Year: 2009

With memories of last spring's budget battle still fresh in mind, the MTA announced in a mid-year budget presentation [PDF] today that it now faces a $45.1 million deficit and plans to cut 250 positions across the agency as part of its plan to help close the gap.

"This trip through San Francisco's lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city from downtown north, covering the heart of the city, the waterfront and Yerba Buena cove, Telegraph Hill, Black Point, and Crissy Field in the Presidio... It's a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city's ecological past and present."

"Every week, the Velo Girls lead a women's bike ride (on the 2nd Sunday of the month boys can join the co-ed ride). Other Sundays are the Leader's Choice rides."

"Ride your bike to the American Conservatory Theater for tonight's performance of November and let the SFBC park your bike. David Mamet's fiendishly funny, over-the-top new comedy November, fresh from its smash-hit success on Broadway, offers no mercy in its satirical stab at American politics."

"The SFMTA will be hosting an information meeting on the 2003 draft Glen Park Community Plan. The meeting will focus on proposed transportation improvements projects presented in the 2003 Glen Park Community Plan that will be carried forward into the environmental review phase, including the Glen Park Bike Lanes from the Bike Plan."

"The Bicycle Advocacy Group at San Francisco State University (SFSU) is organizing Bike to School Day on Wednesday, November 4. The event aims to promote cycling as a healthy, sustainable and fun way to get to campus and volunteers are needed to make this the best Bike to School Day yet."

"The public workshop for the LPA (Locally Preferred Alternative) has been split into two sessions, one with the Transportation Commission and the other with the Planning Commission. Opportunities to learn about BRT and the draft LPA proposal will be provided from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM before the meetings. Public comment will be taken at the commission meetings which will begin at 7:00 PM. Agendas and staff reports for these meetings will be posted on this site as they become available.

Republicans on the Senate environment committee made good on their vow to boycott this morning's first meeting on climate change legislation, leaving Democrats to poke holes in the GOP's insistence on a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analysis of the bill.