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01/11/10 - TJPA Unveils New Transbay Transit Center Project Website
(Summary) Site Features Interactive Media, New Videos of “Grand Central of the West.” [More]
01/08/10 - Governor Proposes Yet Another Scheme To Raid State Transit Funding
(Summary) Latest Budget Plan Circumvents Recent Court Rulings
That Funding Diversions Are Illegal; $1.5 Billion in Jeopardy for 2010-11. [More]
12/07/09 - CalTrans Begins Long-Term Repairs to the Bay Bridge's Eyebar
(Summary) On Friday, Caltrans will begin its long-term repair of the failed eyebar on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that was discovered during the Labor Day closure. [More]
12/03/09 - Assembly Transportation Committee to Address California's Public Transit Funding Crisis
(Summary) Ongoing discussions between the California Transit Association and Assembly Transportation
Committee Chair Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park) have culminated in the scheduling of two
legislative field hearings to address the public transit funding crisis. [More]
09/25/09 - Grisly details of state cuts compiled online
(Summary) ‘Aftermath Archive’ catalogs consequences of transit funding crisis. [More]
09/11/09 - State Appeals Transit Ruling to Supreme Court
(Summary) Lower Court Ruled Funding Raids Violate Repeated Demands of Voters. [More]
04/16/09 - Transit Providers Join the Call for Budget Reform
(Summary) Association advises panel charged with modernizing state revenue laws. [More]
02/20/09 - Transit to see service cuts, fare increases
(Summary) The revised budget cuts state assistance for public transit operations for the remainder of the fiscal year, leaving just $76 million of the $306 million promised to operators in California when the original budget was adopted. [More]
01/10/09 - Editorial: The people must speak up for transit
(Summary) MOBILITY -- The ability of citizens to move about the communities in which they live and work -- is fundamental to the functioning of society. [More]
11/21/08 - Schwarzenegger proposes $230m cut in transit funding
(Summary) Facing a projected revenue shortfall of $24 billion over the next two years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a nearly $230 million hit to public transit, with the Bay Area bracing for a loss of almost $83 million. [More]
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