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Samuel Okonkwo
Transit & Infrastructure reporter · SMART, highways, ferries, regional transit funding
Transit and infrastructure reporter covering SMART, highways, ferries and regional transit funding.
Stories by Samuel
Clear security in Santa Rosa, ride straight to the gate: Sonoma County Airport adds a coach link to SFO
Landline's Straight to Gate service starts Nov. 17. Travelers on five airlines will check bags and pass TSA screening at Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport, then ride a secure coach directly into the terminal at San Francisco International Airport.
Oct. 13
SMART's Measure B win locks in $51 million a year through 2059
Voters extended the quarter-cent sales tax with more than 70 percent in June. The train now has a 30-year funding runway, and a 30-year argument about what to do with it.
Sept. 24
The Bay Area's big transit tax is on the November ballot. The North Bay is not in it
Senate Bill 63 authorizes a five-county Connect Bay Area measure for November 3. Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano are outside the district, riders of the regional system anyway.
Sept. 20