Year: 2009
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SFBC Bike Quilt: Biker Quilting Bees
"The Bike Quilt top is ready for quilting! Please come join us at a
weekly drop-in quilting bee on Wednesdays from September 23 to October
28. No quilting experience necessary, but comfort with a needle and
thread is helpful. Instruction and snacks provided. The quilt will be
raffled off at Winterfest in December to raise money for the SFBC."
October 7, 2009
Oakland Airport Connector Clears One More Hurdle
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 more expensive project from the $130 million dollar proposal supported by voters in 2000 without intermediate stops along Hegenberger Boulevard and with fares three times those originally promised, the groups argued in vain that the council should not support the existing proposal but should seek a surface Bus Rapid Transit option at one-fifth the cost.
October 7, 2009
BART Signs Deal to Upgrade Transit Technology
IBM's Smarter Planet project, which uses technology (and sometimes plain old polling)
in an effort to revamp urban infrastructure, today signed deals with
transit agencies based in Oakland, New York City, and Washington D.C.
to "smartly" manage the ins and outs of keeping trains and buses
running.
October 7, 2009