Day: June 1, 2010

The AFL-CIO, a formidable lobbying force in Washington, is throwing its weight behind a Senate bill offered last week that would authorize $2 billion in emergency funding for transit agencies forced to hike fares or cut service in lean budgetary times.

When parking expert Donald Shoup publicized his principle several years ago that cities should manage the demand for curbside parking by adjusting the cost so that there was always an available space, he probably didn't think a large city like San Francisco would move from theory to practice so quickly, nor that the city's SFPark pilot program would be as sophisticated as it is.

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."  -- Susan B. Anthony, 1896.

This week is all about the weekend: check out four bike rides that will prepare you for the San Francisco Pride Parade and get you thinking about what happens to recycled materials. Here are the week’s highlights: Tuesday: SFMTA Board Meeting. The SFMTA Board is back after missing its last meeting due to lack of … Continued

How is a bicycle like a fish? Specifically, a piece of raw fish on sticky rice wrapped in seaweed?

Investigation Continues into Death of Pedestrian at Octavia/Market (SF Gate, KCBS) LAPD Officers Caught Pulling a Pogan (Streetsblog LA) Website Tracks Bike Lane Violations in San Francisco (sf.mybikelane.com) Bicyclists Complain About Gap in the Bay Area Ridge Trail (Merc) “Residents-Only Parking May Return to Coit Tower” (SF Gate) Chronicle Columnist Chuck Nevius Moves to San … Continued

"Considering the adoption of Resolution No. 10-030 approving the August 2010 Service Reductions Plan for Special Transit Service Districts One and Two, effective August 2010, pending receipt of a Title VI Disparate Impacts Study"