SFMTA Engineering Hearing
Includes shared Muni/shuttle stop pilot, 110 on-street car-share parking spot locations
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Parking Shared Cars Instead of Private Cars Isn’t Exactly “Privatization”
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA’s endeavor to reserve on-street car parking spaces for car-share vehicles has yielded complaints from some car owners who, ironically, decry the “privatization” of space currently used to store private cars. These folks don’t seem to acknowledge the extensive research showing that each car-share vehicle replaces, on average, nine to 13 privately-owned cars. They should […]
Map: SFMTA’s 900 On-Street Car-Share Parking Spots Coming Along
By Aaron Bialick |
Updated with new version of the map here [PDF]. The SFMTA is rolling right along with its plans to reserve 900 on-street parking spots for car-share vehicles, which will bring a convenient alternative to car ownership to more of the city. The agency has published a draft map [PDF] of proposed car-share spaces throughout the […]
Ripping on Silicon Valley Shuttles Won’t Solve SF’s Parking-Induced Problems
By Aaron Bialick |
The corporate shuttles that whisk tech workers from the highly-valued urban habitat of San Francisco down to the burgeoning suburban campus job centers of Silicon Valley are the newest additions to San Francisco’s streets. But while it’s become convenient for critics to point the finger at this increasingly-visible symbol of gentrification as the cause of […]
Transit Researchers Want Your Videos of Tech Shuttles at Muni Stops
By Aaron Bialick |
The public debate about the proliferation of tech shuttles, and the fees they should pay to use Muni stops, has thus far been driven more by emotion than by data and empirical analysis. But two city planning researchers at UC Berkeley are looking to change that by studying crowdsourced videos of private shuttles in bus zones, […]
Are SFMTA’s Proposed Shuttle Stops Enough to End Muni Conflicts?
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA has released a proposed map of Muni stops where commuter shuttles would be permitted to load passengers, part of the agency’s 18-month pilot program to test private-bus regulation. Shuttles currently use many of these stops, and the resulting conflicts between shuttles and Muni buses has led to transit delays. SFMTA says it hopes to […]
SFMTA Engineering Hearing
By Aaron Bialick |
Agenda Of note: Division and 9th Streets – buffered bike lane, painted bulb-outs, and more On-street car-share parking at 36 locations Muni shared shuttle stop pilot program