Jan. 7, 2025 Dear Congressman Huffman, I am most pleased to see your stated belief that “the redwood trail and restored rail line could...

Today the fire service has lost a legend… It is with extreme sadness that we inform you that retired Fire Chief Doug Williams answered...

From SMART October 25, 2024 Petaluma, CA — The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) District is pleased to announce an  $81 million...

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Attn: Plan Bay Area 2050 Comments 375 Beale Street, Suite 800San Francisco, CA 94105 Re: Plan Bay...

Letter to Metropolitan Transport Commission From Jack Swearengen, PhD Chair, Friends of SMART Dear Colleagues at MTC: The local cities of...

Protect Mendocino County’s rail future By Robert Jason Pinoli President, Mendocino Railway   The future of Mendocino County’s...

Read our letter to Hon. Pete Buttigieg in support of the Sonoma County Multi Jurisdictional Safe and Resilient Routes for Schools, Parks,...

The SMART Connect Larkspur shuttle serves the SMART Larkspur station, the Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur Terminal, and the surrounding...

May 19, 2024 Cynthia T. Brown Chief of the Section of Administration Office of Proceedings Surface Transport Board Re. Great Redwood...

Read Jack Swearengen's letter from Friends of Smart to the U.S. Department of Transportation re. Support for the City of Santa Rosa's...

From: Robert Jason Pinoli President MENDOCINO RAILWAY April 6, 2024 Members of the Board: I wanted to call your attention to two very...

The Challenge. From 2002 through 2015, Fort Bragg and the Mendocino Railroad (MR aka the Skunk Train) were hit by a series of economic...

September 13, 2023 By Carolyn Jorgensen, MBA READ/DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION

California’s economic, environmental, and equity goals demand a fully integrated, zero-emission, modern passenger and freight rail...

Tom Engdahl - May 2020 I've been thinking about our community over the past few weeks. This morning I came across an article regarding...

March, 2023 Jack Swearengen, Chair * Dani Sheehan-Meyer, Treasurer Friends of SMART Dear Friends, As our favorite train moves onward into...

Citizen Presentation to SMART Board of Directors Meeting By Carolyn Jorgensen, MBA April 18, 2023 With an opinion Public Comment to SMART...

All of us at Friends of SMART were very sad to hear of the recent passing of fervent Sonoma County environmentalist and our good friend,...

Published by: Sonoma Magazine By Sofia Englund August, 2022 If you’re not a commuter to Santa Rosa, Petaluma or one of the other towns...

08.03.22 - To: The Press Democrat Editor: Your Editorial of June 6 rightly celebrated the apparent demise of the proposed coal train to...