BayRail Alliance and Funding for Transit in the News

September 4, 2007, Gilroy Dispatch: “Sweeping Changes Arrive at VTA”

July 10, 2007, Gilroy Dispatch: “VTA Seeks Smaller Tax Increases”

June 13, 2006, Gilroy Dispatch: Column: “SCCo. Supe Gage missing the point on tax defeat ”

February 27, 2006, Gilroy Dispatch: Column: "Will Supervisor Don Gage Stand Up to the Silicon Valley Pressure?"

December 16, 2005, Mountain View Voice: Op-Ed: “Caltrain a better transit option than BART-to-San Jose”

December 9, 2005, Gilroy Dispatch: Op-Ed: “Rail Transit Plan Far Better than BART – Money for Roads, Too”

December 7, 2005, Palo Alto Weekly: Guest Opinion: “'Caltrain Metro East' -- a better transit plan than BART-to-San Jose”

December 2, 2005, Mountain View Voice: Guest Opinion: “BART is a poor solution to our transit ills”

December 1, 2005, SF Chronicle: Op-Ed by Urban Habitat: “End funding discrimination in public transit”

November 30, 2005, Gilroy Dispatch: Letter: “Rail Improvements Vastly More Efficient Transit Solution than BART Add-on”

November 25, 2005, East Bay Business Times: Op-Ed: “Santa Clara debate: Caltrain to Fremont?”

November 18, 2005, San Jose Business Journal: Op-Ed: “Area transit needs fresh thinking, not a new tax”

September 20, 2005, San Jose Mercury News: “Report revises BART outlook  More riders, higher cost projected for San Jose extension”

November 19, 2004, San Jose Mercury News: Op-Ed: “Beyond the BART myth:  Efficient alternatives cost far less than $250 million per mile”

December 13, 2003, Oakland Tribune: Article:  “MTC adopts bare bones transit plan $109 billion, 25-year plan cannot keep up with cost of transportation maintenance”

October 31, 2003, Hollister Pinnacle: Article: “Gage worried about transportation projects  Supervisor says BART extension could doom Caltrain improvements”

October 28, 2003, Gilroy Dispatch: Editorial: “BART to SJ: pet project an albatross for taxpayers”

October 15, 2003, Gilroy Dispatch: Article: “BART shackles Caltrain  In lieu of BART, County Supervisor Don Gage is pushing for an electrified Caltrain and another line of track from San Jose south”

September 10, 2003, San Mateo County Times: Article: “BART extension running out of money  SamTrans, BART to hash out where to find new operating funds”

August 29, 2003, Silicon Valley Biz Ink: Article: “VTA commuter service cuts hinge on courts”

June 25, 2003, Sunnyvale Sun: Article: “Riders face an August rate hike; fewer lines in January”

May 23, 2003, San Jose Business Journal: Article: “Capitol Corridor budget holds, but don't expect earlier trains”

March 7, 2003, Bay City News: Article: “Group says BART to SJ is siphoning funds from transit”

November 22, 2002, San Jose Business Journal: Article: “VTA selling land to meet payroll”

September 21, 2002, San Jose Mercury News: Article: “Proponents of high-speed rail plan need specifics to sell voters by 2004; High-Speed Summit”

July 19, 2002, San Jose Business Journal: Article: “Beyond engineering work and electric trains is money issue”

July 12, 2002, San Jose Business Journal: Article: “$2 billion measure paves way for roads”

July 10, 2002, San Jose Mercury News: Op-Ed: “All aboard for Caltrain electrification”

June 11, 2002, San Mateo Independent: Article: “Caltrain out of joint over track electrification  Santa Clara may not come up with money for its share”

June 7, 2002, Palo Alto Daily News: Article: Caltrain budget stalled; It's BART vs. Caltrain”

April 6, 2002, San Jose Mercury News: “Caltrain trips will cost a little more  Other agencies consider changes to offset budget woes”