By Richard Davis, AICP, July 6, 2026
This week’s roundup highlights major developments shaping transportation, housing, infrastructure, and economic growth across the region. In East Oakland, a new stretch of the East Bay Greenway is complete, expanding safer walking and biking connections while underscoring the need for continued investment and maintenance. BART earned national recognition for fiscal responsibility amid ongoing transit funding challenges, while Brisbane faces state intervention over delayed housing plans at the Baylands. Meanwhile, California Forever is renewing its push for a new Solano County city and shipyard, drawing both support for potential jobs and scrutiny over environmental review, local control, and transparency. Together, these stories show how decisions about land use, mobility, public finance, and regional planning continue to shape the Bay Area’s future.
Over the next few years, more sections will be added to the planned 16-mile project.
Railroad industry news about: BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Clipper BayPass, passenger rail, transit budgets. From the editors of Progressive Railroading Magazine
California strips Bay Area city of local housing control over delays with massive development (paywall)
The ruling comes from the city’s delays over the development of its massive Baylands project.
CALIFORNIA FOREVER, the tech billionaire-backed group that hopes to build a city from scratch on farmland in the outer San Francisco Bay Area, is lobbying state leaders to fast-track a massive shipbuilding deal that would kick-start its development after years of local opposition.