Today’s Headlines
|- Scooter Ban (Washington Post, Curbed)
- SF Impounds More Scooters (SFChron)
- Woman Killed Crossing Ocean Avenue (Hoodline)
- More on S.B. 827 (EastBayTimes, Curbed)
- Tenderloin Affordable Housing (Hoodline)
- Gentrification in Dogtown (SFChron)
- More Trees for San Francisco (SFGate)
- Pilot of Battery Powered Buses (SFExaminer)
- Business and Oakland’s Bus Rapid Transit Project (KALW)
- Vandals Target SoMa Mural (Hoodline)
- Thank London for Getting GoBikes Out of my Parking Space (SFExaminer)
- Commentary: Point Reyes Station Should Become Housing (MarinIJ)
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Parking Madness 2018 Championship: Hicksville vs. Lansing
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The winner will be bestowed with the Golden Crater, eternal shame, and, hopefully, a kick in the pants to fix its sad, sad parking crater.
Today’s Headlines
|- Transit Density Bill Dies in Committee (SFGate, SFExaminer, EastBayTimes)
- SF Home Production Slows (Curbed)
- Supervisors to Vote on Scooter Permits (Hoodline)
- Scooters Keep Scooting Despite Threats from City (SFGate)
- Bay Area Air Quality Worsening (SFChron)
- Hit & Run on SF Police Officer (SFGate)
- Third Motor Vehicle Lane to Open Friday on San Rafael Bridge (MarinIJ)
- Fate of Visitacion Valley Church (Hoodline)
- Tiny House Village Project for West Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
- Repealing Gas Tax Would Hurt Transportation Projects (MarinIJ)
- Commentary: SB 827 Needs NY Style Transit (MarinIJ)
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High-Speed Rail Authority Meets In L.A., Hears From Critics and Supporters
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The CAHSRA board received input on its draft Business Plan and Southern California alignments, but took no action on these
Legislative Update: Tracking Some of California’s Housing Bills
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The elephant in the housing legislation room is S.B. 827, but there are many other housing bills in the works.
Today’s Headlines
| | 2 Comments- Scooters Ordered to Stop (Curbed, SFChron)
- Mayoral Candidates and the Tech Industry (SFChron)
- Money for Crumbling Seawall (SFChron)
- Sidewalk Robots Coming to San Jose (EastBayTimes)
- Progress on Upper Market Protected Bike Lane (SFWeekly)
- Extending Car-Free Twin Peaks (SFExaminer)
- Tourist Industry Pleads with City to Clean up the Streets (SFGate)
- Gubernatorial Candidates on Housing (SFGate)
- Ped Space for Kasper’s Plaza (Hoodline)
- Temescal Murals (Hoodline)
- Bernal Heights Hit and Run Suspect Arrested (Hoodline)
- Commentary: Scooters Could be Key to Reducing Car Use (SFChron)
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A Park too Far: Walk Oakland Bike Oakland Infrastructure Tour
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Before the freeway building age, West Oakland was actually the gateway for the entire Bay Area to the rest of the world.
Can Phoenix Be Shamed Into Protecting Pedestrians?
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For years, the city's streets department delayed action on safer street design as hundreds of people lost their lives. Now advocates hope to force the agency's hand.
“Life Is Sacred” — How Bogotá Reduced Road Deaths and Homicides Together
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The city's traffic fatality rate declined by roughly 50 percent between 1996 and 2006. Key to that result was an initiative to address traffic deaths and homicides in tandem.
Talking Headways Podcast: Data Will Respirate the Future City
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We’ve got a great episode this week with Los Angeles DOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds. Hear how she got into transportation planning and how she views the future of streets, air rights of way, and the best way for cities to collaborate with private mobility services.
This Week: Lower Haight Merchants, Affordable Housing in Oakland, Car-Free Twin Peaks
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday/tonight! Lower Haight Merchants & Neighbors Association Meeting. Want to get more involved in your Lower Haight neighborhood? Have concerns about the proposed removal of a Ford GoBike station at Pierce and Haight? Come to the monthly community meeting for the Lower Haight Merchants & Neighbors Association (LoHaMNA) […]