Month: August 2012

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

For the fifth year, San Francisco's transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported last December that while overall traffic fatalities in the United States dropped in 2010, pedestrian deaths rose higher – up four percent in 2010 over 2009. Yesterday, the agency released some more detailed statistics about those crashes [PDF], but the report includes scarcely any data or analysis about the underlying causes of pedestrian deaths.

For nine months now, Philadelphia's awesome new public space "The Porch" has been flying under the nation's livable streets radar.

The problem of inadequate infrastructure is not unique to the United States. Nor is the scourge of political dysfunction that leaves commuters stranded waiting for the next bus, pedestrians sprinting across eight lanes of traffic, and motorists stuck in gridlock.

More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill

From Muni Diaries:

One month after the SF Municipal Transportation Agency switched to system-wide all-door boarding, an early report from the agency shows some significant increases in bus speeds.

This week, the BART Bicycle Task Force reviews the first day of the rush hour bikes-on-board pilot, Transbay Center staff holds a public meeting on upcoming construction, and the East Bay Bike Party draws us in with a Sharpie Ride.