Day: February 27, 2012

Last week’s big news — that the House transportation bill faces a likely overhaul by its Republican authors — rippled through Washington faster than you can say, “gas tax increases are off the table.” Very little is known yet about the revised House bill, except that it will probably restore dedicated funding for mass transit, which is good but by no means a fix.

Gas prices, you may have heard, are on the rise again. And so is pandering about pain at the pump. Four years after $4 a gallon gas spawned “Drill, Baby, Drill” and insane political gimmickry on the presidential campaign trail (remember the “gas tax holiday” favored by John McCain and Hillary Clinton?), gas price populism is back with a vengeance.

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Across the country, everyone’s looking to San Francisco when it comes to parking policy. Big cities like Los Angeles and New York City are moving toward their own versions of the pioneering SF Park system, which sets meter rates based on the actual demand for parking spaces.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

From SFBP:

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Google and SVBC will host a town hall meeting at the Mountain View Adobe Building on Wednesday, March 7. The topic of discussion will be Google’s upcoming campus expansion and the Stevens Creek Crossings project. Even more exciting–they will also be gathering input on what types of infrastructure projects people would like to see funded in the … Continued

From SVBC: Join Greenbelt Alliance for the third Walk the Talk forum on the Grand Boulevard Initiative, part of a series reimagining El Camino Real through the Peninsula. El Camino Real connects historic downtowns and features large parks, diverse shopping opportunities, and Caltrain, BART, and bus service. Do you have ideas on how to make … Continued