Burlingame, at present, has no voice on the county's transit district board (SamTrans), which will influence issues related to Caltrain. As Caltrain is now contemplating a redesign of the Burlingame train station, it looks like a seat on the SamTrans board will again be claimed by Daly City, which is guaranteed at least three seats, possibly four if newly elected Supervisor Adrienne Tissier takes the seat being vacated by Supervsior Mike Nevin.
Nevin will keep a seat on the baord by replacing retiring board member and former Daly City councilmember Al Teglia as the new "public member" as he must surrender his seat as a county supervisor as he is being termed out of office this January.
- Written by politicalblunder
Sadly cronyism is not dead.
What is the latest on the Catrains remodel of the station. Is Harvey-the-car man still holding up proceedings and have the small businesses been helped with their parking places?
Supposedly Caltrains was coming back in December but they have 4+ hours left and counting!
Posted by: Jim | January 01, 2005 at 03:43 AM
Jim,
Currently, Caltrain is scheduled to make a presentation at the next City Council meeting on Tuesday, January 18th. Hope to see all interested parties in attendance! If anyone would like to e-mail me their comments they can be addressed to [email protected] Happy New Year, Burlingame!
Posted by: Cathy Baylock | January 05, 2005 at 06:41 PM
This story just keeps getting better. Tuesday, the newly seated Board of Supervisors awarded the SamTrans board seat vacated by Mike Nevin to newly elected Daly City Supervisor Adrienne Tissier. That now means with Nevin sliding into the "public seat" that Daly City will retain four out of the nine seats on this board.There are articles in today's Daily Journal, Examiner, and SMC Times covering this event. Also, Steve Schmidt, the former Mayor of Menlo Park had a great editorial from Tuesday, Jan. 4 regarding the loss of the "public seat". Schmidt does a nice job of explaining why this is more important than just simply buses. The article can be viewed at: http://www.almanacnews.com/morgue/2005/2005_01_05.oped05.shtml
Posted by: politicalblunder | January 05, 2005 at 10:05 PM