Transportation Justice

By Richard Marcantonio, Managing Attorney Public Advocates. SB 1 (Beall) won two-thirds approval and went to the Governor’s desk late Thursday night. What does this multi-billion dollar a year [...]

Read the letter in its entirety here: Coalition Letter to Lawmakers on Mass Transit Funding

January 17, 2017 – Gas and Electricity Magazine explores the problems that ride-sharing services have created for the Oakland Airport-BART Connector. The Connector, long criticized as a [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2017 Contact: Isabel Alegría, 415-431-7434, ialegria@publicadvocates.org   On Tuesday of this week, Governor Jerry Brown released his state budget proposal [...]

Originally published in December of 2013 See Part 2 of this blog By Richard Marcantonio I’ve been asked more than once why, as a civil rights lawyer, I spend so much time working with community [...]

San Jose Mercury News reporter Erin Baldassari on why BART’s Oakland Airport Connector is losing money 2 years after it began operating. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article as [...]

Rogoff Letter to MTC and BART

In 2009, three San Francisco Bay Area organizations brought this complaint against the Bay Area RapidTransit District (“BART”) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order [...]

This letter was submitted to the California Department of Transportation Division of Rail and Mass Transportation in November 2016  on behalf of ten organizations. The letter makes [...]

March 12, 2015 Robert Fabela, Esq. General Counsel Valley Transportation Authority 3331 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134 RE: CEQA non-compliance of VTP 2040 Dear Mr. Fabela: On the consent [...]