Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- SFMTA May Delay Geary Bus Lanes to Retain Merchant Parking (RichmondReview)
- More on Supes Pushing for Transit Funds (SFStandard)
- Transit Faces Credit Downgrades (Bloomberg)
- Ferries to Retain Lowered Prices (SFExaminer)
- Driver Plows Through Hayes Valley Pedestrian Street (SFStandard)
- Oakland Councilmember Calls for Safer Streets (Oaklandside)
- Self-Driving Car Kills Dog (DailyMail)
- How Housing Advocate Made a Project 100% “Affordable” (SFExaminer)
- YIMBYs vs. Palo Alto’s Anti-Housing Mayor (SFChron)
- Will Downtown IKEA Open Soon? (SFStandard)
- Commentary: Why I can’t Quit San Francisco? (SFChron)
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The 15 Best Arguments for Bike Boosters: Part Three
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People for Bikes recently developed a a 15-point fact sheet to help counteract misconceptions that often arise when advocating for change, as well as to promote strategies we know work. Here's the third installment.
How To Train an Army of Sustainable Transportation Advocates
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Today, we're sitting down with Carter Lavin, a Bay-area activist who's made it his mission to give people the skills, vision, and capacity to campaign for better sustainable transportation policies in their town.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- More on Ethan Boyes’s Killer (SFChron)
- Sunday Streets Tenderloin (SFStandard)
- And More on State Funding for BART, AC Transit (Oaklandside)
- Robot Cars are Incompetent? (SFGate)
- And Human Driver Crashes into Oakland Restaurant (SFGate)
- South San Jose Driver Crashes into Tree (SFGate)
- Owners Walking Away from Downtown Buildings (SFChron)
- Solar Cyclists (Almanac)
- Bay Area Goats go Nom Nom Nom (Berkeleyside)
- Commentary: Without Transit, Bay Area Will go into Doom Loop (SFChron)
- Commentary: How to Build Thousands More Housing Units (SFChron)
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The 15 Best Arguments for Bike Boosters: Part Two
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People for Bikes recently developed a a 15-point fact sheet to help counteract misconceptions that often arise when advocating for change, as well as to promote strategies we know work. Here's the second installment.
Advocates and Officials Rally to Save Transit
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A mock funeral this weekend underscored the importance of state funding for transit
This Week: Housing, Urban Cycling, Morning Ride
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Here is a list of events this week.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Advocates Rally for Transit Funding (SFStandard, theFrisc, SFGate)
- Plans to Cut Muni Service (SFExaminer)
- BART Keeps Relief Money (WashPost)
- Major Delays on BART’s S.F. Line Over Weekend (NBCBayArea)
- Transit Fails to Recover, Post COVID (CityJournal)
- Mayor Breed’s Budget (SFChron)
- America’s Worst Maintained Roads (Hoodline)
- Districts with Most Sidewalk Defects (SFChron)
- More on S.F. Trying to Block Driverless Cars (SFChron)
- Guide to San Francisco’s Bay Trail (SFGate)
- Cable Cars are 150 (EconomicTimes)
- Commentary: BART and Muni May be F*cked Regardless (SFExaminer)
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Action Item: Weekend Event to Save Transit Funding
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Twenty five advocacy organizations fighting for state funding of public transportation will host a "Bay Area Funeral March & Rally for Public Transit" tomorrow/Saturday
The Debt Ceiling Deal Could Be Bad News For Freeway Fighters
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A poison pill buried within the new debt ceiling deal would "gut" key elements of the nation's bedrock environmental law in exchange for preventing a national default and could make it easier for highway-building agencies to expedite road projects that harm vulnerable communities for generations, advocates warn.
Eyes on the Street: Construction of Fruitvale Ave’s Protected Bike Lane
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Fruitvale Alive is still a project? Who knew?