Tuesday, September 11, 2007

UC Berkeley Supports AC Transit Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project

Emily Marthinsen, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Physical and Environmental Planning at the University of California at Berkeley and Noel Pinto, Director of UC's Office of Parking and Transportation express UC support for AC Transit's East Bay BRT Project in a public comment letter to AC Transit.

"In sum, UC Berkeley continues to support AC Transit's dedicated lane Bus Rapid Transit."

Links to the University of California public comment letter to AC Transit and an Overview of the AC Transit BRT EIR prepared by the UC Physical and Environmental Planning Department, as well as a brief description of the BRT proposal, can be found on the Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley blog published by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability on September 4, 2007 at

http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/blogs/announce/open/2007/09/ac-transit-has-proposed-bus-rapid.html