Meetings, Meetings, Meetings
Quick rundown of transportation related meetings and events for the week of 4/21.
Where’s our Ferry Godfather?
Language for the state’s Ferry takeover language has been released and Alameda’s needs are again forgotten.
Mr Bean, traffic expert
the Fernside bikeway project highlights the problems that faces Alameda’s transportation planning.
Dance This Mess Around
At the Transportation Commission meeting tonight (12/12), the TC will be receiving a report on “Review of Practices to Evaluate Development Impacts to Bicycles, Pedestrians, and Transit.”
Don’t fall asleep just yet!
As boring and mundane as this sounds (and probably is to many), this is a big issue for our city and its future development.
Essentially the […]
Surrender
The guvernator signed SB976 yesterday, mandating, with the help of our local State Senator (Perata), and our local State representative (Swanson), that the state put together a plan to take over the Alameda ferry system within the next year.
The Guv and friends (Perata and the Alameda City Council) will be at the Alameda Ferry Terminal […]
More Than This
On February 23, 2007, California State Senator Torlakson whose district covers much of Contra Costa County, introduced Senate Bill 976 (SB976), a rather innocuous amendment to the California Government Code #66540.20 which spells out the authorities of the existing San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA). This bill was supported heavily by Senator Don […]
Don’t Pay the Ferryman
I sat in the back of the Council Chambers on Tuesday night, confident that what actually transpired on the issues of the ferries (voted to hold a meeting, accept the staff recommendations and work on the problem in the clean up language) and Alameda Municipal Code changes (approve them) would transpire.
I left a little unsatisfied, […]
In Bloom
The last three posts have all been about existing transportation city policy, so now it’s time to make the great leap to proposed policies. It’s good to remember that the General Plan is suppose to be updated every 10 years and that it’s been 16 years since it’s been through an update. This isn’t just […]
Breed
Today, I’ve wrapped up the pages for the existing city policies on the use of the city roadways with a quick rundown of what the existing General plan has to say about non-automotive forms of transportation. Because of the passion that public transit always brings to the debate, I’ve separated it into its own page, […]
Stay Away
So really quickly, I realized that I had left off the Truck Route information on the Existing policies page I created about roadway policies in Alameda. I have added it at the end, but in the interest of reducing mouse-clicks for the RSI inclined, here’s the addition:
Truck Routes
The city’s truck route policy comes under the […]
