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Report Highlights Urgency in Fixing California’s Broken Permitting System

Mar 5 2025

The Assembly Select Committee on Permitting Reform, chaired by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), yesterday (March 5) released its report deta...

Council Calls for Efficiency Review to Restore Voter Confidence in Transit Funding

Feb 26 2025

As the region grapples with how to ensure that our trains, buses, and ferries continue to run, a new poll by the Metropolitan Transportation Commis...

Critical SF Commuter Bus Line Resumes Service after Council’s Advocacy

Feb 6 2025

A widely popular San Francisco bus line that daily shuttled hundreds of commuters from the Marina District and other northern neighborhoods to the ...

What’s In a Name? A Lot, It Seems

Apr 3 2024

The Port of Oakland last week announced it is considering modifying the name of the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport to the San Francis...

There’s a New Dolphin on the Bay

Mar 27 2024

On Monday (March 25) Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman joined his fellow SF Bay Ferry board members, Assembly Transportation Committ...

For Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Automobile Commuters, a New Feeling: Hope

Mar 13 2024

For morning commuters on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge who face a daily back-up that’s approaching 24 teeth-grinding minutes and can be much wor...

Behind Council Advocacy, Waymo Gets OK to Expand

Mar 6 2024

On Friday (March 1) state regulators authorized Bay Area Council member Waymo to expand its fully autonomous commercial ride-hailing service to mor...

Employers Pursue Many Strategies to Reduce Automobile Trips

Feb 28 2024

Some of the nation’s most innovative transportation professionals came together last week (Feb. 23) at the Bay Area Council’s TDM Task Force me...

Bay Watch: After Gains, Fall Transit Ridership Dips

Feb 21 2024

Despite steady if not slow progress in recovering transit ridership since the depths of the pandemic, luring passengers back to key systems remains...

Much Work Before Regional Transportation Funding Measure Is Ready for the Ballot

Feb 14 2024

As BART and other transit agencies work to recover ridership lost during the pandemic and the shift to remote work, the Bay Area Council last week ...

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