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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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Friday, December 11th, 2009 · 2 comments
Yesterday, December 10, the BART Board voted seven to one to award the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) to winning bidder Flatiron/Parsons to build the...
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
A Richmond-bound BART train derailed yesterday at about 10:30 AM just before entering the Oakland 12th Street Station, which is in an underground...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 · 3 comments
At the Special BART Board meeting scheduled for December 10, they will consider to proceed with the not-completely funded Oakland Airport Connector...
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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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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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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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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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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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