The proposed Oakland Airport Connector train. (Photo: BART via Streetsblog SF) Several Bay Area […]

Advocates Want Oakland Airport Connector Funds for Transit Operations

By Matthew Roth | Jan 25, 2010 | 13 Comments

Image: TransForm With the civil rights imbroglio between BART and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) making news last week, a problem that could imperil $70 million in federal stimulus funds obligated to the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), advocates are calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to give the stimulus money to cash-strapped transit operators […]

BART Responds to FTA Rebuke, Defends Minority and Equity Practices

By Matthew Roth | Jan 21, 2010 | 2 Comments

Proposed Coliseum Station OAC connections. Photo: BART In a strongly worded reply to Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Peter Rogoff yesterday [PDF], a number of BART Board Directors and General Manager Dorothy Dugger contested the FTA’s assertion that BART has not complied with its obligations to minority riders under Federal Civil Rights Act Title VI […]

BART Scrambles on Oakland Airport Connector Equity Review Failure

By Matthew Roth | Jan 20, 2010 | 13 Comments

Image: BART BART hoped it could put debate over the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) in the past as it lined up funding, got approval from local governments, and received lower than expected construction bids, but now a scathing letter from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has sent BART scrambling to meet a March 5th deadline […]

BART Selects Parsons Transportation Team for Oakland Airport Connector

By Matthew Roth | Dec 10, 2009 | 19 Comments

Image: BART BART staff has announced the selection of the Parsons/Flatiron development team for the construction of its Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) and will ask its board today to approve the $492 million dollar contract to build the 3.2–mile elevated people mover. Due to the recession and lower construction costs, the OAC proposal comes in […]

Oakland Airport Connector Clears One More Hurdle

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2009 | 5 Comments

OAC image: BART Transit advocates, community groups, and faith-based environmental justice organizations made another plea to Oakland and regional policy makers to kill the half a billion dollar Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) with a resolution sponsored by Oakland City Council members Nancy Nadel and Rebecca Kaplan at their monthly meeting last night. Citing a significantly […]