Today’s Headlines

  • Republican Senator from Missouri Wants to Kill High Speed Rail Stim Funding (CHSRB)
  • APTA Urges Congress to Provide $15 Billion in Stim Money for Public Transit (Progressive Railroading)
  • Building Mass-Transit Infrastructure Would Lift the Country Out of Recession (The Nation via Planetizen)
  • Anti-Environmental Legislators Make Some Outrageous State Budget Demands (Ca Progress Report)
  • More About Bikes on Caltrain and Today’s Board Meeting (SF Examiner)
  • NTSB to Investigate This Week’s BART Collison (SF Gate)
  • Committee Delays Action on Adding More School Crossing Guards in San Jose (Merc)
  • Tagged Ads Featuring Supervisor Bevan Dufty Moved From Some Muni Stations (BAR)
  • Schlage Lock Site Gets Okay for Redevelopment (Transbay Blog)
  • Santa Cruz Shows Off Its Bicycle Design Creativity in New Exhibit (Merc)

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Schumer Proposes $6.5B More for Transit in Senate Stim Bill

By Ben Fried |
Senator Chuck Schumer has unveiled an amendment to the Senate stimulus bill that would increase transit funding by $6.5 billion — to $14.9 billion overall. This would direct $2.9 billion more to transit, in total, than the House stimulus bill that passed last week. For the wonks out there, transit funding would break down like […]

Today’s Headlines

By Bryan Goebel |
MTC Committee Could Slash Stim Funds Today for Muni, AC Transit (Beyond Chron) President Obama: The Days of Building Sprawl Are Over (Veritas et Venustas) But the Days of Widening Highways Aren’t (VTA Watch) SF Parks Dept. Will Install 2,000 Parking Meters (SF Gate) Driver Stabs Off-Duty SF Bicycle Cop After "Traffic Altercation"(KTVU) Activists Demand […]

Today’s Headlines

By Matthew Roth |
BART Will Join Translink Later This Summer (SF Gate) Booming Bicycle Traffic to Sausalito Has Some Residents Upset (SF Gate) Survey Says Californians Willing to Limit Flights for High Speed Rail (Examiner) 511.org Offers Up to $100 for Driving in HOV Lanes (CC Times) Contra Costa Times Looks at Mileage Tax Debate ‘Back Seat Driver’ […]

Watch Now: House Rules Committee Debating Stim Package

By Matthew Roth |
For the C-SPAN junkies out there, watch the live discussion in the House about the merits of the Stimulus Plan.  As Streetsblog NYC reports, New York Rep Nadler and Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio have delivered their testimony for the Nadler amendment (PDF). Rules Chair Louise Slaughter and committee members Matsui, McGovern, and Diaz-Balart responded very […]

Today’s Headlines

By Bryan Goebel |
Muni’s Streetcar #1 to Undergo $1.9 Million Renovation (SF Gate) Oakland Planning Commission to Consider Changing Zoning Rules (SF Gate) What Makes People Afraid of Urbanism? (TOW via Streetsblog.net) Fog City Journal: "Newsom Allies Maneuver to Appoint Mazzola to GG Bridge Commish" Public Meeting on Presidio Main Post Canceled (SF Gate, SF Citizen) BAAQMD Offers […]

Senator Jim DeMint Wants to Eliminate Bike Stim Funds: Take Action!

By Bryan Goebel |
Senator Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who said that directing stim funds toward bicycle and hiking infrastructure will not help the economy or create jobs, has gone too far. He and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, another pro-highway Republican who is no friend of bicyclists, have just proposed an amendment that would kill all stimulus […]