Today’s Headlines

By Bryan Goebel
Feb 11, 2009

MTC Committee Could Slash Stim Funds Today for Muni, AC Transit (Beyond Chron)
President Obama: The Days of Building Sprawl Are Over (Veritas et Venustas)
But the Days of Widening Highways Aren’t (VTA Watch)
SF Parks Dept. Will Install 2,000 Parking Meters (SF Gate)
Driver Stabs Off-Duty SF Bicycle Cop After "Traffic Altercation"(KTVU)
Activists Demand Charges Against BART Police Officers (ABC7, Bay City News)
L.A.’s Transit TV Files for Bankruptcy (LAT)
PG&E’s "Smart" Streetlights Get a Test Run in SF (NYT)
Streetscape Plan Would Enliven Saratoga Village (Merc)
How We Drive: "When Is a Stop Sign Not a Stop Sign?"

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SFPD Chief Suhr Misses the Point of the “Bike Yield Law”

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2015

SF Police Department Chief Greg Suhr doesn’t seem to grasp the point of the “Bike Yield Law” proposed by Supervisor John Avalos. “Stop signs are pretty simple. They say ‘stop,'” Suhr told KQED today. “They don’t say ‘yield,’ they don’t say ‘slow down.'” Suhr added that anyone who violates the letter of the stop sign law “will be […]

Avalos Proposes Ordinance Urging SFPD to Let Cyclists Yield at Stop Signs

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 12, 2015

Supervisor John Avalos plans to introduce a policy urging the SFPD to let people on bikes treat stop signs as yield signs. It could legitimize the safe, practical maneuver already practiced by the vast majority of people on bikes, which is legal in Idaho. While SF can’t supersede the state’s flawed stop sign law, Avalos’ ordinance would set a “San Francisco […]

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Sup. Breed Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 29, 2015

Updated at 1:04 p.m. with comments from Dave Snyder of the California Bicycle Coalition. Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs. Breed voiced her position today in today’s […]

Guest Editorial: SF Needs to Get Serious About Connecting Caltrain

By Gerald Cauthen | Jan 5, 2016

The new Transbay Transit Center (TTC) is scheduled for completion in 2017. The foundation of the TTC, and the thing that makes it such an improvement over the old Transbay bus terminal it’s replacing, is its underground train station for Caltrain and High Speed Rail. It will bring Caltrain, the connection between San Francisco and […]

New “No On L” Campaign Combats Cars-First “Restore Balance” Measure

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 6, 2014

A campaign has been launched opposing the cars-first ballot measure that claims to “restore transportation balance,” which will appear on the November ballot as Proposition L. Prop L was crafted by the SF Republican Party, and is bankrolled by $49,000 from Sean Parker, a tech billionaire and Mayor Ed Lee supporter. The slogan of the opposition campaign […]

McAllister Street Set to Get Two Traffic Circles Instead of Signals

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2015

McAllister Street, a popular bike route where SFMTA’s Muni Forward planners want to speed up the 5-Fulton, would have stop signs replaced by traffic circles at two intersections under the agency’s latest proposal. Under the plan [PDF], which must be approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors, McAllister would become the first street to get traffic circles […]