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FTA Rejects Federal Stimulus Funding for BART Oakland Airport Connector
The big news from the day: even though BART and FTA have been working the past couple weeks on a plan to correct the Title VI deficiencies in BART’s Oakland Airport Connector project, today Peter...
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Is the Oakland Airport Connector Dead?
Last week brought the great news that FTA refused to disburse $70 million of ARRA federal stimulus dollars to the BART Oakland Airport Connector. The natural follow-up question is one I have now been...
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AC Transit prepares for its next round of service cuts
Even while AC Transit moves forward to piece together needed approvals for the locally preferred alternative of its planned bus rapid transit route — last week, the Oakland City Council unanimously...
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AC Transit delays its BRT vote, awaiting a reversal from Berkeley
The past few months have been unbelievably busy, so I never got a chance to write a post covering the discussions that have taken place in the past several weeks in the East Bay, regarding the Locally...
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A new direction for the BART Board of Directors: The choice is ours
Compelling candidates challenge incumbent BART directors in District 8 (San Francisco, left) and District 4 (Oakland/Alameda, right). If there is a silver lining to be found in the protracted Oakland...
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Let them have parking lots
Let them have parking lots while waiting for high rises? This week, the Oakland Planning Commission will consider a peculiar concoction brewed up by Planning Department staff called temporary...
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Could parking policy benefit from more regional oversight?
This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officially launches SFpark, a program that implements the type of demand-based pricing scheme advocated by Donald Shoup. Through SFpark,...
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A short-lived attempt
Is the Oakland Airport Connector “too costly to stop,” as Matier & Ross wrote at the Chronicle? BART director Robert Raburn, who was elected in part on an anti-OAC campaign in the very same...
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A hole in the Broadway-Valdez plan?
In Oakland, the Broadway-Valdez District Specific Plan has moved forward in fits and starts, but the desire remains to unlock the potential of vacant and underutilized parcels along Broadway Auto Row...
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How the OAC fares: An updated financial outlook
BART’s Oakland Airport Connector now under construction may be soaring through the air above Hegenberger Road, but its projected operating budget lies much closer to the ground — so close that it’s...
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