Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Funding

GOP Blocks Plan to Use Bailout Fund to Preserve $8.7B in Transport Money

By Elana Schor | Oct 1, 2009 | No Comments

A bipartisan bid to extend existing federal transportation law for three months — and tap the TARP bailout fund to avert the cancellation of $8.7 billion in contract authority — was rejected on the Senate floor last night after GOP senators insisted on using stimulus money, rather than bailout cash, to fix the problem. Was […]

AC Transit GM Proposes Diverting BRT Funds For Operational Shortfall

By Matthew Roth | Sep 25, 2009 | No Comments

Image: AC Transit One day after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tooted his own horn on climate change and carbon reductions mandated under AB 32, another California transit operator is taking drastic steps to stop the hemorrhaging of its operations budget by cutting back on future innovation, in no small part due to the fact that the […]

MTA to Begin Repairing Fleet of Damaged LRVs

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 14, 2009 | 7 Comments

An unidentified Muni light rail vehicle with serious damage from a wreck. Photo: MTA The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors is expected to vote tomorrow to approve up to $217,634 to repair two damaged Muni Metro light rail vehicles. Muni currently has ten LRVs that are out of service due to damage […]

SamTrans to Raise Fares and Cut Nearly All Express Routes

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 9, 2009 | 4 Comments

Four of these six routes will be discontinued or have reduced service. Flickr photo: 4nitsirk The SamTrans Board of Directors voted today to cut nearly all express routes to San Francisco, reduce service on several local lines, and raise adult one-way fares by 25 cents in an effort to narrow a $28.4 million budget deficit. […]

Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against BART Over Oak Airport Connector

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

Oaklan Airport BART Station rendering. Image: BART Transit advocates and community groups have filed a complaint (PDF) with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), charging that BART has not complied with federal civil rights obligations in its planning of the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC). The move by Public Advocates Inc. on behalf of TransForm, Urban Habitat […]

Cable Cars a Popular Tourist Draw But How Should We Pay for Them?

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 31, 2009 | 26 Comments

Flickr photo: laverrue Cable cars are icons of San Francisco, a draw of tourist dollars far beyond their fare revenue, and living pieces of San Francisco history and transit. They’re also protected in the city’s charter, just like the Transit First policy, though perhaps with greater force. Like the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars bring […]

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