By Autumn Bernstein, Stuart Cohen, and Eliot Rose
Many SB 375 watchers have opined that the law’s success will require a “marathon, not a sprint” since the inertia of existing transportation...
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10/14/2011
On September 28, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission approved submitting an application to the California Transportation Commission for authority to build a network of Express Lanes. The...
09/27/2011
LATE-BREAKING NEWS! Just-released independent analysis is a powerful critique of MTC Express lane application: "we find MTC’s evaluation to be an overly optimistic portrayal of project benefits...
09/06/2011
On Friday, Sept 9, the MTC Planning Committee will be asked to approve a multi-billion-dollar express lane network that fails to reach its potential to increase the quality of life for all Bay...
07/21/2011
Transportation funds should reward cities that do the most to plan and deliver sustainable and equitable development near transit. The "Strategic Investments for a Better Bay Area" platform,...
06/21/2011
As we reported in our last blog post, advocates and advisory committee members came out in droves to the June 10th joint meeting of the MTC Planning Committee and ABAG Administrative Committee to...
06/10/2011
This morning the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Planning Committee heard a report on five “Alternative Scenarios” that staff from MTC and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG)...
05/17/2011
Every four years our nine county Bay Area goes through a planning exercise where county transportation agencies, regional planning agencies and a Commission of elected officials prioritize how to...
05/02/2011
As the Bay Area’s regional agencies gets rolling on its first-ever Sustainable Communities Strategy, there was incredible enthusiasm for their ten adopted targets. Sure, SB 375 required two of...
04/27/2011
Anyone who thinks American public process is dead should have come out for today’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission meeting.
The Commission today voted on the Planning Committee’s...
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