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Delivering 378 medical students' signatures to Sacramento to save public transit in California

Submitted by Steven on 10 January, 2009 - 10:09pm

I collected 378 letters from my fellow classmates (63 letters for 6 legislators) concerned about the severe cuts to California's public transit systems, the odd routing of OCTA's rapid bus system, and the disproportionate amount of funding OCTA's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan is dedicating to freeways over transit. I'll be hand-delivering them to Sacramento on Monday while I'm there lobbying for universal healthcare with about 500 other medical students. read more→

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Vote "no" on B: the slow death of Caltrain and VTA

Submitted by Steven on 1 November, 2008 - 10:48pm

Why would I ever say "no" to BART? Simple: because it'll cannibalize existing transit services. My friends, if you live in Silicon Valley, please vote NO on measure B (additional tax for BART to San Jose). read more→

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