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Cyclist Pepper Sprayed by Motorist
By Roger Rudick |
Danica Helb, a 35-year-old scientist and researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, was riding her bike on 16th Street Tuesday afternoon from her lab at San Francisco General Hospital to her office in Mission Bay, something she’s done three times a week for the past six years. Between Mississippi and Owens, the […]
“Bike Yield” Passes Without Enough Votes for Veto Override
By Roger Rudick |
The Bike Yield ordinance was heard by the full San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday. It passed, with six “ayes” and five against — two “ayes” short of what’s needed to override Mayor Edwin Lee’s veto pen. The San Francisco Examiner reports that mayoral spokesperson Christine Falvey was ready with a response. “The mayor believes this endangers pedestrians […]
A Rose By Another Name: San Jose’s Bike Party
By Chris Carlsson |
A crowd assembles at the beginning of San Jose Bike Party, April 16, 2010. Let’s just say right away that Critical Mass is a bike party, and the San Jose Bike Party has a lot more similarities to Critical Mass than differences. A half-dozen San Francisco and Berkeley Critical Mass veterans took a field trip […]
Update on the Bullet Train
By Boris Lipkin |
From the project's Northern California Regional Director
SFMTA Readies Limited Roll Back on Mission Transit Project
By Roger Rudick |
SFMTA staff has released its recommendations for compromises to its recently completed Mission Street transit upgrades. In addition to plans to relocate the outbound Cortland stop to the nearside of the intersection, the staff wants to move forward with (from the agency’s FAQ): Removing two of the required right turns on Mission at 26th and 22nd. This will […]
Guest Editorial: Eisenhower’s Parking Policies No Longer Work for San Francisco
By Tom Radulovich and Nick Josefowitz |
The last time San Francisco looked comprehensively at how we plan for parking, Eisenhower was president, gas was 25 cents a gallon, and we hadn’t even started building BART. It was an era when cities came to be dominated by drive-ins and drive-thrus, when streetcar lines were were being torn up, and new freeways were […]