Tag Archives: Berkeley transit
Comment: The BRTea Party’s Council Meeting
Alan Tobey has been following the plans for Bus Rapid Transit in Berkeley closely. Below he reports on the latest developments (read his previous post on the subject here):
Students of Berkeley politics at their most melodramatic will have an entertaining opportunity next Tuesday evening when Berkeley City Council takes up its choice of a local “build alternative” for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project planned for Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro – though the Council will not yet consider approval of the project itself.
The build alternative selected will, along with “no build” and “rapid bus plus” alternatives, be studied in the Final Environmental Impact Statement for their potential environmental impacts, including any potentially effective mitigations. Only after that FEIS is approved by AC Transit, the three city councils will have the chance to decide this fall what, if anything, to actually build.
Despite the restricted focus of Tuesday’s topic, BRT opponents are fervently gearing up to advocate stopping the project itself. At the meeting, public speakers are therefore guaranteed to be mainly negative and mainly off topic — ignoring the actual build-alternative agenda item in favor of “kill BRT now” demands. … Continue reading »
AC Transit’s 51 bus: an open letter
To: The AC Transit Board of Directors
From: John Seal, Oakland
I am writing again to express my displeasure with AC Transit’s decision to discontinue the 51 Line.
Upon reviewing the Revised Service Adjustments Plan released to the public on November 18, I find the section concerning the 51 most discouraging and not terribly enlightening. The Plan emphasizes that this is the most heavily used and most productive line in the system, but then refers to “crippling on-time performance … Continue reading »
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