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How Will SF Fund the Sustainable Transport System a Growing City Needs?
By Aaron Bialick |
Within a few decades, San Francisco’s streets will be even more clogged with cars, more dangerous for walking and biking, and Muni will burst at the seams as more people try to get around. That’s the future city officials warned about at a hearing yesterday, painting a grim picture of traffic-choked streets if nothing is […]
SF’s New “Sustainability Fee” Set to Include a Big Incentive to Build Parking
By Aaron Bialick |
The city’s proposed Transportation Sustainability Fee — which would be assessed on new development to speed up construction of walking, biking, and transit infrastructure — moved forward today with approval from the SF Planning Commission. The commission approved a maximum rate slightly higher than the city had initially proposed but far lower than what some livable streets advocates wanted. […]
Plan Bay Area Passes in a Room Full of Paranoid Conservative Activists
By Aaron Bialick |
Plan Bay Area, the 25-year regional development and transportation funding strategy, was approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments last night. The commissions passed a plan that includes some highway expansions and won’t meet the region’s own goals for sustainable transportation, according to projections, but which nevertheless represents a step forward for smart […]
SF Mayor’s Veto of Increased Transportation Sustainability Fee Stands
By Roger Rudick |
Supervisor John Avalos, backed by safe streets and transit advocates, and Supervisors David Campos and Jane Kim, made a push today to override Mayor Lee’s veto of a proposed increase in the Transportation Sustainability Fee (TSF) on large commercial developments. But the override only got six votes rather than the eight required. The proposal would […]
SF Board of Supervisors Meeting
By Robert Prinz |
Agenda [pdf] On the agenda: Planning Code – Transit Impact Development Fee Increase and Updates Resolution approving Amendment to Contract with New Flyer of America, Inc., to purchase 17 additional 40-foot low floor diesel-hybrid buses for $11,780,005 and a total contract amount of $48,669,369 Recommend that MTC Strengthen Provisions of Personal Information of the Clipper Card Program
This Week: Become an Ambassador for Bikes on BART
By Robert Prinz |
On the calendar this week: your chance to train as an ambassador for BART’s Bikes on Board August pilot, SPUR makes the case for linking Silicon Valley and Hollywood with high-speed rail, and more. Here are all the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday: SF Land Use and Economic Development Committee Meeting. The committee will consider a […]