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Open Letter: Bay Area Advocate Wants Planners for Second Transbay Crossing to do Better
If things go like the Transbay Terminal and the Central Subway, how many people reading this will be alive by the time a second Transbay tube is completed?
January 19, 2023
Are Embarcadero BART Fare Sweeps Justified?
As if there aren't enough unavoidable reasons trains are delayed, BART police created a new one
September 14, 2022
Berkeley Approves Zoning for BART Station Housing
The new TOD zone will allow up to 2,400 units of housing to be built at the two large BART station parking lots within the city limits. Next steps: develop and build the housing.
June 3, 2022
Memo Calls for Reconsideration of BART Extension Design
Mayor Sam Liccardo is concerned about a potential $3 billion cost overrun for the BART extension to downtown San Jose thanks to the deep-bore concept.
May 12, 2022
BART Disruption Highlights Need for Second Transbay Tube
It was a bad BART morning straight out of the before times, with overcrowding, cancelled trains, and a dangerously overflowing West Oakland BART platform
April 13, 2022
Easier Transfers Between BART and Muni
Maybe Muni and BART don't hate their customers after all? BART adds new platform-level fare gates in the subway
February 10, 2022
Commentary: San Jose BART Extension Needs a Rethink
It's time to jettison the ill-advised, deep, single-bore plan for the new BART subway
December 9, 2021
Commentary: BART Police, a Resolution
An open letter to BART's most pro-bike directors
November 12, 2021
Report: How to Prioritize Housing and Right-Size Parking at Transit Stations
TransForm analyzed plans for housing at several urban rail stations, offering ideas about how to best achieve goals on reducing single occupant vehicle trips to transit stations.
June 17, 2021
Bay Area Wants More Rail
Second set of Transbay tubes? New lines joining Sacramento and San Francisco directly? Seems the sky is the limit under new plan.
January 29, 2021
