BART
TRANSDEF Opposes VTA Sales Tax Measure B
09/04/16 Filed in: Climate
Change |
Transportation
Planning
The TRANSDEF Board has voted to formally oppose the
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA’s)
transportation sales tax measure. We have No
Confidence in VTA. Check out the websites of our
allies
Sierra Club
and
BayRail Alliance!
Measure B would double VTA’s sales tax. This is intolerable, when the Measure fails in three distinct policy areas:
Measure B would double VTA’s sales tax. This is intolerable, when the Measure fails in three distinct policy areas:
- BART to San Jose and Santa Clara is a horribly wasteful and ineffective response to the commuting challenges of Santa Clara County residents.
- The continued funding of highways is ultimately futile, as congestion will merely continue to get worse. See this study to learn how highway widening increases greenhouse gases over the long run.
- While Silicon Valley desperately needs great transit, VTA continues to operate a hopelessly ineffective transit system. Its plans allocate little of the Measure A proceeds to an Santa Clara County transit network.
Bay Area transit ridership down despite subsidies, enticements
02/09/15 Filed in: Transportation
Planning | MTC
In today’s Chronicle,
Matier & Ross write about how regional transit
ridership in the Bay Area has down for decades
despite the many billions of dollars MTC has put into
construction projects. This begs the question “Why?”
For us, the answer is simple: MTC’s unique
combination of indifference, incompetence and
unwillingess to do the hard work of policy
development has created a politicized unaccountable
system that works great for contractors, but does
little for Bay Area residents and commuters. See
related several posts on this site:
Bay Area
Basics; a
case study we did on MTC called Politics Trumps
Outcomes;
and a comment letter on how to set up a new
transportation pot of money so that it is not
wasted, as MTC’s resources have been.
Read More...
Oakland Airport Connector--Government at its Worst
12/12/09 Filed in: MTC | Transportation
Planning
Guy Span
wrote a powerful post on the decision
of the BART Board to put itself into serious debt,
in the midst of cutting service and not having the
funds to replace its cars.
Here’s the comment we posted: Read More...
Here’s the comment we posted: Read More...
Major new figure emerges in Bay Area Transportation Reporting
11/15/09 Filed in: MTC | Transportation
Planning
TRANSDEF
was exceedingly pleased to discover the blog of Guy
Span, available at Examiner.com. He wrote an in-depth
multi-part series on MTC decisionmaking that was, in
our opinion, the very best analysis we’ve seen. Check
out his List of Articles.
The BART Oakland Airport Connector
06/22/09 Filed in: MTC | Transportation
Planning
TRANSDEF blasted the
BART Board as having “an extreme indifference to
project cost.” Read
More...
Comments on the DEIS for BART to San Jose
05/08/09 Filed in: Transportation
Planning
Summary only available
when permalinks are enabled. Read
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Warm Springs BART litigation
03/04/09 Filed in: MTC | Transportation
Planning
TRANSDEF recently filed a taxpayers' lawsuit to
prevent Bay Area transportation agencies from
illegally sending BART over $315 million for
construction of its Warm Springs extension. Check it out.