Recent Streetsblog SF posts about FTA

Muni Receives $21.4M in Federal Funds for New Buses, 8x Line Improvements

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2012 | 8 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency received more than $21 million in federal funds to purchase new buses and implement improvements like colored bus lanes, transit priority signals, and bus-mounted enforcement cameras, the agency announced today. The funds come from the Federal Transit Administration’s Livability and State of Good Repair grant programs. In total, the FTA will […]

MTC Confident on Civil Rights Policies, Clipper Card Rollout Begins

By Matthew Roth | May 26, 2010 | 8 Comments

The Clipper Card readers at the Lake Merritt BART Station. Photos: Matthew Roth. One development lost in the media feeding frenzy around the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) denying BART’s request of $70 million for the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) was a letter the FTA sent to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area’s planning […]

FTA Boss: “Paint is Cheap, Rails Systems are Extremely Expensive”

By Matthew Roth | May 21, 2010 | 18 Comments

SFMTA Chair Tom Nolan, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi at the groundbreaking for the Central Subway. Photo: mayorgavinnewsom. Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff has been shaking up transit agencies across the country in the short year he has headed the FTA, from working with advocates in the […]

MTC Meeting Tomorrow is Muni’s Best Chance for $17 Million

By Dave Snyder | Jan 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

A proposed alternative to the Oakland Airport Connector. Image: TransForm Muni riders have a chance at a reprieve from the one thousand hours per day of lost service that the MTA is proposing to cut in order to plug a $17 million deficit before the end of the fiscal year in June. The service cuts […]

Advocates Want Oakland Airport Connector Funds for Transit Operations

By Matthew Roth | Jan 25, 2010 | 13 Comments

Image: TransForm With the civil rights imbroglio between BART and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) making news last week, a problem that could imperil $70 million in federal stimulus funds obligated to the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), advocates are calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to give the stimulus money to cash-strapped transit operators […]

Bay Area Transit Agencies Eye Federal Oversight Proposal with Caution

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

A Muni LRV crash at West Portal station last July. Flickr photo: 2Girls1Queen The Bay Area’s major transit agencies are reacting with caution to news that the Obama administration will propose a federal takeover of subway and light-rail system safety regulation. Though administration officials have not yet released the proposal, Muni and Santa Clara Valley […]

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