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Transit Terminator 2
All this comes as the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) enacted further service reductions January 11. You are strongly encouraged to contact your State Assemblymembers and State Senators, and let them know how important state public transit funding is for your mobility. Not sure who represents you specifically? Contact the Santa Clara County Registrar's office at (408)299-8683 from 9am-5pm Monday-Friday or go here and click "Look Up Your Districts" to find out who represents you. In Other News... Mid-February CompromiseIn an 11-5 vote on January 27, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) gave BART until February 16 to comply with Title VI Civil Rights requirements for federal stimulus money for its proposed Oakland Airport Connector project. All three Santa Clara County members of the MTC voted to reaffirm the project with this deadline. SVTRU joined other groups throughout the Bay Area to try to get MTC to use the $70 million in federal stimulus money for transit operations. More information on this effort can be found here. Related: Milpitas Post Op-Ed: Government + Labor Unions = No Good | VTA Watch: Don't Mess With (the) FTA February 4 VTA Board Meeting AudioAudio from the February 4 VTA Board meeting in San Jose is now available. Highlights from the nearly two-hour long Board meeting include the VTA Board approving its short-range transit plan and applying for up to $120 million in "Jobs for Main Street Act 2010" funding. Listen up here as our group urges VTA to focus its spending on preserving existing transit service throughout the meeting. Related: Who Represents YOU On the VTA's Board of Directors (updated for 2010) Gotta Keep Fighting... We strongly urge you to contact your representatives in the U.S. Congress and urge them to co-sponsor HR 2746. The bill would allow transit agencies like VTA to use at least 30% of what they receive in federal transit construction (capital) funding for bus and rail operations. U. S. House of Representatives members Zoe Lofgren of San Jose and Jerry McNerney of Morgan Hill are two of the co-sponsors of the bill. Others Who Are Suffering: AC Transit | San Francisco MUNI | SamTrans | BART | Caltrain | Sacramento | Statewide | Nationwide Transition Period As you can see, we are in the process of changing our name. We are now officially known as the Silicon Valley Transit Users (SVTRU). For now, our web site is still the same. However that will soon change given our new name. Please watch this web site for more details as we roll out our new, more dynamic name. Other Ways To Follow Us...
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