Year: 2009

The BART strike was averted, and what better way to celebrate than with an exciting week of livable streets events. Here’s a taste of what’s in store. Monday: CCSF Bike Repair Class. CCSF is offering a full-semester class involving repair, maintenance, customizing bikes for hilly San Francisco riding, building bike stands and truing stands and … Continued

"Please join BART and our Project Partners to celebrate BART's "First-To-Break-Ground" stimulus-funded project!"

Agenda.

"SFBC member and environmental advocate Oskar Mosquito is embarking on a 3500-mile ride to the White House. All are welcome to the bonfire and any interested riders are welcome to join Oskar that evening for the first leg of his trans-continental ride from the beach to the Golden Gate Bridge."

Today on the Network, Ohio member blog Xing Columbus questions a recent article in The Columbus Dispatch that attributes Franklin County pedestrian fatalities to carelessness on the part of the victim. According to a Columbus police officer interviewed in the story, local people killed by cars are usually jaywalking or "just walking in the road" -- where "you might not see a person until you’re right on top of them."

Bay Area Wakes Up to Find BART Trains Running and No Strike (SF Gate, CBS5, Merc, ABC7, KCBS) BART Police Chief to Resign After Nine Years as the Agency’s Top Cop (SF Gate) SF Examiner: “Renovation of BART’s ‘Jewel’ Begins Friday” Culture Bus Makes Its Last Run (Transbay Blog)  93-year-old Woman Mowed Down by a … Continued

BART management and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 have reached a tentative deal, averting a strike that was scheduled to start at midnight tonight.

BART management and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 plan to resume talks this afternoon in an effort to avert a Monday strike. 

On Sunday BART workers might strike, throwing Bay Area transportation into chaos. It's a tiny echo of the kind of warfare that used to erupt regularly a century ago on the streetcar lines of San Francisco. 1,500 streetcar men voted to strike for an 8-hour day, leading to "Bloody Tuesday," May 7, 1907, when gunfights exploded between armed guards and men shooting from nearby vacant lots, while strikebreakers housed in United Railroads carbarns opened fire on protesting crowds, killing two and injuring 20. By the time the strike was lost in March 1908, six had been killed in the violence, 250 more hurt, and over two dozen had died in accidents on the system while it was run by scab labor.