May 2009 - Transpo - list.sfgreens.org

URGENT!! Supes Vote TUESDAY Raising Fare Evasion Fines Up To $500!
by Eric Brooks 30 May '09

30 May '09

URGENT! Supervisors Bevan Dufty and David Chiu have snuck an item onto this Tuesday's Board of Supervisors 'Adoption Without Committee Reference' calendar to direct the MTA to raise fare evasion fines as follows: *33.* *090657 <http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/09065…>* *[Urging the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors to increase the fines for fare evasion for first, second and third time offenders]* *Supervisors Dufty, Chiu* Resolution urging the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors to increase the fine for first time fare evasion from $50 to $75 and increase the fine for second time fare evaders to $250 and increase the fine for third time fare evaders to $500. 5/19/2009, REFERRED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. *Question: Shall this Resolution be ADOPTED?* We should contact Daly, Avalos, Campos, etc. and ask them to send this measure to committee! peace Eric Brooks -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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Bus riders at the back of the stimulus bus
by Ann Garrison 30 May '09

30 May '09

Bus riders at the back of the stimulus bus http://tinyurl.com/lx6sp4 Of course I wanted to blame Gavin Newsom for this local transpo debacle, but then I realized how much the federal stim bill had to do with it. Highways and bridges got more than twice the stim funds that public transit did, and public transit got no immediate operating help to stop fare hikes, serviuce cuts, etc. This is happening all over the country. Chicago may have reached into its capital fund to stop it there.

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Board Pres Chiu Betrays Transit Promises Approves Oppressive Muni Budget
by Eric Brooks 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi all, At around 12:50 pm today, during a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors which was held to decide whether to reject a draconian Muni budget that is balanced on the backs of the poor and environmentally conscious non-drivers; Board President David Chiu betrayed his own campaign promises, and Supervisor Sophie Maxwell yet again betrayed the many residents in her own district who depend on public services like mass transit for social equity. Both voted not to reject the Muni budget and to instead accept a transit budget which makes transit riders pay four times what car drivers will pay to supposedly stabilize our transportation funding in San Francisco. Please let supervisors Chiu and Maxwell know how displeased you are with their cowardly deferral to the Mayor's office and to higher income voters who do not want to accept environmentally crucial increased parking fees. David.Chiu(a)sfgov.org 415-554-7450 sophie.maxwell(a)sfgov.org 415-554-7670 See a copy of Supervisor Chiu's election flyer with its now broken campaign promises attached. peace Eric Brooks -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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Reminder: Joint Meeting: Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups, Today, May 18, 6:30-9pm, SFGP Office
by Eric Brooks 18 May '09

18 May '09

Joint Meeting: Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups When: Monday, 5/18/09, 6:30PM-9:00PM Where: SFGP Office, 1028A Howard St Proposed Agenda Items - Transit Budget - Elected MTA Board - Closing Last SF Power Plant / New 100% Clean Energy Act - Update On Privatized Sunset Solar Installation - Update On Community Choice Energy project (now Clean Power SF)

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Call SF City Hall To Save Mass Transit!
by Eric Brooks 18 May '09

18 May '09

(Please forward this message widely to all San Franciscans you know who care about creating a better future through improved mass transit.) PHONE-IN DAY ALERT Save San Francisco Mass Transit! Call Supervisor Sophie Maxwell now! Earlier this month the Municipal Transportation Authority (MTA) proposed a budget which drastically raises Muni fares while heavily cutting service. As a result, San Franciscans riding Muni will shoulder a burden that is 4 times higher than all parking and enforcement fee increases in the same proposed budget. Meanwhile, the MTA coffers have been bilked by over $60 million in service order charges from other City departments, to pay for work that those departments should be doing anyway without charging the MTA anything! Those funds could go to creating a world class transit system if the Board of Supervisors votes to reject the budget and demand accountability. Tomorrow, Tuesday May 19, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on whether to reject this deeply flawed MTA budget. Supervisor Sophie Maxwell has been identified as the key swing vote on this issue and needs to hear from you! WHAT YOU CAN DO: Call Supervisor Sophie Maxwell today at: 415-554-7670 with the following message: "Please reject the MTA budget until it recovers enough service order funds and parking fees to get rid of all Muni fare increases and service cuts." (If you get a recording, or you are calling after business hours, just leave your comment as a voice mail message.) THEN: SHOW UP AT TODAY'S TRANSIT JUSTICE RALLY, TO DEMAND A BETTER MUNI BUDGET! Monday, May 18, 3pm, SF City Hall, Polk Street Steps DIRECTIONS: To get to the rally, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister). Thanks as always for your action and support. peace Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City -- This alert sent by: Our City 1028-A Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-756-8844 For more information about Our City campaigns go to: http://www.our-city.org info(a)our-city.org

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Fwd: Stop the "clean energy" bank--this is it folks!
by Ann Garrison 14 May '09

14 May '09

To fuel all the electric cars that Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Gavin Newsom consider the solution to global warming. Begin forwarded message: > From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service <nirsnet(a)nirs.org> > Date: May 14, 2009 9:31:34 AM PDT > To: anniegarrison(a)mac.com > Subject: Stop the "clean energy" bank--this is it folks! > Reply-To: nirsnet(a)nirs.org > > Nuclear Information and Resource Service > THIS IS IT FOLKS! > > EITHER WE STOP THE "CLEAN ENERGY" BANK OR WE GET DOZENS OF NEW > NUCLEAR REACTORS > > WE CAN WIN THIS ONE: ACT NOW! > > > May 14, 2009 > > Dear friends, > > We've asked a lot of you this past several months. As the Obama > administration has moved into power, the pace of activity has > increased; we know that. > > So we don't waste your time asking you to take actions that aren't > meaningful. > > And right now, we're asking you to take the most important action > of the year. > > Write your House member and Speaker Nancy Pelosi now. And then > forward this message to everyone you can think of. > > Write your House member here. > > Write Speaker Nancy Pelosi here. > > We should have figured it out earlier, but we didn't. The section > in the bill was so obscure we all missed it. But the "Clean Energy > Bank" legislation sponsored by Senate Energy Committee Chairman > Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) includes UNLIMITED > taxpayer loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors. > Not $50 Billion, or $100 Billion. UNLIMITED! > > In other words, under the guise of a clean energy program, the > nuclear power industry could get taxpayer money to build as many > reactors as they wanted, regardless of their cost, regardless of > their projected default rate. > > That's just unacceptable. > > We need to act on this as loudly and clearly as possible. > > Write your House member and Speaker Nancy Pelosi now. And then > forward this message to everyone you can think of. > > Write your House member here. > > Write Speaker Nancy Pelosi here. > > PLEASE forward this Alert to everyone you can think of. In 24 > hours, we generated more than 3,000 letters in opposition to the > pro-nuclear Murkowski amendment to the Senate energy bill. That's > pretty good for one day, and we thank everyone who wrote (the > Murkowski amendment has not yet been considered, it will likely > come up next week). But we need to generate at least 10,000 letters > to Pelosi and House members to stop this fake "clean energy" bank. > Please help everyone you can think of to send letters now by > forwarding this Alert. Phone calls to House members would be very > effective too: 202-224-3121. > > A NIRS blog posting on the "clean energy" bank is available here. > It provides a lot more background info on this issue. You have our > permission to re-post this everywhere and anywhere you want. Please > do so. > > This really is it folks. The effectiveness of our actions now will > determine our energy--and quite possibly our economic--future. > There is just no reason for inaction; let's all do everything we can. > > Pass the word; send an e-mail to your friends, forward this Alert > everywhere. Put in on Facebook and MySpace. Twitter it. Blog it. > Print this and take it to meetings. Do whatever you can. We can't > let this stand. > > And please send a few dollars our way. Every tax-deductible > contribution you make enables us to reach more people, to expand > our efforts, to build on what you already are doing. We simply > can't do this without your support, so please contribute here. > > We need thousands and thousands of people responding to this Alert; > please act, please do everything you can to expand our reach. > > Thanks for all you do, > > Michael Mariotte > > Executive Director > > Nuclear Information and Resource Service > > nirsnet(a)nirs.org > > www.nirs.org > > > > You have received this email through your subscription to this > campaign's email list. If you did not subscribe, or would no longer > like to receive email updates unsubscribe here. >

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Recurrent Energy contract passed the Board.
by Ann Garrison 13 May '09

13 May '09

The Recurrent Energy contract, for corporate solar on the Sunset Reservoir, just passed at the Board. Mar, Chu, Elsbernd, Dufty, Maxwell, Alioto-Pier in favor. Daly, Mirkarimi, Campos, Avalos, Chiu, against. Ross spoke very well for public power, but Eric's angry defection was really disheartening. I didn't hear David Chiu explain his no vote, though of course, I appreciated it.

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For Newsletter: Joint Meeting: Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups, Mon, May 18, 6:30-9pm, SFGP Office
by Eric Brooks 10 May '09

10 May '09

Joint Meeting: Transportation & Sustainability Working Groups When: Monday, 5/18/09, 6:30PM-9:00PM Where: SFGP Office, 1028A Howard St Proposed Agenda Items - Transit Budget - Elected MTA Board - Closing Last SF Power Plant / New 100% Clean Energy Act - Update On Privatized Sunset Solar Installation - Update On Community Choice Energy project (now Clean Power SF)

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The Gobernator & the Goober, & Electric Cars
by Ann Garrison 07 May '09

07 May '09

Schwarzenegger, Newsom, & Electric Cars http://tinyurl.com/cfhxb8 Also, this is hot linked into that piece, but I wanted to call out SoCal Edison and PG&E's strategic partnerships with electric car manufacturers, for obvious reasons: http://www.sce.com/PowerandEnvironment/ElectricTransportation/ Obama visited SoCal Edison's electric car center on April 19th: http://www.sce.com/Feature/Obama-EV-Tech-Center.htm I read Bush's speech at the reopening of Reactor #1 at the Browns Ferry Alabama Nuclear Power Plant in 2007, and, it was all about his vision of a world of nuclear (private utility) powered electric cars. Newsom for a Nuclear California http://www.examiner.com/x-8257-SF-Energy-Policy-Examiner~y2009m5d5- Arnold-Schwarzenegger-Gavin-Newsom-PGE-and-Nuclear-Power

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Re: [Transpo] [marta@transformca.org: Will this help get you and a friend to the Summit?]
by susan vaughan 07 May '09

07 May '09

I may want to. Sue --- On Thu, 5/7/09, John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> wrote: From: John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> Subject: [Transpo] [marta(a)transformca.org: Will this help get you and a friend to the Summit?] To: transpo(a)sfgreens.org Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 2:29 PM Anybody want to go to this transit summit? We have 2 free tickets. JMC ----- Forwarded message from Marta Lindsey <marta(a)transformca.org> ----- From: Marta Lindsey <marta(a)transformca.org> To: jmc(a)sfgreens.org Subject: Will this help get you and a friend to the Summit? Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 08:47:00 -0700 Dear John-Marc, Good news: thanks to a sponsorship we just got for the Summit, we can offer your organization not just one, but two free tickets to the Summit! We really hope you'll come and bring a friend/colleague - and if not, share the free tickets with others. We want San Francisco Green Party at the Summit. I also really hope you can help spread the word on the Summit by forwarding the email below to your contact lists immediately. We ask that you register for your free tickets by May 12 if possible. Thank you so much for your help in making the Summit a success - hope to see you there! PS You may be getting a phone call from a TransForm staff in the next couple days urging you to come to the Summit - the best Summits are the ones where tons of our regional coalition organizations come! FORWARD TEXT BELOW TO YOUR CONTACT LISTS ASAP PLEASE! <http://transformca.org/events/transforms-12th-annual-summit> TransForm's 12th Annual Summit Saturday, May 16, 2009 - Laney College, Oakland Registration is just $20 through May 1! annual-summit-2009-flyer-email.jpg Top 5 Reasons You Should Attend: 1. Learn tons: sessions cover topics ranging from smart growth and social justice to health and housing 2. Make friends and connections (300+ attendees!) 3. Get inspired: our keynote's message will make you think and act 4. Get outside: take one of the walking, bicycling or transit tours offered 5. Eat delicious organic food (we know food is key at conferences) Theme of the Summit: This year's Summit will focus on the critical role of transportation and land use in the health of our economy, pocketbooks, and planet. Featured Topics: * The Combined Cost Burden of Housing and Transportation in the Bay Area * Transforming the Next Federal Transportation Bill * Planning Tools for Healthier Communities * Implementing California's New Smart Growth Law in the Bay Area * New Models for Increasing Walking, Bicycling, and Transit Usage * Making Walkable Communities the Norm with Form-Based Codes * Case Studies in Building Equity Through Community Engagement * Case Studies of Carsharing and Parking Innovations Featured Speakers: * Scott Bernstein, Center for Neighborhood Technology * Bob Allen, Urban Habitat * Louise Auerhahn, Working Partnerships USA * Zabe Bent, San Francisco County Transportation Authority * Anita Daley, City CarShare * Michael Hursh, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority * Ian Kim, Ella Baker Center * Valerie Knepper, Metropolitan Transportation Commission * Dwayne Marsh, PolicyLink * Robert Ogilvie, Public Health Law & Policy * Dan and Karen Parolek, Opticos Design, Inc. * Stephanie Reyes and Elizabeth Stampe, Greenbelt Alliance * Jessica ter Schure, Nelson Nygaard * From Urban Ecology: Katherine Melcher, Andrew Hyder, and Kali Futnani <http://transformca.org/events/transforms-12th-annual-summit> Register today and pay just $20! Spread <http://act.transformca.org/t/4619/tellafriend.jsp?tell_a_friend_KEY=579> the word about the Summit now! Marta Lindsey, Communications and Development Director TransForm (Formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition) 405 14th Street, Suite 605 Oakland, CA 94612 510.740.3150x321 www.TransFormCA.org <http://www.transformca.org/> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Transpo mailing list Transpo(a)sfgreens.org https://list.sfgreens.org/mailman/listinfo/transpo

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