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AB 3034 Passes Senate Transportation and Housing Committee

Posted by Eric ⋅ 2 July 2008 ⋅ 1 Comment

AB 3034 passes Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. Erik Nelson from the Oakland Tribune reported that the Cathleen Galgiani’s high speed rail bill AB 3034 was approved 8-4 in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee; meanwhile, a few days ago, Debra Bowen assigned the prime-time position of Proposition 1 to the $9.95 billion HSR bond … Continue reading →

A SMART Pipe Dream

Posted by Eric ⋅ 2 July 2008 ⋅ 4 Comments

Please click here to read the previous post, which adds a bit of context and motivation for this post. Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) will likely be going up for the ballot again this November. Most recently, in the November 2006 election, the Measure R quarter-cent sales tax for SMART failed — falling just … Continue reading →

Missing Geary Misses the Point

Posted by Eric ⋅ 2 July 2008 ⋅ 3 Comments

Over a year ago, before this website was born, the conceptual proposals were released for Bay Area regional rail expansion projected for the next 50 years. Included among the plans is a second tube for the San Francisco-Oakland Transbay corridor, providing additional core capacity for a crucial regional link that is already a bottleneck point … Continue reading →