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 b...

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

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

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 fac...

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 Thr...

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 t...

The remarkable work of Sonoma Marin Area Regional Transit (SMART) to re-establish passenger rail service after the Great Recession of 200...

CONTINUING FAST, LOCAL TRAIN SERVICE Over the past two years, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) trains have carried 1.5 million pass...

POLL: 69% OF SONOMA AND MARIN COUNTY VOTERS SUPPORT A 30-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE SONOMA-MARIN AREA RAIL TRANSIT DISTRICT (SMART) ¼ CENT, V...

By Owain James - April 17, 2019 The United States is well into a building boom of modern streetcars. The American Public Transportation A...

The Dali Lama expressed a great wisdom when he said that hope is the base of human existence. And in the past, when one died after a long...

To: Senator Ben Allen May 17, 2019 Re: Intercity Passenger Rail Services: Motor Coach Transportation of Passengers – Letter of Support fo...

RESHAPING CITIES FOR THE LONG-TERM HEALTH OF HUMAN AND NATURAL SYSTEMS Simply put, an ecocity is an ecologically healthy city. And becaus...

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