Study: Bike Share Saves the U.S. $36 Million Public Health Dollars Every Year
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The long-term health benefits of using bike share vastly outweigh the short-term risks, even in the most polluted and car-dominated U.S. cities, a new study finds — and cities who invest in reducing those risks by loosening car dominance can save even more lives and millions in precious public health dollars.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- SFMTA Won’t Ban Google Buses from Geary (48Hills)
- BART Ridership Up, Other Signs of Recovery (SFChron)
- Anti-HSR Dems’ Latest Rationales (SFExaminer)
- More on Discrimination Suit Against SFMTA (SFChron)
- Pedestrian Deaths at Epidemic Levels (Governing)
- Efforts to Fight Speeding (TheFrisc)
- S.J. Police Search for Hit & Run Driver who Killed Pedestrian (NBCLocal)
- It Takes $127k Just to Make Ends Meet in S.F. (SFGate)
- Crackdown on Unlicensed Street Vendors (ABC7)
- Novato Fight Over Homeless Encampment (SFChron)
- Ode to Tilden Park (SFGate)
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Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars
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This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.
OPINION: To Ban Cars, Socialize Them
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The city could repurpose its huge fleet into a car-share one, starting with the NYPD's huge cache of vehicles.
Four Myths About Car-Light Cities, Busted
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Have a conversation about why America should be less car-dominated, and sooner or later, you’re bound to hear a skeptic say something like this:
“That all sounds great. But American transportation culture will never change. This isn’t the Netherlands!”
Will Virginia’s New Plan Slow Down Drivers?
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Controversies around equitable enforcement and the political unpopularity of speeding cameras mean that no one can say what Virginia's new road-safety program will look like when details are debuted this fall.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Test Trains in Central Subway (SFExaminer, KTVU)
- What Muni Will Look Like Next Year (SFChron)
- Breed Says Some Muni Lines Won’t be Restored (48Hills)
- Air Quality on the East and West Coasts (SFChron)
- Deal Shows Optimism for Office Space (Hoodline)
- One in Four Can’t Afford to Live Here (SFChron, EastBayTimes)
- National Real Estate Market Cooling (SFGate)
- Fate of the Coliseum Site (SFChron)
- Mission Muralists (MissionLocal)
- $20,000 Trash Can? (SFChron)
- Commentary: Oil Funded ‘Think Tank’ Still Hates Transit (EastBayTimes)
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Eyes on the Street: OakDOT Does Ped Improvements on Market, San Pablo
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Where there was paint and posts, now there is concrete
Why U.S. Car Crash Reporting Is Broken
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Almost a third of car crashes involving a vulnerable road user go unreported in the nation’s capital, skewing District crash totals — but underreporting is far from the only thing wrong with reporting standards across the U.S., advocates say.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Will Muni Ever Restore Full Service? (SFChron)
- Is BART the Best? (SFGate)
- Google Expands Transit Crowdedness (Forbes)
- More on Link 21 Transit Expansion (GoldCountry)
- More on Policing Transit (NextCity)
- Oakland Approves Terms for A’s Howard Terminal Project (SFChron)
- More on Climate Change and Rising Seas (SFChron)
- S.F.’s Climate Change Goals (SFChron)
- Driver Kills Pedestrian in San Jose (MercNews)
- Masks Back On? (SFExaminer)
- Berkeley Housing Prices Most Deceptive (Berkeleyside)
- That Swimming Pool Came out of Nowhere (SFGate)
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U.S. Senators tell Cal Lawmakers to Stop Effing with Bullet Train
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Assemblymembers Rendon, Friedman get a good talking to from Senators Feinstein, Padilla over budget delays to high-speed rail