Should the CTA adopt women-only transit? Interviews with Chicago women suggest yes
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Women-only transportation helps to dismantle one of the barriers that women face daily, so it should be seriously considered in the Chicago and other U.S. cities.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Bummer Market Street Approved (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- Bayview-Hunters Point Gets Express Bus to Downtown (SFExaminer)
- New Era for S.F. Scooters (SFChron)
- Fed Grant to Help Transit Deal with COVID (ProgressiveRailroading)
- Federal Stimulus Dollars Could Push these Projects (BizTimes)
- Chinatown Relief Measure Passes Board of Supes (Hoodline)
- Bay Area Hit by High Winds, Power Outages (SFGate)
- Did Shutting Down Outdoor Dining Make COVID Worse? (SFGate)
- Ross Retains Francis Drake Blvd. Name (MarinIJ)
- Berkeley Starts Housing Project in People’s Park (Berkeleyside)
- Letters: Speed Kills (EastBayTimes)
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This Week: Geary, GHGs, Smart City Cycling
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most in-person events have been canceled. Here is a list of (mostly) online/webinar events this week.
Metro Proposes $73.2M Loan to Caltrans for Overruns on 5 Freeway Widening through Burbank
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Next week, the Metro board Construction Committee will consider throwing good money after bad – on a mismanaged freeway widening project through Burbank.
How to Stop Giving Parking Developers A Free Ride
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There are good reasons of efficiency and fairness for asking parking lot owners to pay more toward dealing with the costs they impose. A tax on parking could be one way to get it done.
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Board to Vote on Market Street Without Protected Bike Lanes (SFExaminer)
- BART Police as Social Workers (SFChron1, SFChron2)
- Can Work from Home Cure Traffic? (EastBayTimes)
- San Jose Transit and COVID Relief (SJSpotlight)
- UCSF Pledge to Reduce Traffic (SFExaminer)
- Sunset NIMBYs Oppose Affordable Housing (SFChron)
- NIMBY ‘Think Tank’ Challenges Housing Math (MercNews)
- Why Some Tech Workers are Leaving Bay Area (SFGate)
- Bay Area Begging for More Vaccine (SFChron)
- Record Temperatures and Winds Increase Fire Risk (SFGate, SFExaminer)
- Commentary: Housing Security is Fundamental (SFExaminer)
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Editorial: The Correlation Between Rail Opponents and the Insurrection
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Aren't fascists supposed to like trains?
Caltrans Releases New Safety Guidance for Land Use Projects Statewide: Consider Bikes and Peds
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Webinar explains and discusses new guidance, which calls for greater attention to bicycle and pedestrian access and safety at new developments
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- BART Expanding “Ambassador” Program (EastBayTimes)
- Board Urges 2nd Cop Prosecuted in Oscar Grant Killing (SFExaminer)
- Major BART Delay (SFGate)
- S.F. to Add 500 More Scooters (SFChron)
- Program to Expand Train Service Between Bay Area and Salinas (Herald)
- Motorist Kills Pedestrian in Ashland (EastBayTimes)
- Biden Unveils Huge Stimulus Plan (SFGate)
- COVID Testing Bus Rolls (KRON4)
- Why Hasn’t S.F. Opened a Mass Vaccination Site (SFGate)
- Online MLK Celebrations (SFExaminer)
- Really Dumb PPE (SFGate)
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Streetsblog will not publish on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 18.
NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike
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The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.