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Although developers are fuming about the approval of the Transbay Terminal Environmental Impact Report, construction goes full-bore near BART.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch: the Governator seeks to "borrow" from transit funds to feed the state's sapped resources:

His budget proposal would transfer nearly another $2 billion in transportation funds to the state's general fund by suspending Prop. 42, which voters approved in 2002 and devotes sales taxes paid on gasoline to highway and transit improvements.
... In addition, the budget proposal also would end the Transportation Congestion Relief Program, the 181 projects that were guaranteed funding by Proposition 42 from the gas tax until 2008.
"It would be like a highway pileup,'' said Randy Rentschler, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area's transportation planning agency. "Some projects could be salvaged; a lot couldn't.''

In doing so, he borrows from the Gray Davis playbook: Davis took about $2 billion from the state's transportation funds as well.

Why is BART under-used?

Will the Transbay rejuvenate public transit throughout the Bay Area? In California?