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Transportation Policy

November 2009
Fri 6: At CNU, Former Rep of Texas Legislature says "No Road Pays for Itself" 1
Fri 6: 'The Concrete is Cracking': Front-Loaded New Transport Bill Gains Steam 0
Thu 5: CNU Transportation Project Raises Bar on Planning for Livable Cities 1
Thu 5: Boxer Okays Senate Climate Bill, Without Amendments or GOP 0
Wed 4: Amtrak, Virginia Railway Express, and the Future of Privately Run Transit 0
Wed 4: Kerry: There’s a Narrow Window For GOP Cooperation on Pricing Pollution 0
Tue 3: Streetfilms: Congressman Earl Blumenauer Bikes NYC 3
October 2009
Thu 29: A Republican Returns to Congress With A Map to Transportation Reform 1
Wed 28: Senior Dems Release New Distracted Driving Bill as LaHood Testifies 1
Wed 28: Transportation Policy Becomes the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest 0
Tue 27: Advice for Policymakers: Time to Check Your Blind Spots 0
Mon 26: How Bus Transit Can Help the Auto Industry 0
Mon 26: GOP Senators Protest Evaluating the Climate Impacts of Transport Projects 1
Fri 23: Senate Signals 6-Month Delay for Transport Bill -- But Will the House Agree? 0
Thu 22: Seeking Stimulus Money For Bike Sharing, D.C. Looks Beyond Cutting CO2 2
Wed 21: The Top 10 States for Energy Efficiency -- And Some Surprising Achievers 0
Tue 20: The Political Climate That Makes Transportation Reform Run 0
Fri 16: Transport Debate Still Stalled As Oberstar Decries 'Lack of Political Will' 0
Wed 14: What Washington Can Do For -- And Alongside -- Metro Area Planners 0
Tue 13: Obama Ally Breaks With White House on Timing of New Transport Bill 0
Fri 9: Bridging the Local-National Message Divide: The Climate Bill is the Answer 0
Fri 9: Bush DOT Chief Urges More Transport Tech Funding 2
Wed 7: Team Obama Adviser: Here's How to Make Sustainability Mainstream 0
Tue 6: Is a Bigger Transportation Bill -- This Year -- Back on the Table? 0
September 2009
Wed 30: Senate Climate Bill Released With Much Fanfare, Little Focus on Transport 0
Tue 29: Senate Climate Bill Leaks: The Good News and Bad News for Transport 0
Tue 29: Report: Feds Subsidize Parking Six Times as Much as Transit 6
Tue 22: New Report: 10% Transit Growth Would Help Meet House Climate Target 0
Fri 18: High-Speed Rail Routes and the Looming Choice Among 'Megaregions' 2
Thu 17: Warner Scores a (Small) Win for White House's Transportation Agenda 0
Wed 16: Klobuchar & Webb: Dems' Unlikely Opponents of Bike-Ped Investment 4
Tue 15: The New White House Fuel Efficiency Rule: Count the Loopholes 0
Mon 14: McCain's Transit Hit List: Get the Details 0
Fri 11: White House Tells Senate: Grants No Substitute For Infrastructure Bank 0
Thu 10: The 'Movie Ticket' Theory of Transportation Pricing 0
Thu 10: Consensus on National Transport Goals Still Eludes Industry Pros 0
Wed 9: What Should We Learn From Moses and Jacobs? 2
Wed 9: How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute? 4
Fri 4: Civil Rights Complaint Filed Against BART Over Oak Airport Connector 3
Thu 3: Feds Still Forcing Transit Agencies to Bow to Private Charter Buses 0
Tue 1: New Poll: Public Supports Congestion Tolling Over Gas Tax Hike by 2 to 1 5
August 2009
Mon 31: Cable Cars a Popular Tourist Draw But How Should We Pay for Them? 25
Mon 31: Senator Dukakis? What the Loss of Kennedy Could Mean for Transport Policy 0
Thu 27: High Speed Rail Authority Says Ruling Won't Affect Timeline or Funding 9
Tue 18: Transit Cuts Report Underscores Cities' Congressional Influence Gap 1
Thu 13: Obama Administration Touts Nation's First All-Electronic Toll Road in N.C. 0
Tue 11: Violations in SF's Transit-Only Lanes Rampant and Rarely Enforced 18
Tue 11: Senate's New DOT Spending Bill Eases One Transit Funding Barrier 3
Mon 10: SF's Transit-Only Lane Network is An Incomplete Vision 9
Wed 5: Portland's Transport Research Guru Headed to Obama Administration 0
July 2009
Wed 29: Senate Panel Backs $1.2B for High-Speed Rail, $1.2B Extra for Highways 0
Tue 28: How Soon Will Cutting Transportation Emissions Save Money? 0
Thu 23: Peak Fuel Report Offers Sober Assessment of San Francisco's Energy Future 30
Tue 14: Voinovich Joins House Dems in Saying No to Transpo Funding Stopgap 0
Tue 14: BART a National Leader in Real-Time Data Transparency and Development 5
Mon 13: SF Approves Trial Closure of Mason Street In North Beach 11
Mon 6: Streetscast: An Interview with MTA Chair Tom Nolan, Part I 10
Mon 6: Livable Streets Expert Enrique Peñalosa Comes to San Francisco 1
Thu 2: Bus Stop Consolidation: The Times Have Changed 52
Thu 2: Obama Administration's Transportation Goals: Read Them Here 0
June 2009
Thu 25: Money or Nothing: Schwarzenegger Joins Call for Infrastructure Investment 1
Wed 17: LaHood Asks for 18-Month Extension of Four-Year-Old Transpo Law 0
Mon 15: Oberstar to Release Transportation Outline Wednesday 0
Thu 11: Call for Regional Coordination of Land Use and Transportation 3
Thu 4: LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It 0
Wed 3: Supervisor Chiu Urges MTC to Invest in Transit Over Freeway Expansion 10
May 2009
Wed 27: Only 17 Percent Drive to Downtown SF to Shop, Study Finds 12
Fri 22: Finding Unused Pavement for Parks and Plazas in Lower Potrero 11
Fri 22: Recovery.org Tracks The Stimulus Faster Than The Guys Spending It 0
Tue 19: The Long, Ugly Road to a Federal Transportation Plan 0
Fri 15: Where's Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV 4
Fri 15: Governor Schwarzenegger Finds Another Way to Rob Transit 0
Fri 15: Does Your Commute Suck? Tell Us About It. 1
Fri 15: Welcome Elana Schor, Streetsblog's New National Reporter 0
Mon 11: Celebrating San Francisco With a Sunday Streets Bicycle Ride 6
Fri 8: Eyes on the Street: It's Beginning to Look Like... a Livable Street! 3
Fri 8: Advocates, Unions Call for BRT Connector Service to Oakland Airport 10
Fri 8: BART Directors Consider Design Concepts for New Rail Cars 2
Wed 6: Fear Growing Senator Boxer Won't Deliver Progressive Transportation Act 5
April 2009
Fri 24: Future of the 26-Valencia Line Uncertain 25
Fri 24: Great Streets Project Hires Director, Hits the Streets Running 3
Fri 24: Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit? 0
Thu 23: Advocates File Appeal in MTC Discrimination Case 0
Thu 23: MTC Approves Sweeping Regional Plan, Debates New Toll Lanes 3
Wed 22: Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials 8
Tue 21: New Video Series Tells the Story of Sprawl 0
Mon 20: MTA To Get Greater Management Role Over SFPD's Traffic Company 9
Wed 15: Petition: Support a Climate Bill That Invests in Green Transportation 0
Mon 13: California Cities Need A Predictable Fund For Transit Operations 7
Fri 10: Streetscast: An Interview with MTA Chief Nat Ford, Part 1 7
Fri 10: Treehugger Names Streetsblog "Best Green Transportation Advocacy" 3
Fri 10: BART Releases 2010 Budget, But Board Doesn't Debate Its Merits 2
Thu 9: Calls For Greater 311, MTA Efficiency 4
Wed 8: What Effect Will World's Smallest Car Have on Global Warming? 0
Wed 8: MTA Board Tweaks Budget Proposal Following First Public Hearing 2
Mon 6: What's in a Neighborhood 10
Thu 2: News From New York: The ABC's of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets 8
March 2009
Tue 31: Streetscast: An Interview with District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier 10
Tue 31: Happy Belated Transportation Freedom Day, San Francisco! 0
Mon 30: California Could Start Requiring Drivers to Report VMT 23
Fri 27: The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate 8
Thu 26: Back to the Grid: John Norquist on How to Fix National Transpo Policy 2
Wed 25: 17th Street Closure Will Be First NYC-style Plaza in San Francisco 54
Mon 23: Streetfilms: L.A.’s Orange Line Bus Rapid Transit (plus bike path!) 18
Mon 23: San Francisco's Unbuilt Freeway Network Revisited 10
Wed 11: Mission Neighbors Upset Over Proposed Pedestrian Fence 31
Tue 10: What Should San Francisco Do to Make the MTA More Accountable? 18
Mon 9: Do We Have to Wait for the Next Mayor for a Car-free Market Street? 10
Mon 2: A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard 2
February 2009
Wed 25: Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds 6
Tue 24: Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector 3
Mon 23: What's Next for the TEP? 16
Fri 20: The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers 25
Wed 18: Obama Calls For Better Regional Planning Measures in TEA Reauthorization 1
Thu 12: Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices 5
Mon 9: Two-Way Hayes Extension is a Step Closer, Though Obstacles Remain 10
Mon 9: Advocates Ask Supes to Support a Two-Way Hayes 2
Tue 3: Will Senator Boxer Give in to Global-Warming-a-Hoax Inhofe on Stimulus? 2
January 2009
Fri 30: State Legislators Urge Pelosi To Put More Transit Money in Stimulus 3
Wed 28: Paradise LOSt (Part III): California's Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis 3
Wed 28: Nancy Pelosi's Infrastructure Choices 5
Tue 27: Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head 3
Tue 27: Two Action Alerts to Improve Stimulus Package for Transit Today 6
Mon 26: Have Your Say on How to Spend $226 Billion Over the Next 25 Years 1
Thu 22: Mission Greenbelt Zig-Zags Across the Neighborhood 0
Fri 16: Disabilities Advocates Launch Campaign to End Sidewalk Parking 7
Wed 14: State Democrats Unveil Green Economic Stimulus Plan for California 1
Wed 14: 299 Valencia Appeal Fails As Swing Vote Dufty Sides with Developer 6
Wed 7: Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics 1
Tue 6: SF's Parking Experiment to Test Shoup's Traffic Theories 2
August 2007
Fri 24: Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up 1
Mon 20: Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles 44
July 2007
Fri 27: Bike Parking on Steroids 23
May 2007
Tue 22: On San Fran's Market Street Bikes Outnumber Cars for a Day 10
February 2007
Mon 5: The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide? 63