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This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Michael Rhodes |
This week’s Streetsblog Calendar is weighted heavily with transit agency meetings, culminating with the SFMTA’s long-awaited vote on the Bike Plan. It won’t be all work though: Sunday holds major fun. Here are the week’s highlights. Tuesday: SFCTA Board of Directors Meeting. Eddy and Ellis sidewalk bulbs, streetcar procurements, and the Doyle Drive Replacement Project are on […]
MTA Board Votes to Approve EIR and Bike Plan
By Bryan Goebel |
In a decision advocates hailed as a victory for bicyclists in San Francisco, the MTA Board of Directors voted uaninmously this afternoon to approve the EIR and adopt the Bike Plan, legislating 45 of the 56 priority projects, which will add about 34 miles of new bike lanes in the city. A crowd of bicyclists […]
Transit Advocates Gearing up for Friday’s MTA Board Vote
By Michael Rhodes |
Click for full-size PDF: The Transit Not Traffic coalition is distributing flyers to transit supporters. Friday could be a dark day for San Francisco’s public transit system: The MTA Board is set to vote on a ten percent cut in service and increases to several monthly passes in order to cover a $16.9 million budget […]
SFBC Pre-MTA Board Meeting Workshop
By Michael Rhodes |
"SFBC is hosting an in depth one-hour workshop the evening before the MTA Board meeting to approve the Bike Plan on June 26th. We want to make sure all our members understand how the meeting on the 26th will work, and how to pack your testimony with the most important information to convince the Board. […]
MTA Hearing on Bike Plan Packed, Mayor to Hold Presser at 3 pm
By Matthew Roth and Bryan Goebel |
Bicyclists waiting to testify outside MTAB meeting. The MTA Board is just hours away from finally approving the Bike Plan, and is currently hearing testimony from 200 supporters — a cross section of cyclists including business and home owners, mothers with children, families, and people with disabilities — who were organized by the San Francisco […]
Today’s Headlines
By Bryan Goebel |
Controller’s Report Claims SF Streets and Sidewalks are Getting Cleaner (City Insider) SFMTA Committee Approves Parklets in Noe Valley and North Beach (SF Examiner) Transbay Blog Urges a Vote for Bert Hill and Robert Raburn For BART Board Plan to Give SFMTA World Series Tickets to Executive Staff Nixed (City Insider) Rangers’ Home, Arlington, “Largest […]