After two weeks of unannounced, cooperative and urgent meetings, BART and its unions have moved beyond difficult relations in the past, and have a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract.
A big bundle of joy arrived a few weeks ago: BART's first new car. Until this week, the public has not had a peek at the system's proud new sample of BART's Fleet of the Future.
Artists should probably be clamoring for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to express their talents with a once-in-a-lifetime medium: actual steel from the Bay Bridge.
Former MTC Executive Director Larry Dahms, former ABAG Executive Director Revan Tranter and long-time former MTC and BART employees returned to the MetroCenter for the final Commission meeting in Oakland.
MTC was invited to tour the construction of San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency's Central Subway project, a large-scale underground infrastructure project designed to extend the exising T-Third Light Rail north to Chinatown.
Funded entirely by regional toll dollars, the SR-160/HWY-4 ramps eliminate the U-turn that was previously required at Hillcrest Avenue, reduce through traffic and congestion on Oakley's city streets, and improve access for Eastern Contra Costa County.
