Remembering Fire Chief Doug Williams
Today the fire service has lost a legend… It is with extreme sadness that we inform you that retired Fire Chief Doug Williams answered...
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Friends of Smart
Oct 301 min read
SMART awarded $81M by State of California to extend passenger rail service to northern Sonoma County
From SMART October 25, 2024 Petaluma, CA — The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) District is pleased to announce an $81 million...
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Friends of Smart
Sep 121 min read
Sonoma Co. Transportation & Land-Use Coalition: In support of Extending SMART to Healdsburg
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Attn: Plan Bay Area 2050 Comments 375 Beale Street, Suite 800San Francisco, CA 94105 Re: Plan Bay...
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Friends of Smart
Sep 101 min read
The Case for Extending SMART to Healdsburg
Letter to Metropolitan Transport Commission From Jack Swearengen, PhD Chair, Friends of SMART Dear Colleagues at MTC: The local cities of...
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Friends of Smart
Aug 123 min read
Protect Mendocino County's Rail Future
Protect Mendocino County’s rail future By Robert Jason Pinoli President, Mendocino Railway The future of Mendocino County’s...
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Friends of Smart
Aug 121 min read
Letter to Pete Buttegieg in support of Sonoma Co. Multijurisdinctional Safe & Resilent Routes Planning Project
Read our letter to Hon. Pete Buttigieg in support of the Sonoma County Multi Jurisdictional Safe and Resilient Routes for Schools, Parks,...
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Friends of Smart
Jun 241 min read
Larkspur Shuttle: Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit
The SMART Connect Larkspur shuttle serves the SMART Larkspur station, the Golden Gate Ferry Larkspur Terminal, and the surrounding...
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Friends of Smart
May 221 min read
Letter to Surface Transport Board re. Mendocino Railway
May 19, 2024 Cynthia T. Brown Chief of the Section of Administration Office of Proceedings Surface Transport Board Re. Great Redwood...
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Friends of Smart
Apr 271 min read
Letter in Support of Highway 101 Pedestrian and Bicycle Overcrossing Federal Funding
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...
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Friends of Smart
Apr 102 min read
Mendocino Railway: Letter to Mendocino County Board of Supervisors
From: Robert Jason Pinoli President MENDOCINO RAILWAY April 6, 2024 Members of the Board: I wanted to call your attention to two very...
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Friends of Smart
Mar 201 min read
Impacts On The Future Of The Skunk Train And Our Community
The Challenge. From 2002 through 2015, Fort Bragg and the Mendocino Railroad (MR aka the Skunk Train) were hit by a series of economic...
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Friends of Smart
Jan 101 min read
Citizen Presentation to SMART Board of Directors Meeting
September 13, 2023 By Carolyn Jorgensen, MBA READ/DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION
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Friends of Smart
Jul 9, 20231 min read
2023 California State Rail Plan
California’s economic, environmental, and equity goals demand a fully integrated, zero-emission, modern passenger and freight rail...
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Friends of Smart
May 5, 20231 min read
Smart Train – Golden Gate Bridge: History Does Repeat Itself
Tom Engdahl - May 2020 I've been thinking about our community over the past few weeks. This morning I came across an article regarding...
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Friends of Smart
May 5, 20231 min read
Friends of SMART Donation Request
March, 2023 Jack Swearengen, Chair * Dani Sheehan-Meyer, Treasurer Friends of SMART Dear Friends, As our favorite train moves onward into...
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Friends of Smart
May 5, 20232 min read
Citizen Presentation to SMART Board of Directors Meeting
Citizen Presentation to SMART Board of Directors Meeting By Carolyn Jorgensen, MBA April 18, 2023 With an opinion Public Comment to SMART...
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Friends of Smart
Dec 28, 20221 min read
Lucy Kortum
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,...
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Friends of Smart
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Best Things to Eat, Drink and Do Close to SMART Stations (Sonoma Magazine)
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...
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Friends of Smart
Aug 9, 20221 min read
Friends of Smart letter to Press Democrat re. proposal to remove tracks/build trail on them
08.03.22 - To: The Press Democrat Editor: Your Editorial of June 6 rightly celebrated the apparent demise of the proposed coal train to...
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Friends of Smart
Jun 23, 20221 min read
Sonoma County Civil Grand Jury - 2021-2022 Final Report
SMART Decision Making Citizen Feedback is Critical for Success SUMMARY The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) District (District) was...
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