Day: July 13, 2010

Despite the difficult economic times and the large service cuts last December and again in May this year, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) announced that Muni had achieved its best quarterly on-time performance rate ever, or 75 percent, from January through March, 2010.

The fat lady hasn’t sung yet, but the country’s auto dealers have been exempted from the financial reform bill now in its final stage in Congress. Given that the purpose of the bill is to protect Americans from harmful manipulation by the people selling them financial products, this is a pretty stunning development. The nation’s auto dealers either provide or broker most of the $850 billion worth of currently outstanding car loans across America. That’s a pile of financial product: It’s more than household credit card debt and second only to home mortgages.

As California's big four metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) run models to determine how much they can influence California's growth and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, significant questions remain. The state's Senate Bill 375, typically referred to as the Anti-Sprawl Bill, requires that planners and policy makers develop meaningful solutions to reduce sprawl, reduce vehicle miles traveled and promote growth in areas that will have the least impact on the environment.

Elsbernd/SPUR Muni Measure Certified for November Ballot (City Insider, SF Examiner) MTC to Consider Allocating Millions for 24th Street BART Station Upgrade (SF Examiner) Hunter’s Point Plan Before SF Supes Today; Chiu Offers Amendments (City Insider, SF Examiner) San Mateo Approves Office Development near Hayward Park Caltrain Station (Daily Journal) Alta Planning & Design Lands … Continued