TransForm in the News
July 5, 2008
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"At many parking lots, they were filling up very early in the
morning and forcing anybody who wasn't able to get there often to keep
on driving and drive all the way to work," Cohen told me, explaining
why his coalition lobbied BART to begin slapping a charge on their lots.
Stronger emissions plan urged
June 27, 2008
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Sacramento Bee
Californians
drive about 830 million miles each day, a figure projected to grow to
roughly 1 billion by 2020. The board's proposal would reduce that to
roughly 985 million miles daily, according to Stuart Cohen, executive
director of the Oakland-based Transportation and Land Use Coalition.
June 27, 2008
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The plan said improved land use and transportation planning could
cut emissions by an additional 2 percent by 2020 and 4 percent by 2030,
it said. An earlier report had put that reduction closer to 6 percent
by 2020, said Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation
and Land Use Coalition in Oakland.
June 26, 2008
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"...I think it will save us a lot of money and
allow us to invest that money for a future that's actually coming, not
for the future that we thought was coming 10 years ago," says Carli
Paine with the Transportation and Land Use Coalition.
Transit crunch may spark new vision
June 6, 2008
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People's Weekly World
In revised 2009 budget
projections announced May 15, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
proposed taking $1.4 billion from public transportation to help redress
a $15 billion shortfall in the nearly $102 billion general fund budget.
That translates into a 72 percent cut in state funds for Bay Area
transit operations, Carli Paine of the Transportation and Land Use
Coalition told the World.
Transportation group seeks to expand program for kids' safety
June 5, 2008
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Oakland Tribune
In a report released Thursday at a news conference at Chabot Elementary School, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition
asked for the money to spread its Safe Routes to Schools program to
more campuses. The program aims to help reduce car emissions around
schools and decrease child obesity by encouraging students and parents
to walk or bike to school.
Add 3 cent fee to gas prices to fund climate protection
April 13, 2008
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San Jose Mercury News
The costs of inaction are simply too high. Bay Area residents should be
able to decide for themselves whether it is time to join together and
do our part to stop this global experiment. Passing AB 2744 would do
just that; it would let the people decide.
Agency aims to make a zero-carbon train
February 7, 2008
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Oakland Tribune
Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and Land Use
Coalition, persuaded the authority to look into fostering a new network
of sources creating electric power from the sun, wind and underground
heat.
January 31, 2008
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Only 52 percent of residents of "disadvantaged communities" in
the Bay Area are within walking distance of a supermarket, according to
a 2002 study by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, a
partnership of regional advocacy groups.
January 31, 2008
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With over $100 billion to spend on transportation in
the next 25 years, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)
could make a big dent in these emissions if it spends these funds
strategically. That's why the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC), a
partnership of 110 organizations including the Sierra Club Bay Chapter,
is focusing on MTC's Regional Transportation Plan.
Tough choices on transit ahead
January 22, 2008
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
If approved by voters, the gas-tax measure would be phased in at 2.5
cents a year for four years - ultimately adding up to 10 cents more per
gallon, said Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and
Land Use Coalition, an Oakland-based group of 90 agencies from the
Sierra Club to Save the Bay.
January 11, 2008
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"Splitting the (spillover) money is a strong acknowledgement that the massive cut last year was not going to fight global warming and was just keeping commuters stuck in traffic," said Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, a Bay Area transit advocacy group.
$3 million in grants to be awarded today
December 19, 2007
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Oakland Tribune
The Oakland-based Transportation and Land Use Coalition would spend
$75,000 to develop a rating system to evaluate how well building plans
promote public transit use.
October 27, 2007
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Stuart Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition,
a transit advocacy group, suggested making transit free and offering
gasoline tax rebates to people below certain income levels.
September 28, 2007
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Walk and Roll to School is a great time to institute a new routine that includes walking to and from school.