SFMTA Engineering Hearing

Includes Muni Transit Effectiveness Project changes on Haight and McAllister Streets, and more.

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Can we consider options that don’t involve traffic lights for all road users? What about crossing signal priority for buses that excuse them from stopping at stop signs, but stop all cross traffic?

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Who Needs A Border Wall When We Have Exclusionary Zoning?

By Homa Mojtabai | Feb 15, 2019

As we watch our brave politicians compromise to build a ‘barrier’ in lieu of a border wall, it’s a good time to remember we have a weapon that’s far more effective at keeping the poor and huddled masses off our (unsustainable) lawns: exclusionary zoning.

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Distracted Denver Councilman Made Video While Driving Daughter to School

By Andy Bosselman | Feb 15, 2019

Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks wanted to cheer on public school teachers as they returned to work on Thursday, but chose to celebrate in a way that risked the lives of his neighbors: he videotaped himself as he was driving.

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Still Fighting for a Safe Way to School in Tampa

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 15, 2019

Hundreds of school children must cross Tampa's dangerous Bay to Bay Boulevard daily. Why is the mayor standing in the way of a safer street?

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Feb 15, 2019

Bullet Train Still Coming to Bay Area (MercNews) Why America Sucks at Infrastructure (Vox) BART to Name Street After Oscar Grant (SFChron) San Francisco’s New Ferry Gates (SFGate) More on Opening Date of Berryessa/North San Jose BART (Curbed) Restoring Weekday Caltrain to Atherton? (Almanac) AC Transit Bus Drives Through Flood (NBCBayArea) Motorists on Opioids (EastBayTimes) Environmental […]