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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 […]
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 […]
Today’s Headlines
By Bryan Goebel |
Despite MTC Promise, Caltrain’s Future “Very Much in Doubt” (SM Daily Journal) Lawmaker Proposes Transit-First Policy for Calif. Coasts (Calif. Streets via Jeff Wood) SFPD Begins “Quietly” Enforcing the Sit/Lie Ordinance (SF Examiner) City Hall Hearing Focuses on Complaints About Segways in Golden Gate Park (SF Gate) This Could Be the Week SFMTA Chief Nat […]
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 […]
Today’s Headlines
By Aaron Bialick |
Caltrans Endorses the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide and Protected Bike Lanes (PFB) Happy Walk to Work Day — Press Conference Outside City Hall at 10 A.M. (SF Weekly, Hoodline) SFPD Chief Talks Ped Safety at Elementary School (ABC, CBS), SFPD and Avalos in Ingleside (CBS) Driver Critically Injures Three-Year-Old Boy on Bike at Fulton and 43rd […]