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Today’s Headlines
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New GG Bridge Barrier Causes Drivers to Speed; CHP to Increase Enforcement (KRON 1, 2, KTVU) Proposed City Code Amendment Would Privatize Privately-Owned Public Open Spaces (SocketSite) Uber Reports 11,000 Active Drivers in SF (Exam) DMV Says “Ride-Share” Drivers Need Commercial Plates; Uber Bars Drivers Who Comply (Buzzfeed) SF Bicycle Coalition Rides San Jose With the Silicon Valley Bike Coalition and Bike […]
The Battle for the Richmond Bridge Bike Path
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At long last, Saturday will see the opening of the Richmond San Rafael Bridge bike path. By some counts, the fight for the path has gone on for close to fifty years.
Bay Area Toll Authority Mulls Toll Increase Scenarios, Seeks Public Input
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Photo: kpmarek As the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) continues its regional public hearings, including one tonight in San Francisco, the various options the agency is proposing for increasing bridge tolls are generating a number of debates and proposals, including the funding of the long-discussed pedestrian/bicycle/maintenance paths over the west span of the Bay Bridge. […]
Castro Street to Point Molate Bay Trail Connection Community Workshop
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From EBBC: Come to this community workshop and share your ideas regarding the proposed Bay Trail connection between Castro Street and the existing trail under the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge. The Bay Trail connection to Point Molate is a planned multi-use trail that will provide non-motorized access from Richmond to Point Molate. The Trail will close […]
Marin Supervisor Asks Officials to Study Converting Future San Rafael Bridge Bike and Ped Path into Another Car Lane
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Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. A Marin County Supervisor, who represents San Rafael, apparently wants to look at nixing plans for the long-planned bike and ped path on the […]
Award-Winning Bay Area Bridge Will Soon be a Failure
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The California Transportation Foundation chose to recognize a plan that added a third lane of traffic on the eastbound portion of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge last year as its 2018 Freeway/Expressway Project of the Year, at a ceremony in Sacramento last month.
Apparently Los Angeles’s widened Interstate 405 didn’t fail spectacularly enough.