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Feds to help world's largest traffic tech test

with a much more sophisticated traffic reporting network than even the 511 system run in the Bay Area. In what is billed as the largest such experiment in the world, a consortium of academics, tech firms and government agencies will use upwards of 1,000 ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  25 Jun 2008
Related Topics: University of California Berkeley

AC Transit parcel tax headed for ballot

of $1 in fuel," AC Transit General Manager Rick Fernandez told the board. OAKLAND — Directors of the East Bay's largest bus agency voted Wednesday evening to place a measure on the November ballot that would raise as much as $14 million by possibly ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  11 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Oakland reaches deal over Caldecott bore

traffic in the afternoon. The project will allow four all-day westbound lanes and four all-day eastbound lanes. The City of Oakland is poised to drop its objections to a $420 million project to dig a fourth bore for the Caldecott Tunnel in exchange for ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  9 Jun 2008

Union Pacific Railroad balks at selling land for bullet train

executive director. He added that the system's planned routes "have always been adjacent to them, but not necessarily on, their right-of-way." Possibly complicating efforts to build a high-speed rail system in California, Union Pacific Railroad has ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  4 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Union Pacific,  Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Bus fare increases spark rally

increasing the one-way local adult fare from $1.75 to $2, saying it might drive away riders. OAKLAND — AC Transit riders protested outside City Hall and packed the Oakland City Council chamber Wednesday to oppose a package of bus fare increases, ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  22 May 2008

Transit advocates make their pitch to state lawmakers

serve those new riders. SACRAMENTO — While there's no shortage of people making rounds at the Capitol asking for more money from the state's cash-strapped treasury, those organized by the Oakland-based Transportation and Land Use Coalition on Tuesday ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Contra Costa Times,  20 May 2008
Related Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger,  Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Mahatma Gandhi,  Stanford University,  U.S. Republican Party

They bused us all up, threw away the Key

System and its cousins across the nation, then ripping up tracks and running buses instead. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sampling of transportation writer Erik N. Nelson's Capricious Commuter blog on getting around the Bay Area. A week ago, I prompted ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Inside Bay Area,  28 Apr 2008

TSA opens new flier lines at Oakland

OAKLAND If you're a regular flier you've been there: A frustrating wait behind people who need a little more time to organize their bags, kids and strollers. And if you're the mom or the dad with the crew, you've had to endure the huffing and puffing ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Inside Bay Area,  23 Apr 2008

Is California car culture really just a fairy tale?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sampling of transportation writer Erik N. Nelson's Capricious Commuter blog on getting around the Bay Area. close enough for The states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have reduced their gasoline usage to about a gallon lower ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Inside Bay Area,  21 Apr 2008

AC Transit welcomes bus system by lauding past

George Trochet was an apprentice adding machine repairman when he stepped up onto his first Key System transbay train in Berkeley, and he remembers being quite impressed. agency that bought up the assets of the private Key System, to help commemorate ...

From ERIK N. NELSON, Inside Bay Area,  19 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Mary King

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