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Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics
By Matthew Roth |
Governor Schwarzenegger sent a letter Tuesday to President-elect Obama encouraging massive expenditure in the federal stimulus package on a host of projects in California. The letter comes a month after the governor and president-elect discussed the stimulus package in person: When we met, I had identified $28 billion in infrastructure projects ready to break ground […]
Today’s Headlines
By Bryan Goebel |
Caltrain Set to Hold Hearings on Proposed Fare Hikes and Service Cuts (SF Gate, Merc) Capitol Corridor Seeks Funds to Improve Service to Placer, Alameda Counties (Sac Business Journal) CNN: "Is the U.S. Turning a Corner on High-Speed Rail?" SFMTA Can Act Now and Later to Create a Better Masonic (BIKE NOPA) CHP Officer on […]
MTC Public Hearing on Proposed Oakland Airport Connector
By Michael Rhodes |
MTC proposes to redirect savings in Regional Measure 2 funds from the BART Tube Seismic Strengthening project to the Oakland Airport Connector project. At this meeting, MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee will hold a public hearing and review the public comments received on the proposed RM2 funding change. Public Hearing notice
Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector
By Matthew Roth |
How will you get to the Oakland Airport in 5 years? The debate over how to spend the federal transportation stimulus money at the regional level is heating up and may boil over tomorrow morning at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting. As we reported here two weeks ago, the nine-county Bay Area will […]
MTA Hearing on Bike Plan Packed, Mayor to Hold Presser at 3 pm
By Matthew Roth and Bryan Goebel |
Bicyclists waiting to testify outside MTAB meeting. The MTA Board is just hours away from finally approving the Bike Plan, and is currently hearing testimony from 200 supporters — a cross section of cyclists including business and home owners, mothers with children, families, and people with disabilities — who were organized by the San Francisco […]