After a three-week initial count of nearly 300,000 ballots in San Mateo County, highway expansionists celebrated yesterday as updated results showed a sudden swing from 66.55 to 66.85 percent approval of Measure W, the half-cent transportation sales tax crafted by county transportation officials with heavy corporate influence. While election results…
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Sunnyvale police say suspected killer car driver Reina Robles may be trying to flee the country, after failing to find her despite locating her vehicle in Santa Clara on Friday. Police identified 55-year-old Robles as the suspected hit-and-run driver who struck and killed 73-year-old bicyclist Javad Hada at eastbound Central…
As Steve Heminger, the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission announced his retirement for next year, it’s important to look at one of the largest transportation related boondoggles in the United States over the last 3-5 decades. There is an excellent Oct. 13, 2015 citylab article entitled: From $250…
The San Mateo County Transit District’s (SamTrans) propaganda machine is in full swing, with Board members and local pro-highway front groups heaping unanimous praise on the agency’s “Get Us Moving” tax measure at the July 11 Board of Directors meeting. The 0.5-percent sales tax hike would spend between $500 and…
San Mateo County transportation officials are now pushing a new 30-year, $2.4 billion sales tax increase dubbed “Get Us Moving” that is astonishingly similar to the county’s existing – and failing – 2004 Measure A sales tax. Decision-makers insist that this sales tax measure, bloated with as much as $600 million dollars…
The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC) has taken over the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bike to Work Day advertising efforts and this has come at a good time for the primary sponsors of the Regional Measure 3: the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG). Former SVLG lobbyist Shiloh Ballard became SVBC…
Is there life beyond congestion? In November 2018 SamTrans will ask us to vote for a new one-half percent sales tax increase in San Mateo County. The money will fund an expansion of Highway 101 and various other highway and transit projects. We must vote NO on this long-failed and…
The San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SMCTA) has received applications from only 5 of the county’s 20 cities for funds from the agency’s Measure A Highway Program this year. SMCTA issued a call for projects in October, announcing that $75 million is available for expanding or maintaining highways and major…
Reconstructing the four-ramp full cloverleaf interchange at Highway 101 and Holly Street in San Carlos into a safer and higher-capacity partial cloverleaf has just become $4 million more expensive, according to an updated project budget approved the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SMCTA)’s December 7 Board of Directors meeting. Cost…
Just two weeks after announcing a public outreach campaign to solicit input on the San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans)’s “Get Us Moving” half-cent sales tax proposal, on December 6 the agency’s Board of Directors signed off on a list of seven goals the tax would aim to achieve by…