Streetsblog San Francisco

• Bicycle Strategy Gets Some Good Press Time as SFMTA Board Reviews It (Chronicle, Examiner, KTVU)
• More From the Supes Hearing on the Proposal for a Bikeway on Mission Instead of Market (CBS)
• Muni Continues Long-Standing Practice of Needlessly Idling Buses For Hours Every Morning (SF Weekly)
• SF Weekly Profiles a Former Muni Mechanic and Fervent Whistleblower
• New York Times Maps Out Local Biking Tips for Cities Including SF (Mission Local)
• Wigg Party’s Morgan Fitzgibbons on the Significance of the Wiggle (KALW)
• Two People Killed on BART Tracks in Colma (SFGate) and Hayward (CBS) in Same Day
• Motorcyclist Hospitalized in Crash With Bus on Highway 101 in SF (SF Appeal)
• Muni Tension? Woman Attacks Elderly Woman for Boarding Before She Disembarked (SF Examiner)
• Stanley Roberts Catches Drivers Behaving Badly at Market and Van Ness, Wholesale Produce Market
• SPUR Reviews the State of the Santa Clara/Alum Rock BRT Project
• Video of Elderly Driver Nearly Missing People, Guide Dog on San Rafael Sidewalk Goes Viral (Mercury)

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• Mayor Lee’s Photo Op With New Muni Buses Spoiled by Door Glitch (SFGate, SF Weekly, CBS)
• DPW Orders Removal of Martin Macks Parklet on Upper Haight Street (SF Examiner, ABC)
• Sup. Wiener’s Reform Bill for CEQA Appeals Process Heads to Full Board of Supervisors (SFGate)
• Beyond Chron: Supervisors Need to Break Better Market Street “Logjam”
• KTVU Fields Sound Bytes From Random People on Putting Bike Lanes on Mission Instead of Market
• Safety Fixes at Market and Octavia May Have to Wait for Funding From Developers (SF Examiner)
• Curbed SF Summarizes SPUR’s Report on Removing I-280 North of 16th Street
• Leah Shahum Explains the SFBC’s Approach to Making City Streets Safer (CBS)
• Argument Over Parking Spot in SoMa Leads to Assault and Robbery (Mercury News, CBS)
• Caltrain Service Delayed for an Hour by Man With Knife at 22nd Street Station (Mercury News, SF Appeal)
• GG Bridge District Responds to The Greater Marin’s Proposals to Manage Parking at Larskpur Landing
• Hit-And-Run Driver Kills Man on Bicycle on Taylor Avenue in San Jose (Mercury News, KTVU)

• Bikeway Concerns Expected to “Dominate” Supes Hearing on Better Market Street Today (Chron)
• SFMTA Installs Plastic Posts Along the Oak Street Bike Lane (Haighteration)
• SFMTA Board to Advise Staff to “Go Big or Small” on Bicycle Strategy Tomorrow (SFBC)
• More on the Civil Grand Jury Report on Bike Safety: Proportion of Bike Citations Has Gone Up (Chron)
• Neighborhood Association Survey Asks for Thoughts Improving Upper Market Intersections (CB)
• SF Weekly Bike Columnist Lists Ways to Carry Produce (No Mention of the Simple Basket?)
• BART Delayed By Smoldering Pine Needles on Tracks South of Balboa Park (SF Appeal)
• More on the Design of BART’s Future Train Fleet (SF Examiner)
• In This Supposedly “Transit-First” City, Muni Operators Have to Push Cars Off the Tracks (Muni Diaries)
• CAHSRA CEO Addresses Controversies Over Contractor Also Chosen to Build Central Subway (NBC)
• After Spate of Pedestrian Deaths, San Mateo County Police to Crack Down on “Unsafe Driving Behavior”
• Car-Share Pilot Among Marin Transpo Authority Proposals to Reduce Congestion (Marin IJ)

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• No Surprise Here: The Mission Wants Bike-Share (Mission Local)
• SFMTA Gives Preliminary Approval to On-Street Farmer’s Market on Inner Clement (Richmond SF)
• Hayes Valley Farm Cleared of Protestors to Make Way for Development (SocketSite)
• BART Unions Consider Strike After Approval of Preliminary Budget (KTVU)
• Advocates Discuss Displacement Concerns at SFBG Forum on Plan Bay Area
• Marin County Complains the Loudest About Plan Bay Area’s Perceived Impositions (Marin IJ)
• Marin County Supes Approve Study to Reopen Alto Tunnel for Bikes and Peds (Marin IJ)
• Bay Bridge Contractor to Receive $20 Million Bonus if Bridge Opens September 3 (Mercury News)
• Federal Board Gives Approval for CA High Speed Rail to Begin Construction (Sac Bee)
• Shayla Cypriano, 23, Crushed and Killed by Delivery Truck After Crash in San Jose (CoCo, NBC)
• SamTrans Launches New Blog Called “Peninsula Moves!” (Almanac)
• Construction Begins on New $145 Million, 13-Mile Carpool Lane on I-580 (CoCo Times)

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• 15 Hospitalized in Crash Between Muni Bus and Trolley on Market (SFGate, ABC, CBS)
• BART Unveils the Design of Its New Train Fleet (KTVU)
• BART Looks to Make Its Existing Trains Quieter (SF Examiner)
• BART Set to Approve Balanced Budget Today, Though Shortfalls Loom (SF Examiner)
• This Truck Ruined a Home in the Excelsior: A New Favorite Selling Point for Toyota (SF Weekly)
• $82,000 Parking Space in South Beach Still a Real Estate Bargain (SF Chronicle)
• Uber Unveils Prices Intended to Undercut Taxis and Competitors (SF Examiner)
• Crime Happens Everywhere, But KTVU Just Can’t Help But Play Up the “Dangerous Transit” Angle
• Watch: Dodging an Elderly Driver Speeding Backwards Down a Sidewalk in San Rafael (MIJ, KTVU)
• Belmont Becomes Third Bay Area City to Vote to Remove Red-Light Cameras (CBS, NBC)
• Berkeley Continues to Develop an SFPark-Style Pilot Program (Berkeleyside)
• Bay Area Legislators Question Potential Bonus Incentives for Speedier Bay Bridge Opening (Sac Bee)

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• Supervisor Wiener: Muni Service Needs to Expand to Accommodate Coming Population Growth (CBS)
• Supervisor Kim: Congestion Pricing “May Be the Only Way” to Have a Livable SoMa (KQED)
• SFMTA to Stick to “People Plan” Strategy to Avert Car Congestion at America’s Cup (SF Chronicle)
• Civil Grand Jury Calls for Better Education and Enforcement to Improve Bike Safety (SF Examiner)
• 39-Year-Old Man Dies After Crashing Car Into Tree in McLaren Park (SFGate, CBS)
• Muni, Fire Department Face $542M in Fines for Outdated Gas Nozzles (SF Examiner)
• Fatal Limo Fire on San Mateo Bridge Prompts Proposed Law to Require Exit Doors (CBS)
• Pedestrian Streetscape Improvements Underway on Burlingame Avenue (Mercury News)
• Bay Trail Gaps in Burlingame Must Be Fixed by Private Waterfront Land Owners (SF Examiner)
• Lafayette City Council Votes Against Constructing BMX Park in Community Park (CoCo Times)
• Victims Sue Over April 2012 Caltrain-Car Crash in Menlo Park (Almanac)
• Driver Injures Guido Arnout, 58, While Cycling on Alpine Road in Palo Alto (PA Online)

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• Rope on Muni Electric Trolley Arms Comes Loose at Market and Main, Injuring Four (SFGate)
• Dogpatch Residents Upset About Proposed Muni T-Third Turnaround Loop (Curbed)
• More on Muni’s Efforts to Improve Declining Metro Service (SFBay)
• SFPD Captain: Cyclist Ran Stop With a “Sense of Entitlement,” Was “Menace to Public Safety” (SF Exam)
• Protestors Blocking Housing Development on Site of Hayes Valley Farm (SF Appeal, KTVU 1, 2)
• CAHSRA Makes Deal With Tutor Perini, Central Subway Contractor With Contentious History (SacBee)
• Former BART Head Made $330,000 by Cashing in on Unused Vacation Days After Resigning (ABC)
• Mercury News Repeats CHP’s Erroneous Assertion That Cyclists Can’t Ride Two Abreast
• GJEL Attorney: Cyclists Can Be Deemed Responsible for Doorings in Some Situations
• Mountain View City Council to Approve Budget Advancing 13 Bike/Ped Safety Projects (PTA)
• Pleasanton Driver Hits Cycling Couple, Killing Woman (SFGate)
• Fremont Driver Arrested for Causing Crash That Killed Son, Wife (NBC)

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• What Would Bay Area Bike Share Look Like in International Orange? San Franciscoize Paints It Up
• UC Berkeley Study Looks at the Income Equitability of SFPark (ITS Berkeley)
• New Bike Shop, Aptly Named “Wiggle Bicycles,” Opens On the Wiggle (Haighteration)
• 7×7 Explains San Francisco’s Newest Bicycle Infrastructure
• More On the Homelessness Controversy Over SFMTA’s Move to Restrict Large Vehicle Parking (SFGate)
• Stanley Roberts Looks at Driving Parents Who Don’t Secure Their Child Seats Properly
• CAHSRA Faces Choice of Quality vs. Price in Construction Contracts (CoCo Times)
• San Francisco Man Aims to Walk Around the 330-Mile Long Bay Trail (SF Chronicle)
• Santa Clara County Wants to Make Lawrence Expressway Even More Like a Freeway (Cyclelicious)
• Apple’s Proposed Headquarters Expected to Generate Lots of Car Traffic (CoCo Times)
• Poll: Palo Alto Voters Favor Bike/Ped Improvements, Oppose New Parking Structures (Pen Transpo)
• Palo Alto Driver Flees After Injuring Man in Wheelchair (PA Online, Mercury News)

• Driver Critically Injures Man in Crosswalk at Lombard and Steiner (SF Appeal)
• More on DPW’s Plans to Re-Pave Market Street This Weekend (SF Examiner, SFGate)
• Chamber of Commerce CEO Calls for Sustainable Funding for Muni (SF Examiner)
• Caltrans Chief Deputy Rick Lund to “Focus Full Attention” on Bay Bridge (SFGate)
• Caltrain Budget is Balanced for 2014, But Falls Short in 2015 (Daily Journal)
• SFMTA Board Votes to Ban Large Vehicles on Some Streets, Despite Homeless Concerns (CBS)
• Attorney Explains Vehicle Code Laws Governing Emergency Vehicles (SF Examiner)
• Fallen Tree Disrupts Muni’s 29-Sunset Line (SF Appeal)
• Belmont Residents Want Dangerous Ralston Avenue Improved (NBC)
• Judge Rules Strava Racing App Wasn’t Responsible for Cyclist’s Death in Orinda (All Things D)
• Driver Crashes Into Hair Salon in Mill Valley (Mercury News)
• Federal Government to Withdraw Claim that Bike Helmets are 85 Percent Effective (GG Wash)

• BART Announces Parking Fee Increases at Nine East Bay Stations (SF Weekly)
• City to Start Collecting Taxes on Rented-Out Residential Parking Spaces (SF Weekly)
• Board of Supes Approves Parking-Lot-to-Park Deal for Noe Valley (Noe Valley SF)
• Driver Crashes Into House in Bayview (SF Appeal)
• Stanley Roberts Catches Bay Bridge-Bound Drivers “Breaking Just About Every Rule in the Book”
• Traffic Congestion in SF and San Jose Increased Up to 25 Percent Over Last Year (Mercury News)
• Video: A Sampling of Drivers Cutting Off a Bicycle Rider in SF Bike Lanes (Uptown Almanac)
• Former SPUR President: Parks, Ped/Bike Upgrades Make 8 Washington Good for City (SF Examiner)
• Caltrain Budget Keeps Maintenance Funding, Funds Initiation of Wi-Fi (Green Caltrain)
• Oaklavia to Bring Freedom to Oakland’s Streets This Sunday (East Bay Express)
• Vallejo Driver Fleeing Police Arrested After Trying to Drive Into Filipino Parade (CoCo Times)
• State Judge Weighs Cases in Lawsuit Over High-Speed Rail’s Voter-Approved Bonds (SacBee)

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