Day: June 10, 2010
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Commentary: Sidewalk Sitting? No Way! Sidewalk Parking? Stay All Day!
One weighs 200 pounds or less, the other maybe two tons or more. One is involved in odd scuffles, the other in nearly 40,000 deaths nationwide each year. One is being targeted by the mayor and the press in San Francisco, the other sails under the radar.
June 10, 2010
Advocates: Brentwood Sprawl Measure a Litmus Test for SB 375
While municipal planning organizations around California try to develop the metrics and models required to meet the goals of SB 375, a law mandating smarter growth, a local voter initiative in Contra Costa County is being held up as a bellwether of the public's support for strategic and sustainable development.
June 10, 2010
How Is a Parking Space Different From a Toilet?
Here’s the analogy of the day from the Streetsblog Network: Parking
spaces are like toilets — at least for conventional planners.
June 10, 2010
Today’s Headlines
Senate Mischief May Cripple EPA’s Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases (NYT) Happy Ending for SF Autistic Girl Whose Tandem Bike Was Stolen (SF Gate) “Perplexing Decisions” Involving Caltrain and High-Speed Rail (Merc) HSR Opponents Pack Bakersfield Meeting (Bakersfield.com) SF Arts Commission Narrows List of Artists for Central Subway Project (SF Examiner) Pedestrian Injured by Driver … Continued
June 10, 2010