Train ridership is surging on BART's rail extension to the San Francisco International Airport, nearly five years after the tracks to five new stations opened with far fewer passengers than expected. Average weekday passenger totals on the airport extension increased 16.4 percent, to 35,107 riders a day, from Jan. 1 through March 1, compared with the same months in 2007. SJ Mercury 4/24/08
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top air pollution regulator Wednesday denounced the federal government's proposal to demand higher fuel efficiency in new cars because a 24-word passage written into the Bush administration's 417-page plan would block California's aggressive efforts to enact its own emissions standards. SJ Mercury 4/24/08
With the price of regular gasoline creeping toward $4 a gallon, commuters in Davis, North Natomas and Placer County are reporting a shocking sight when the bus pulls up. All the seats are taken. Suddenly, it's standing room only on commuter buses around the region. "I think we're heading for big demand that the region's (bus services are) frankly not ready for," said Sacramento Regional Transit official Mark Lonergan. Sacramento Bee 4/24/08
Bay Area commuters are slowly undertaking a revolution in the way they travel, an analysis of data shows. More and more, regional commuters are being turned off by record gas prices and turned on to public transit, ditching cars at home at a higher rate than last year. BART and Caltrain are both operating with record ridership; other public transit agencies — including VTA, the Golden Gate bus and ferry. and ACE train service — experienced a climb in ridership in March as compared with the same time frame last year. Examiner 4/24/08
Governors of California, Oregon and Washington Request Congressional Support for Maritime Pollution Prevention Act: “We write to request your support of H.R. 802, the Maritime Pollution Prevention Act of 2007. The legislation would authorize the Environmental Protection Agency and the Coast Guard to issue enforcement regulations for the MARPOL Annex VI, which was approved by the Senate in 2006. Implementing the international treaty amendment is an important first step in protecting the health of our citizens in coastal regions and in expanding international global trade by vessels to and from the United States.” All American Patriots 4/23/08
A federal court has denied an appeal by California air quality regulators who sought to force strict environmental fuel regulations on thousands of ships visiting the state's seaports. The fuel regulation request, which the city of Long Beach supported in court, would have required ocean carriers to use low-sulfur fuels in their auxiliary engines within 24 miles of the state's coastline. Press Telegram 4/24/08
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