
TransForm
You can make better public transportation and smarter growth happen in
2010! Give a year-end gift TODAY – and get chocolate, t-shirts, and more!
http://bit.ly/55xtMc
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With your help, we can make 2010 the year we fundamentally change how the Bay Area and California grow and how people get around.

sf.streetsblog.org
Among the many strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and attendant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private vehicles, Bay Area smart growth advocate TransForm has developed a new certification ...

TransForm
2009 closes on a huge upside. Donors to TransForm just experienced an $80-million return. http://transformca.org/rtp/ensuring-impo rtant-programs-regional-transportation-p lan-get-funded-climate-action-campaign
transformca.org

TransForm Oakland's own Little Las Vegas. Take a look at what the future may bring for the Oakland Airport Connector. Doppelmayr Cable Car (makers of the MGM CityCenter Shuttle and Mandalay Bay Tram) is part of the winning contract team.

TransForm The perceived short-term upside of the Oakland Airport Connector's jobs, jobs, jobs, bought federal stimulus funds and most of the BART Board. The long-term costs to be extracted from BART's core operating budget were enough for only one Board member to vote against it.
Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) | TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalitio
transformca.org
Despite months of leading the fight for BART to consider a faster, more affordable alternative to their proposed Oakland Airport Connector project, TransForm was saddened towitness the $492,000,000 project approved on December 10, 2009.

Livable Berkeley
 New TransForm study: "Windfall For All: How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate And Safeguard California's Economy"
The report finds that residents of the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego who have access to the best public transportation options are not only emitting far fewer gre...enhouse gas emissions on average, they are also spending billions less on transportation than residents who live in communities where public transportation is scarce.
www.prnewswire.com
Californians Could Save $31 Billion and Cut GHG Emissions by More Than One-Third by Living in Smart Growth Communities. Smart, Efficient Growth will Cut Infrastructure costs, Household Transportation Expenses, Lower Housing Costs & Increase Revenues.
November 24, 2009 at 12:01pm

Rex Naden I think Transform is making a real difference. Thanks for all your hard work! --Rex Naden

TransForm Hotel works and transportation advocates share the banner of social justice.
sf.streetsblog.org
Transportation advocates were caught off-guard last month when the ANSWER Coalition and other leftist groups declared that extended parking meter hours represented an assault on the poor and working class, ...

TransForm Car talk with developer Patrick Kennedy: "The best way to force [people] out of a car is to not provide them a place to park."
sf.streetsblog.org
When it comes to building new developments in the Bay Area, especially in San Francisco, the battle over limiting the construction of new parking spaces is pitched. Parking reform advocacy organizations ...

Andy Chow
November 19, 2009 - BayRail General Meeting: VTA Light Rail analysis
VTA is conducting a Comprehensive Light Rail Analysis focusing on making the system as productive and efficient as possible.
Time/date:
November 19, 2009 7:00pm
This
is the only public meeting scheduled on the Light Rail analysis before
the staff pr...esents it to the VTA Board early next year.
Special meeting location:
City of Mountain View, Council Chambers
500 Castro Street, Mountain View (by Mercy Street)
7:00pm

TransForm
Join TransForm: Safe Routes to Schools is hiring a full-time Education Coordinator. http://transformca.org/about-us/jobs-tra nsform

TransForm VOLUNTEER WITH GOOD CHEER: We've got stuffing, sealing, and stamping galore – so come help us get our mailing out the door! Food and drink will keep up your steam. We'll gather on November 18 and 19, from 11-1 and 5-7, in our Oakland team space; please RSVP to let us know when we might see your smiling face. If you're ...able to help, give a yelp (email Andréa Tyler at andrea@TransFormCA.org or 510.740.3150x372).

TransForm Tell U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to support Complete Streets policy adoption across the country.
action.smartgrowthamerica.org
Thousands of Americans of all ages have been struck down in the simple act of walking. These "accidents" overwhelmingly occur on roads that are dangerous by design, with little or no provision for people on foot, in wheelchairs, or on a bicycle.





















