
TransForm Hotel works and transportation advocates share the banner of social justice.
Source: 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."
Source: 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)
7:00pmRead More
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)
7:00pmRead More

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).Read More

TransForm Tell U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to support Complete Streets policy adoption across the country.
Source: 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.

Source: t4america.org
In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More than 43,000 Americans – including 3,906 children under 16 – have been killed this decade alone. ...

TransForm Bus Rapid Transit public meeting in Berkeley 11/19. Support BRT? Join us. Want to read that NIMBYs killed it? Stay home.
Source: transformca.org
If you would like to join TransForm at either the Nov. 19th or Dec. 9th Berkeley BRT community meeting, or you would like to stay up-to-date via email, please provide us with your information using the form below.

Jay Miller You don't really know your city until you take mass transit!

TransForm Will we see the loss of LOS? Imagine a city's bike and pedestrian plan having real weight in CEQA analysis.
Source: sf.streetsblog.org
California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old ...

TransForm One TransLink to rule them all? Bay Area MTC executive director sees joining of regional transit operations as a must. "It's going to have to be implemented," he said, "through leverage, persuasion and threatening the withholding of funds."
Source: www.sfgate.com
For years, observers of the Bay Area's 28 transit agencies - including the riders - have contemplated the obvious: Why not consolidate some or all of the operations?

Source: www.nytimes.com
American car buying has been guided by one grand philosophy: Which one do I want? But now, another question has begun to percolate: Do I need a car at all?

TransForm San Leandro will hold three community meetings to discss Bus Rapid Transit. Oct 22, 27 and Nov. 7. Visit TransFormCA.org to learn more: http://transformca.org/brt/san-leandro

TransForm No need to reinvent the wheel for safer bike and ped travel. NYC is leading the way and continues to outshine the Bay Area with more and more livable streets.
Source: sf.streetsblog.org
In some cities people are so desperate for bike lanes they'll mark their own. Elizabeth Press of Streetfilms in New York City, on the other hand, had this to say about the work the NYC Department of Transportation ...

TransForm It was hard to find a useful recap of the Oakland Airport Connector vote at the Oakland City Council. Finally came across the Oakland North publication by U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
After long, long night, city council supports BART airport connector – Oakland North -- North Oaklan
Source: oaklandnorth.net
Barry Luboviski of the Building & Construction Trades Council speaks in favor of the Oakland Aiport Connector during Tuesday's Council Meeting.




















