Month: February 2009
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Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector
The debate over how to spend the federal transportation stimulus money at the regional level is heating up and may boil over tomorrow morning at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting.
February 24, 2009
Change is Coming to Streetsblog and the Livable Streets Network
I
just want to give all of you regular readers a heads up that you'll
soon be seeing some design and branding changes implemented on
Streetsblog and the Livable Streets Network web sites.
February 24, 2009
What Does Beauty Have to Do With Sustainability?
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we step back and take a look at a philosophical question, courtesy of Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard.
As we go forward into the 21st century, trying to create sustainable
communities, how do we deal with the aging relics of the 20th century's
development patterns?
February 24, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Should the Bay Area Implement Its Own Gas Tax to Fund Transit? (HSRB) The Transbay Blog Adds Up the STA Fund Losses to Bay Area Transit Agencies Why the Auto Industry Bailout is Doomed (Boston Herald via Hugh Bartling) SF Supe Urges Port Commission to Study Northern Waterfront (SF Gate) More on the Cuts at … Continued
February 24, 2009
What’s Next for the TEP?
Bashing Muni, an agency that has been historically underfunded, is a
San Francisco pastime. Riders are used to break downs, delays and general unreliability. Could all that be about to change?
February 23, 2009
A Garden Bike Tour in Bayview
A lot of what makes living in a city so fun is the ability to walk or bike around and see surprising things that you wouldn’t expect, made possible by being in the streets and moving at a human pace, without the membrane of a steel box and corporate radio to mediate your experience. It’s even more fun when you juxtapose the oddities that you encounter with the history that is obscured or revealed by those discoveries. I took such a ride Saturday, down to the Bayview neighborhood to visit some community gardens I’ve been reading about via the Quesada Gardens website. I’ve visited Quesada Gardens a half dozen times since its original establishment in 2002, but this was the first time I met Annette Smith, one of the founders and guiding lights of the neighborhood renaissance that has accompanied the flowering of this remarkable garden.
February 23, 2009
The Mileage Tax Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Last week, Obama DOT Secretary Ray LaHood caused quite a buzz by discussing, in an interview with an AP reporter,
the idea of taxing motorists on the number of miles they travel rather
than the amount of gas they burn. White House Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs quickly came out and publicly contradicted LaHood, saying a miles-driven tax "is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration."
February 23, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Advocates Gearing Up for Wednesday MTC Meeting on Stim Funds (Berkeley Daily Planet) The Examiner Reports on SF Chamber’s Misleading Congestion Price Survey More on the Grim Budget Picture for Bay Area Transit Agencies (Merc) How Do We Make Transit Independent? Cap’n Transit Has Some Ideas John McCain Confuses Light Rail with High Speed Rail … Continued
February 23, 2009
The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers
As we wrote a couple days ago about Jefferson Street, merchants on the commercial street there and throughout the city often assume parking spaces in front of their stores are vital to business, that their customers drive to buy, and that driving customers spend more because they can carry more goods home in their vehicles.
February 20, 2009