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  • Airport traffic up nearly 3 percent in April

    May 14th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Airline passenger volume at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in April increased nearly 3 percent from a year before and slightly from the previous month, according to figures released this morning.

  • SMART completes $199 million bond sale

    May 2nd, 2012

    NORTH BAY – The Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District announced that it has successfully sold more than $199 million in bonds, securing an overall 3.3 percent interest rate that the agency said will net $171 million to fund construction.

  • Airport Express to offer new Santa Rosa stop in May

    April 23rd, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Sonoma County Airport Express will begin operation of a new Santa Rosa stop on May 1, five months after discontinuing service in the city.

  • SMART chooses airport site for maintenance facility

    April 19th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — updated 1:54 p.m. — The operations and maintenance facility for Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit will be located at a site near the Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport, the transit authority announced today.

  • SMART moves toward creation of new pension plan

    April 18th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL – Future staff hired to work for the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District are likely to receive a pension plan that agency staff said will be insulated from the pressures leading to unfunded liabilities in other public agencies.

  • Two-tier retirement plan proposed for SMART

    April 13th, 2012

    The board of directors of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District will receive a proposal next week to create a two-tiered retirement system it expects will accrue savings to the organization as it ramps up hiring.

  • Sonoma County airline passenger traffic up 7 percent in March

    April 4th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The number of passengers flying in and out of Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport climbed 7.7 percent in March this year from February but dropped slightly compared with a year before, according airport figures released today.

  • Sonoma Jet Center among first to offer unleaded aviation fuel

    March 26th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA – Sonoma Jet Center, a private aviation company based in Santa Rosa, has become an early adopter of lead-free fuel for general aviation use, according to the company.

  • Horizon tops regional airlines in profit margin

    March 13th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Horizon Air, the Alaska Airlines subsidiary operating all commercial flights in Santa Rosa, had the highest operating profit margin among all regional airlines, according to new federal data. Average fares from the airport increased 7.2 percent.

  • Rohnert Park officials hope SMART will spur development

    March 12th, 2012

    ROHNERT PARK — North Bay officials said they were optimistic that the relocation of a proposed commuter rail stop in Rohnert Park will help spur transit-oriented development in a central district that includes the office complex State Farm Insurance vacated in 2010.

  • Airline traffic increases 5.4 percent in February to new record

    March 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Airline travel in and out of Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport continued to climb upward in February, reaching an all-time high of 14,996 passengers, an increase of 5.4 percent from a year before, according to figures released this morning.

  • Freight trains to roll during passenger rail construction

    March 2nd, 2012

    UKIAH — Existing freight service will continue between Napa and Sonoma counties while construction on the first phase of the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit line is underway over the next two to three years, according to the North Coast Railroad Authority.

  • SMART groundbreaking draws hundreds

    February 24th, 2012

    PETALUMA — Officials from the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit District took part in a ceremonial groundbreaking in Petaluma today to celebrate the start of construction for a commuter rail system that is planned to span the entire length of Sonoma and Marin counties.

  • The phenomenal success of Measure M and Highway 101

    February 16th, 2012

    It’s important not to forget how critical the passage of Measure M in 2004 was to Sonoma County transportation — and just how bad traffic on Highway 101 would be today without it.

  • SMART OKs moving Rohnert Park station near State Farm site

    February 15th, 2012

    SAN RAFAEL — Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit officials today gave final approval for the relocation of a proposed commuter rail station in Rohnert Park, embracing a more central site that proponents said could help spur future transit-oriented development in an area that includes the office complex State Farm Insurance vacated in 2010.

  • Area subs selected for SMART contract

    February 8th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — A number of local companies have been selected for first part of the recently awarded $103 million design-build contract for underlying construction in the Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit commuter rail system.

  • SMART expects ‘at least’ two more contracts by summer

    February 6th, 2012

    Planners expect to award at least two more contracts for the construction of a commuter rail line between Sonoma and Marin counties by this summer, following the failure of an effort that could have repealed the 2008 sales tax measure that supports the project.

  • Airport passenger traffic rises 2.3 percent in January

    February 3rd, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Passenger volume at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in January was up 2.3 percent from a year before, according to figures released this afternoon.

  • SMART tax repeal effort fails

    January 30th, 2012

    NORTH BAY — An effort to allow voters to repeal the 2008 sales tax measure that funds a proposed commuter rail system in the North Bay has failed after election officials in Sonoma and Marin counties collected fewer than the minimum signatures required to advance the matter to the ballot.

  • Repealing SMART will have expensive consequences

    January 30th, 2012

    Four years into the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression, everyone’s looking to boost the economy and invest wisely. In the North Bay, voters have provided the opportunity to do both: the SMART Train & Pathway.

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