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Panel challenges transit funding
OAKLAND - A minority advisory committee headed by a Mill Valley man is pushing a key Bay Area transportation funding agency to spend more money on transit in low-income areas, such as Marin City and the Canal neighborhood.
But a Metropolitan Transportation Commission committee Friday rejected a proposal to adopt guidelines on the issue, saying equity in transit was too hard to define.
But a Metropolitan Transportation Commission committee Friday rejected a proposal to adopt guidelines on the issue, saying equity in transit was too hard to define.
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Update: MTC Rejects Bid for Environmental Justice Principles
A Metropolitan Transportation Commission committee today rejected for now a request by activists that it adopt a set of "environmental justice principles" aimed at remedying alleged transit funding inequities for minority and low-income people.
However, Legislation Committee members said they will revisit the issue later this year after new members are assigned to the committee.
However, Legislation Committee members said they will revisit the issue later this year after new members are assigned to the committee.
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MTC Director Flip-Flops on Prior Support for Correcting Transportation Funding Inequities, Despite Recent Findings that Low-Income Bus Riders Get Short End of Stick
Suit alleging bias against AC Transit riders can proceed
A civil rights lawsuit claiming the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission discriminates against minority
riders by underfunding AC Transit can proceed, a federal magistrate in
San Francisco has ruled.
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Report: Local Bus Riders Shortchanged
Judith Scherr
A
study released Wednesday asserts that Bay Area Metropolitan
Transportation Commission funding policies maintain “separate and
unequal” transit systems.
The report that can be found at
www.publicadvocates.org was written by three organizations: Public
Advocates, Urban Habitat, and Communities for a Better Environment.
The
release of the report coincides with the 50th anniversary of the end of
a year-long campaign to win integrated bus service in Montgomery, Ala.
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Measures could net county billions
Caltrain
improvements, upgrades to U.S. Highway 101 and local streets, and new
low-income housing developments could all be in store for San Mateo
County if California voters approve propositions 1A, 1B and 1C on Nov.
7.
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California Environmental Justice Groups Oppose Proposition 1B
Urban Habitat Program in Oakland, the Labor/Community Strategy Center and Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles, Environmental Health Coalition in San Diego and the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties announced their opposition to the Transportation bond, Proposition 1B. While each group opposes the bond for different reasons, these diverse groups from across California have come together to voice opposition to Proposition 1B.
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MTC package to increase BART expansion projects
S.F. subway, smaller bus services also deemed worthy of funding
Erik Nelson
Subway, BART and bus projects, along with transit service for the Bay Area's lower-income riders, should get a boost from a $419 million funding package approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission on Wednesday.
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