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SPUR Talk: Emeryville Sets the Way for Housing, Bike Infra
By Roger Rudick |
When it comes to housing and transportation, Emeryville is out front
Meet Bay Area Bike Share
By Aaron Bialick |
Update 4:53 p.m.: The SFMTA just launched a bike-share station crowdsourcing map (using, we should note, a tool from OpenPlans, Streetsblog’s parent organization). The agency wants “people’s comments on where they would like to see Bay Area Bike Share stations as well as what they think of the initial 35 station locations,” said spokesperson Ben Jose. It’s probably […]
This Week: Volunteer Night, Bike Theft, State Transit
By Roger Rudick |
Here is a list of events this week.
BikeSummit Preview: Advocacy Success Stories
By Melanie Curry |
As a preview of the upcoming California Bicycle Summit, CalBike recently offered "Advocacy Success Stories," a sort of mini-summit session.
SPUR Talk: Running a Big City DOT
By Roger Rudick |
Seleta Reynolds, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, was working at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets section three years ago, when a friend called and asked if he could put her name in the hat for manager of LADOT. “I giggled and said I’m not qualified,” she recalled at a […]
An Emerging New Bike Plan for San Francisco is a Bold Path Forward
By Bryan Goebel |
After four years of an agonizing bicycle injunction that prevented the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from adding any significant improvements to the city’s bike network, a judge earlier this year finally freed the SFMTA to begin building out the city’s long-promised Bicycle Plan. In short order, the SFMTA made some very noticeable improvements, […]