Transportation

COUNCIL EXPLORES WAYS TO FUND EXPANDED FERRY SERVICE

There’s plenty of water and plenty of potential riders. But expanding ferry service to help beat Bay Area traffic will also require funding.

COUNCIL PREPARES FOR TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

The Bay Area Council on Wednesday (Sept. 23) held a Joint Government Relations and Transportation Committee meeting with California State Senator B...

COUNCIL-BACKED BILL Seeks COMMUTE RELIEF FOR STATE’S GOLDEN GOOSE: THE 101 CORRIDOR

The Bay Area Council continues progressing on its initiative to bring widespread commute relief to the most economically productive region in the c...

GRIPPING NEW VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS RISKS OF OVERDUE EXTREME STORM, SEA-LEVEL RISE

The threat to the Bay Area of an overdue extreme storm comes into sharp, graphic focus in a new video released last week (Aug. 26) by a coalition o...

COUNCIL WELCOMES GOVERNOR’S DRAFT TRANSPORTATION FUNDING FRAMEWORK

The Bay Area Council reacted positively to a draft framework unveiled by Gov. Jerry Brown Thursday (Sept. 3) that would generate $3.6 billion annua...

COUNCIL-BACKED SF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GETS OK

A transit-focused residential tower the Bay Area Council Housing Committee recently endorsed that will add badly needed units to San Francisco’s ...

BAY AREA COUNCIL CEO JIM WUNDERMAN NAMED BY GOV. BROWN TO SERVE ON REGIONAL WATER EMERGENCY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman today (Aug. 31) was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Board of Directors of the Water Emergency...

WUNDERMAN NAMED ONE OF CA’S TOP 100 MOST POWERFUL (#51)

Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman (who asked that we not run this story - sorry Jim!) on Tuesday (Aug. 25) was named to what has become THE List i...

Preparing the Bay Area FOR a COMING MEGA-STORM

California is learning a hard lesson about inadequate drought preparation. But if California’s hydrological record teaches us anything, it’s th...

BAY AREA COMMUTE STRESS IS SECOND WORST IN U.S.

The Bay Area Council’s initiative to improve Bay Area commutes got an endorsement—in a manner of speaking—from Wednesday’s (Aug. 26) releas...
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