Marin County
Transportation and Land Use Planning
TRANSDEF's home base is Marin County,
just north of San Francisco. We have offered our
suggestions on planning and operating the county’s
transportation network to the Transportation Authority of
Marin (TAM), yet have been ignored:
A 2003 analysis of Marin’s transportation
challenges and a set of strategies to address
them, as valid
now as it was back then.
TRANSDEF testimony for the
2011 discussion and the 2015 discussion of TAM’s submission for the Regional
Transportation Plan. TAM continues to ignore
crisis-level congestion, and continue with the status
quo. This 2011 TRANSDEF letter, for example, made no difference.
A 2006 letter identifying how to optimize the
benefits of the HOV Gap Closure project in San
Rafael. Caltrans and TAM have done little to
take advantage of this $150+ million investment.
Completing the North-South Bikeway cost-effectively using
the railroad trestle south of Sir Francis Drake
Blvd. TAM insisted
on selecting an inferior route along the freeway shoulder.
2013 Proposal to test the temporary closure of
Hwy. 101 on-ramps to study the effect on Greenbrae
Corridor traffic conditions. (TRANSDEF’s proposal is in
red, superimposed on TAM’s base map)
A 2013 proposal re: Transportation Demand
Management in
the Greenbrae Corridor: study where traffic is coming
from, where it goes, and whether it is possible to
encourage other modes of travel: walk, bike, carpool and
transit.
A 2013 proposal to improve traffic flow to
the Richmond Bridge. TAM and Caltrans were very slow in
responding to the backup leading to the Richmond Bridge,
which led to TRANSDEF proposing in 2015 an
Interim Opening of the Third Lane
on the Bridge. TAM
responded with a non-responsive dismissive
letter, and
then supplemented it with more detailed
non-responsive dismissive
letter.
TRANSDEF included the Bridge issue in its
Marin Voice opinion
piece on the
failure of government.
Here is Marin’s official 2003 Transportation Vision and TRANSDEF’s comments on the Draft Vision. TRANSDEF proposed
a new set of Goals for the Transportation Authority of
Marin in 2014.
Marin County is suffering from a virulent backlash against
state-mandated planning for affordable housing. TRANSDEF
offered another viewpoint in the Marin Independent Journal: