Congestion Pricing Can Be Built For Equity
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City leaders can bust myths about congestion pricing in the public consciousness — and implement road pricing that makes entire transportation networks more equitable, rather than less, a new study reveals.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- BART Director Questions ‘Welcome Back’ Plan (SFGate)
- BART’s Financial Future Balanced but Precarious (SFChron)
- SFMTA Planning for City’s Reopening (SFChron)
- More on Post-Pandemic Transit (FastCompany)
- City Mask Requirements Increased (SFGate, MissionLocal, NBCBayArea)
- MTC Delays Housing Bond Measure (MarinIJ)
- Planning Greenlights Balboa Development (SFExaminer)
- Pandemic Casts Shadow on Hub Development (SFChron)
- Upper Haight Tent Village to Open (Hoodline)
- Courtney Brousseau’s Killing and Spike in Gang Violence (MissionLocal)
- Newsom’s Environmental Cuts (SFChron)
- When Freight Trains Ran Through the Mission (MissionLocal)
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Talking Headways Podcast: Portland’s ‘Rose Lanes’ Busways
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April Bertelsen of the Portland Bureau of Transportation talks about the Rose Lanes project, which are transit priority treatments that aim to get buses and streetcars out of traffic.
Q&A with Oakland DOT’s Warren Logan
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Reflections on pursuing racial equity within a mobility framework
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Is BART Running Out of Money? (SFChron)
- BART’s Welcome Back/Recovery Plan (SFGate, SFChron)
- SFMTA’s Data Driven Recovery (MassTransit)
- California is Opening too Quickly (SFExaminer)
- Still no ‘Open Streets’ in the Tenderloin (Hoodline)
- Neighbors Suing over Stanyan Street Camping Site (SFExaminer)
- City College May Leave Fort Mason (SFExaminer)
- Napa Wants ‘Slow Streets’ (NapaValleyRegister)
- The Best Bike Helmet (SFGate)
- Commentary: Rebuild Japantown’s Peace Plaza (SFExaminer)
- Commentary: Stop Taking Down Street Trees (SFExaminer)
- Commentary: Transit Use and COVID Rates Don’t Correlate (HonoluluCivilBeat)
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How to Get Skeptical Business Owners On Board With Protected Bike Lanes
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Small business owners are often resistant to the idea of removing parking to install better bikeways — but this Portland advocate found a way to persuade them.
Scrapped JUMP Bikes Raise Questions About Waste in the Micromobility Industry
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There were practical reasons for Uber to recycle dozens of perfectly good e-bikes — but we can still do better.
Muni Switching to Bus Intervals Rather than a Fixed Schedule
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All it took was a global catastrophe to get Muni thinking about serving customers, instead of moving vehicles
Los Angeles Proposes Cutting Fares in Half, Introducing Fare Capping
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Under the motion, for at least six months during the COVID recovery, Metro would cut transit fares/pass prices in half
Is the ‘Pleasure Drive’ Making a COVID Comeback?
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Getting behind the wheel has become "outdoor" recreation during COVID-19.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Upgrading Clipper (IntelTransport)
- Public Spaces for Retail (SFChron)
- Prop. 13 Fight in the Time of COVID (SFChron)
- City Opens Tenderloin Parking Lot for Homeless (Hoodline)
- Sanctioned Encampment Riles Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood (SFChron)
- Driver Hits Woman at 24th and Bryant (Hoodline)
- More on Boon for Bicycles (KOB4)
- More on Pier 45 Fire and Aftermath (SFExaminer)
- More on Facebook Rethinking Dumbarton (DailyPost)
- Businesses that are Open (SFGate)
- S.F. Botanical Garden Preps for Limited Reopening (Hoodline)
- Sidewalk Stand up in the Mission (SFGate)
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