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Guy Span
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Guy has worked for a number of Fortune 500 rail transportation companies, serving in such varied capacities as track maintenance, locomotive repair, brakeman, conductor, engineer, yardmaster, trainmaster, superintendent, assistant vice-president and senior vice-president. He has served on the Board of Directors of both passenger and freight railways. He has been a commuter in the Bay Area since 1990 serving on the Board of Directors of a ferry support group and instrumental in filing a number of California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) motions aimed at preserving ferry service at lower rates. As a consultant he has studied and sometimes worked for railways and transit operations all over the world, including North America, Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He has a degree in Journalism from Boston University and has served as a writer, editorialist and Editor of San Francisco Bay Crossings.


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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 · 6 comments
Out of the 27 Bay Area transit agencies, there have to be a few turkeys. However, the candidates are legion. Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) receives...
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
The Union Pacific Railroad (UP) announced Monday that effective November 19th, a new high-clearance route through the Sierra was open and in service....
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
At BART’s November 19 Board Meeting, the first quarter’s dismal operating report was presented. A combination of less riders, lower sales...
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 · 3 comments
Setting the Way-back machine to 1995, we find the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury’s analysis describing BART to the airport. They concluded...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009 · 9 comments
It turns out that BART service via the strange elevated quadruple track line from the terminal (dead end) station at the airport (SFO) to the terminal...
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009 · 5 comments
The original BART to the San Francisco Airport (SFO) concocted in 1991 planned to have a joint BART/CalTrain station at San Bruno. At this...
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Thanks to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s intervention in 2007, SamTrans was extricated from its marriage to BART, but at a huge...
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In the 2007 Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)-orchestrated divorce agreement between feuding BART and its jilting partner San Mateo County...
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There really are three types of Bay Bridge carpools from the East Bay to the City. One is where neighbors get together and share a vehicle into and...
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Today, November 4th, the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) held a lightly-attended public meeting to present the options for a toll increase. There was...
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