regional planning

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Should We Change the Structure of the Bay Area’s Regional Government?

By Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director
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Image courtesy Flickr user J.G. in S.F.

This is a time of significant flux in the Bay Area’s regional planning landscape.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

How to Secure Transportation Funding? Commit to Growth

By Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, and Aaron Bialick, SPUR intern
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Image courtesy Flickr user Schaffner

The Bay Area is in the midst of a major planning initiative to identify where to grow and how to allocate scarce transportation dollars to support new population and jobs over the next 30 years.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Why the MTC's Toll Lane Plan Won't Meet the Goals of Road Pricing

By Aaron Bialick
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Image courtesy flickr user WSDOT

The Bay Area has a lot to gain from pricing its freeways. Two of the major benefits are money for transit and less highway congestion.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How will 1.7 million more people cross the SF Bay?

By Jordan Salinger and Egon Terplan
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Image by Denisa Trenkle

The San Francisco Bay Area is expected to grow by 1.7 million people in the next 25 years.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Which transportation projects will we give up on to help reduce emissions?

-BY STEPHEN TU
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Rendering of the Oakland Airport Connector train from Doppelmayr Cable Car

Tomorrow, April 27, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) will vote on a final

Monday, April 11, 2011

Saltworks debate: the pros and cons of bayfront development