Oakland Streetcar Proposal
If any city could use a streetcar, it's Oakland. Oakland could use a lot of things, sure. But streetcars aren't a tool for mobility so much as economic development. And for that reason, they can be funded creatively — say, by employing a value-capture strategy. But that's not our job. We make maps. And in this case, OK — we are trying to get folks thinking at least a little bit about the potential of a streetcar to help revitalize Oakland streets. Oakland's been down this road before, with a modest proposal (scroll down to "Jack London Feasibility Study") that was still too much for certain Oakland politicians. But as another politician said: Hope is not sitting on the sidelines.
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They finally did it. On November 4, Marin and Sonoma voters at long last brought rail transit back to the North Bay. Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit won't start running for at least five years — by which time gas will probably cost $5 or $6 a gallon, the 101 bottleneck north of Novato still won't have been widened, and hundreds of new condos already will have been built around stations in Sonoma. But finally, there is light at the end of this tunnel.
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