Comments on: Public transit rolls full speed ahead in 2008 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/ Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: murphstahoe http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4487 murphstahoe Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:20:43 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=738#comment-4487 It’s not so obvious, but if you click on “per 295bus” in my comment, you will go to the following link

http://295bus.blogspot.com/2008/12/beware-post-election-announcements.html

On that blog entry, the following link takes you to the mercury news story.

“The VTA priority: BART — and everything else will have to wait”

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_11202750?nclick_check=1

]]> By: Queen http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4486 Queen Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:40:00 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=738#comment-4486 Big thanks, murph, but for some reason the link didn’t come through. Can you tell me the name of the reporter who wrote the story, and I’ll google? Sure appreciate it.

]]> By: murphstahoe http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4485 murphstahoe Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:36:57 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=738#comment-4485 Local Bus Lines.
Express Bus Lines.
Light Rail Extension.
Caltrain Electrification.

Follow the link in the first comment for 295bus’ commentary, including a link to the Mercury News article on the VTA meeting.

]]> By: Queen http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4484 Queen Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:22:29 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=738#comment-4484 Murphstahoe, when you refer to “everything else,” does that mean the local bus lines?

]]> By: murphstahoe http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/15/public-transit-rolls-full-speed-ahead-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-4483 murphstahoe Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:06:13 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/?p=738#comment-4483 Santa Clara voters got hoodwinked. Proposition B passed, and immediately thereafter VTA announced it would be cutting everything else in order to make sure the BART extension could get funded, despite claims to the contrary prior to the election.

per 295bus

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