Year: 2009

File today's Streetsblog Network post under "where fantasy meets reality."

ATU Members Approve BART Contract (KCBS, CBS5, ABC7) 145 BART Train Operators Earned More Than $20,000 in Overtime (SF Gate)  More on the Bay Bridge Labor Day Closure (Merc)  San Rafael’s D Street Opened to Two-Way Traffic (Marin IJ) Muni Fare Evaders Get $75 Fines During Sting (Mission Loc@l) SF Gate: “Mission Bay Becoming a Real Neighborhood” … Continued

When the plaza at 17th and Market Streets opened up last May, city officials promised more Pavement to Parks projects in short order. Yesterday, there was physical evidence at the sites of two new planned plazas that the city is making good on its commitment.

SamTrans - the buses and paratransit vehicles that run the length of El Camino Real between Palo Alto and Daly City, traverse the Santa Cruz mountains, and service San Francisco's financial district - is preparing to raise fares and reduce service on some bus lines and eliminate other lines in order to close a $28.4 million budget gap.

We're very happy to announce that all you brilliant and dedicated Streetsblog readers can now take your favorite blog with you almost anywhere, even when your service is a bit dodgier than you'd prefer.  Introducing the beta Streetsblog Mobile for your handheld, a stripped down version of the blog for your phone's browser, one we hope facilitates reading while you're on BART or in that droning client meeting and you just have to keep up on that comment thread about personal rapid transit.

Yesterday we featured a post from The Urbanophile about the political and personal costs of carlessness in a small city. Today, we've got something of an antidote to that -- an entry from Streetsblog Network member Bike Skirt in Birmingham, Alabama, about the sense of liberation, connection and empowerment that giving up a car can bring.

Driver Injured When His Car Collides with a Muni Metro LRV in Parkside (Muni Diaries, SF Gate) Union Street Merchants Circulate Petition Opposing Articulated Bus Service (KTVU)  BART Directors, Oscar Grant’s Family Urge Legislators to Pass Civilian Oversight Bill (ABC7) ATU Members Set to Vote Today on Tentative BART Contract (BCN via ABC7) Work to … Continued

Intrepid explorers of San Francisco regularly stumble upon the many ghost streets that still hide all over town, rewarding the patient pedestrian for their diligence. Mostly they are on hillsides where steep grades impeded road building at earlier moments in history, but they're still presented as if they were through-streets on the maps.

"Join the Clean team to beautify your community and help keep San Francisco clean, green, and graffiti free. We are looking for volunteers to help clean up the neighborhoods, parks and San Francisco coastline throughout District 10."