Transportation

DAMNING REPORT FROM LEGISLATURE ADMITS CEQA STOPS HOUSING

California’s soaring housing costs are the primary reason the state’s poverty rate (23 percent) is the highest in the nation and why the state ...

KEY THUMBS UP FOR COUNCIL’S WORK TO BUST HIGHWAY 101 GRIDLOCK

The Bay Area Council’s Highway 101 initiative is picking up steam and supporters, including a welcome endorsement from new California Transportat...

TRANSPORTATION TECH-CONGRESS COLLIDE AT COUNCIL MEETING

The Bay Area Council under the leadership of Transportation Committee Chair and Arup Principal John Eddy on March 12 hosted an invigorating discuss...

UPCOMING STUDIES EXPLORE CRITICAL CA, BAY AREA ISSUES

What does California need to do to ensure it has the energy and communications infrastructure necessary to compete globally? Is the Bay Area prepar...

PENINSULA’S HIGHWAY 101 TRAFFIC CRISIS DESERVES AND GETS ACTION

The Bay Area Council’s work over the past year to speed traffic relief on the badly congested Highway 101 corridor between San Francisco and San ...

PROPOSED HOUSING MORATORIUMS: GREAT IDEA OR MADNESS?

The Bay Area Council is responding quickly to a troubling move by several Bay Area cities to impose moratoriums on new housing. After the Council v...

TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE CELEBRATES MICHAEL SCANLON

Michael Scanlon, the retiring General Manager of the San Mateo County Transit District, was the featured speaker at the Bay Area Council Transporta...

FORUM HIGHLIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES FOR TRI-VALLEY REGION

The Tri-Valley is fast emerging as a new, white-hot technology and innovation powerhouse for the Bay Area, according to a report by the Bay Area Co...

ADVOCACY PAYS OFF FOR EASING NORTH BAY CONGESTION

Just days after the Bay Area Council convened top leaders to rally support for fast-tracking the re-opening of a third lane on the Richmond-San Raf...

DAMAGING PORT SHUTDOWN MUST END

The Bay Area Council this week (Feb. 13) publicly called for an end to the more than nine-month labor dispute that has brought the Port of Oakland ...
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