10.19.21 Farhad Mansourian, General Manger Board of Directors, SMART Staff SMAR For the public record the Friends of SMART would like to...

July 28, 2021 Friends of SMART is disappointed that MTC places so little emphasis on developing rail transportation in our region. Rail...

Seamless Bay Area Public transportation in the Bay Area does not work for people. Unreliable service, slow speeds, lack of connections,...

FROM: Liz Nagle Associate Environmental Planner Caltrans|District 4|Office of Environmental Analysis As the lead agency under the...

EXCERPT FROM LETTER #1: President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McCarthy and Leader McConnell: Our coalition of...

Posted on 28 December 2020 By Geoffrey D Smith BikePartners.net A vision for the SMART train is being realized now. Imagine a day in the...

TO: President-Elect Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader McCarthy, and Leader Schumer: Our coalition of transit, labor,...

by Willard Richards and Michael Allen | October 1, 2020 Measure DD will maintain Sonoma County’s ability to compete for State funding of...

Ph.D. Jack C. Swearengen, Ph.D. First published in 2008 At yesterday’s Friends of SMART meeting I mentioned the White Paper that I wrote...

Patricia Tuttle Brown, Founding member of the Petaluma Bike/Pedestrian Committee (PBAC), business owner, wife, parent. I am a long-term...

Santa Rosa Press Democrat Sunday, February 2, 2020 Imagine this: An unconventional mass transit system, up and running for just a short...

Jason Walsh, Editor & Associate Publisher Sonoma Index Tribune January 29, 2020 Sonoma Valley voters are being asked on the March 3...

Willard Richards Friends of SMART January 27, 2020 I just finished reading Rich Harkness’ 36-page document reporting his analyses of the...

Jeffrey D Rhoads RA LEED AP January 27, 2020 In retrospect, promises made by Measure Q proponents proved difficult to deliver. In the...

Steve Birdlebough Sonoma County Land Use Coalition Posted January 27, 2020 In 2008, voters decided to fund the SMART project, but it has...

By Jack Swearengen Imagine for a moment that you are gazing with me at two documents. The first is a photograph entitled “End of Rail...

By Dani Sheehan-Meyer Friends of SMART January 13, 2020 I have been attending the SMART board meetings since October 2018. I have learned...

by Walt Strakosch, Friends of SMART For some time it has been clear that we cannot get around traffic problems simply by adding lanes to...

The Sonoma Marin Area Regional Transit (SMART) District is placing a measure on the March 2020 Ballot to extend its existing 1/4% sales...

The remarkable work of Sonoma Marin Area Regional Transit (SMART) to re-establish passenger rail service after the Great Recession of...