TransForm in the News

California Cities Need A Predictable Fund For Transit Operations
By:
Matthew Roth
April 13, 2009
Published In:
SF.STREETSBLOG.ORG
"It's impossible to address a green agenda without funding transit operations," said TransForm's Nick Caston.
California Could Start Requiring Drivers to Report VMT
By:
Matthew Roth
March 30, 2009
Published In:
SF.STREETSBLOG.ORG
"It's hard to see how we can be serious about setting regional targets for reducing driving, without knowing how much driving is really taking place," [said TransForm's Carli Paine.]  "This bill would provide a significant boost to our efforts to curb global warming pollution associated with driving and land use."
AC Transit Board Votes to Raise Fares
By:
Bryan Goebel
March 12, 2009
Published In:
SF.STREETSBLOG.ORG
"It's a disgrace that a transit agency serving predominantly low-income and working class people has to raise fares in the middle of an economic crisis. But, the state's repeated raid of dedicated transit funds have made fare hikes an inevitability for AC Transit and for public transportation agencies across California," said Carli Paine, the transportation program director at Transform.
Boy's death, girl's injury have Berkeley focused on street safety
By:
Kristin Bender and Katy Murphy
March 9, 2009
Published In:
Oakland Tribune
"It's sad that it takes tragedy like this to get everybody focused on safety," said [TransForm's Nora] Cody, whose program works with 50 schools in Alameda County.
Gas Price Crisis Pumps Up Transit Ridership
By:
Rachel Gordon
February 27, 2009
Published In:
San Francisco Chronicle

"Gutting public transportation funding is a new low for the state," Paine said. "With the state's commitment to reducing global warming pollution and the growing demand for public transportation, there's a mandate to make sure that transit is well funded."

Bay Area Stimulus Money Stirs Controversy
By:
Cecilia Vega
February 25, 2009
Published In:
KGO-TV/ABC 7

A plan to use $70 million of the stimulus money to build a three-mile BART extension from the Coliseum Station to the Oakland International Airport drew protests.... "We don't need star trek to the airport," said Transform Executive Director Stuart Cohen.

Public Transit Investment Fuels More Jobs
By:
Carli Paine
January 19, 2009
Published In:
New America Media

Public transportation is far more than a social service for people without cars. The truth is that buses, trains, and ferries are an integral component of local and regional economies – and must be central to the Obama administration's economic recovery package.

Transportation funding being rerouted
By:
Karen Holzmeister
January 16, 2009
Published In:
San Jose Mercury News

Safe Route to Schools, spearheaded by Oakland-based TransForm, shows parents and children ways to safely navigate busy streets.... [S]ince the program began two years ago, 40 elementary and 10 middle schools — including ones in Castro Valley, Cherryland and San Leandro — now participate.

Walking School Bus provides elementary kids with safe routes
By:
Shelly Meron
December 26, 2008
Published In:
Contra Costa Times

Susan Silber, education coordinator at TransForm, a nonprofit organization that encourages the use of public transportation and building of walkable communities, helps lead the Safe Routes to School program. Parents just need to be reminded of the benefits of walking to school, she said.

"The kids get more exercise when they're walking. Environmentally, it's a great way to reduce our carbon footprint, and it reduces traffic in the morning," she said. "It's also great community-building. It's like a play date before or after school. The kids have a great time with each other. Parents tell me, 'I enjoy this just as much as the kids.'"

Group tries to get transit funds restored
By:
Ron McNicoll
December 11, 2008
Published In:
The Independent
One non-profit that sticks up for public transit in the county, TransForm, has filed a "friend of the court" brief in a case that is trying to restore public transit funding. The suit is over transit money authorized by Proposition 116.
Local economy needs SMART
By:
Marucia Britto
October 29, 2008
Published In:
Marin Independent-Journal
The transportation experts also agree SMART is a good plan, and Transportation Authority of Marin, Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) and Sonoma County Transportation Authority all endorse measure Q.
Who says Americans won't ride mass transit?
By:
Katharine Mieszkowski
October 23, 2008
Published In:
Salon.com
It's especially lamentable because all those new riders are poised to become mass transit converts. But now, crowded buses and fare hikes could send them back to their cars." This is going to mean more people out there on the road, driving, creating more congestion for everybody and keeping transportation as our No. 1 source of global warming pollution," says Stuart Cohen, executive director of Transportation and Land Use Coalition...
Beyond the automobile
By:
Steven T. Jones
October 22, 2008
Published In:
San Francisco Bay Guardian
...as long as politicians choose to fund wasteful projects such as a fourth bore in the Caldecott Tunnel and transferring $4 billion from transit agencies to close California budget deficits accruing since 2000. "Our leaders need to be putting our money where our collective mouth is and stop raiding these funds," Carli Paine, transportation program director for Transportation and Land Use Coalition, told us. "I'm hopeful, but I think we all need to do more."
Prop 1A: High-speed rail would connect SD and SF
By:
Aaron Bruner
October 15, 2008
Published In:
The California Aggie
California High-Speed Rail would help achieve California's greenhouse gas reduction goals by replacing car and airplane trips with rail trips, said Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, in a written statement.
State To Vote on $10 Billion Train Prop.
By:
Kristin Ferrell
September 30, 2008
Published In:
Daily Nexus
In the Sierra Club's statement of endorsement for the bill, authored by Stuart Cohen of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, the group cited various environmental and economic potential benefits for the plan.

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