Transportation (News)
Yee Fights to Save SF-to-LA High Speed Rail
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How global warming challenges the old Bay Area assumptions
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07/01/2008Repeat after me the first rule of environmental activism: "Think globally, act locally."
But wait. What do we do when global concerns are at odds with what we hold dear at home?
That question hangs over the Bay Area as surely as last week's smoke obscured our skies. The environmental agenda is being redefined by the very real threat of climate change. In the process, some of our basic articles of faith - such as keeping development away from the bays and the hills - could be called into question.
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Oakland gets big chunk to fund transit village at MacArthur BART station
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07/01/2008OAKLAND — A development project aimed at revitalizing the neighborhood around the MacArthur BART station won approval for millions of dollars in state funding last week.
The MacArthur Transit Village is a development proposal to create 624 new units of housing, 20 percent of which will be set aside as affordable rental units. It also includes a 400-space parking garage and new commercial space.
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Stronger emissions plan urged
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06/27/2008Environmental and land-use groups are urging the state Air Resources Board to bolster its plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions with more aggressive measures to slow the growth in the number of miles Californians drive.
At a public meeting Thursday, the board released the draft of a strategy to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020.
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House addresses high gas prices by investing close to $2 billion in public transportation
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06/26/2008House addresses high gas prices by investing close to $2 billion in public transportation
Responding to record-high gas prices and the rising use of public transportation, the House of Representatives today passed HR 6052, the Saving Energy through Public Transportation Act, by a vote of 322 to 98 which authorizes $1.7 billion dollars to transit agencies across America to expand services and reduce fares.
This investment is part of a long-term solution that gives Americans affordable and convenient alternatives to driving and allows transit agencies to keep up with drastic increases in ridership brought on by high gas prices.
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BRT Hits A Bumpy Road At Planning Commission
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06/27/2008Declaring that Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) “looks to me like a huge development scheme,” Berkeley Planning Commissioner Patti Dacey said she couldn’t cast a vote without more information about its potential impacts.
But for fellow Commissioner David Stoloff, “the first major public improvement of public transportation in 50 years” deserves strong support.
The one thing commissioners could decisively and unanimously agree on Wednesday night was to reject a second joint session with the city’s Transportation Commission so they could focus on the land use implications of the massive AC Transit project.
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Is Mass Transit Ready for a Commute Surge?
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06/26/2008If you think four dollar gas is expensive, think again. A major investment bank is predicting the price of gas will reach seven dollars in the next two years, forcing us to radically change our commuting habits. But are our transit systems ready for a massive switch to public transportation? With the governor is pushing to take $1.4 billion from public transit projects to bail out the state budget, the outlook is grim.
Mass transit wants riders, but seven dollars a gallon for gas is going to create a new kind of commute congestion.
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