Day: May 18, 2010
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Thinkwalks Bike Ride: The Big Shift tour
"Before cars existed, Golden Gate Park was created as an escape from urban pressures. Instead, it turned into a test tube for the cultural shift from horses and coal gas balloons to bicycles and motor-carriages, from the spectacle of the "Gilded Age" robber barons to a literal refuge for refugees."
May 18, 2010
Thinkwalks: Walk The Wiggle
"Before bikes were invented, the Wiggle was a foot trail to avoid these same hills. Change the way you see the landscape as we talk about everything from art and bike politics to floods, lakes and native societies. A quintessential mix of Thinkwalks themes."
May 18, 2010
Supes Introduce Measure Aiming to Bring Accountability and Money to Muni
Four members of the Board of Supervisors introduced a ballot measure [PDF] today that would bring sweeping changes to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni.
May 18, 2010
The Rise of Oakland Scraper Bikes and the Demise of Used Cars in Alameda
A few weeks ago we stumbled across this amazing video of the Scraper Bike phenomenon in Oakland, which we've also documented in this Streetfilm by John Hamilton. In the California is a Place film "Scrapertown," filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari give you another look at Baby Champ and the work he is doing to promote bicycles and community in East Oakland.
May 18, 2010
New Parking App Maps Garages and Meters in San Francisco
When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni and manages city parking policies, completed the first-ever count of all the publicly available parking spaces in San Francisco, the agency hoped software developers would use the data to create apps to reduce the delays to transit caused by drivers circling the block in search of parking. Through the SFPark pilot, the SFMTA intends to make it easier and clearer for drivers where available parking is located so they spend less time in traffic and less time creating traffic.
May 18, 2010
Ford Foundation to Send $200M to Local Transit-Oriented Development
The Ford Foundation, created seven decades ago by a U.S. car industry
scion, notably diverged from its past today by announcing a new, $200
million grant program aimed at promoting the local integration of
transportation and land use planning and a movement beyond auto-based
development.
May 18, 2010
Consequences for Banana-Throwers, and the Case for Human Decency
Today from Texas, the story of some teenagers who thought it would
be fun to throw stuff at people riding bicycles — and of some police
officers who thought what they did was serious enough to track them down
and stop them.
May 18, 2010
Today’s Headlines
SFMTA Board Cancels Meeting Today “Due to the Loss of a Quorum” (SF Examiner) LA Times Columnist Continues Series on Fixing LA Public Transit Camera Catches SF PCO Parked Illegally While Shopping (ABC7) The Father of New Urbanism Looks Back at the Last 30 Years (Atlantic) SF Examiner: “Taxes Seen as Solution to Fix City … Continued
May 18, 2010