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One Week Later: Rep. McCarthy’s Office Denies Meeting as Stop-the-Purple-Threat Keeps Rolling
"Stop the Purple Threat" might be paid for by anonymous donors, but the campaign to fight the subway continues to cost the school district a lot of money that could be spent on students.
October 22, 2018
L.A. Metro Set To Approve Mobility-On-Demand Pilot
Metro's Mobility On Demand pilot is expected to begin subsidized first/last mile Uber/Lyft type service
October 19, 2018
Truck Crash onto Gold Line Tracks Again Shows Need for 210 Freeway Barrier Fix
Caltrans should fix the freeway where vehicles repeatedly crash into the Metro Gold Line. At a minimum Caltrans should let Metro proceed with upgrades.
October 16, 2018
California High Speed Rail’s Plan for the Future
A Q&A with Boris Lipkin, Northern California Regional Director for the California High-Speed Rail Authority
October 10, 2018
Metro Receives Key Federal Approval for Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3
The federal government finally OK-ed L.A. Metro to proceed with construction of the $1.3B Westside Purple Line extension section 3.
September 21, 2018
Geary Subway? New Transbay Tube? Clean Trains? BART Candidates Discuss
SF Transit Riders hears from the six candidates for BART Board District 8, San Francisco
September 19, 2018
High-Speed Rail Conference Kicks off in San Jose
Update on HSR dovetails with Global Climate Action Summit taking place in San Francisco this week
September 11, 2018
Legislative Update: Housing at BART Stations
Building housing at BART stations should be a no-brainer, and BART has committed to it. But cities resist. A.B. 2923 would make it easier by giving BART authority to zone its lots rather than waiting for cities to do so.
September 6, 2018
Caltrain Electrification Charges Forward
Three-thousand steel poles, ten new electrical power facilities, and enough conduit to span 51 miles of tracks are just part of what's involved in Caltrain's $2 billion electrification project.
August 22, 2018
California Transportation Commission Approves Funding Allocations for Transit, Highways
The CTC approved $1.8 billion in allocation requests for highway projects--which includes $3.5 million for Active Transportation Program project--and $156 million for transit projects.
August 17, 2018
