Aaron Bialick

From SF Planning:

Santa Clara County's Valley Transportation Authority says it does not plan to reduce light-rail service in order to move more cars at Levi's Stadium during the post-game traffic crunch.

The SFMTA has launched a new ad campaign called "Safe Streets SF" that takes the most thoughtful approach to addressing the causes of pedestrian injuries of any city campaign thus far.

The extension of Fourth Street with a car-free promenade appears mostly complete at the University of California, San Francisco campus in Mission Bay. In 2012 we reported on how this project can connect 16th Street to Mariposa Street and the Dogpatch neighborhood without inviting more car traffic as UCSF builds out its development.

San Franciscans may take it for granted, but to most Americans, the volume of bike traffic on Market Street resembles a Critical Mass ride more than a weekday rush hour. SF's main thoroughfare regularly sees more than 3,000 people ride by the bike counter on weekdays at Market and Eighth Streets -- and that's just in one direction. It may still be a ways away from matching Copenhagen's busiest streets, and it doesn't have raised bike lanes yet, but it's definitely one of the highest concentrations of bike commuters you can find in this country.

Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around and over this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands, a history of bicycling, and about the ships and horses that once did it all before bridges, cars, buses, and railroads. It's a social, historical, and critical tour through the city's transportation past and present.

Supervisor Scott Wiener has introduced a bill that would make the National Association of City Transportation Officials' guides for Urban Streets and Urban Bikeways official city policy. The SFMTA Board of Directors already adopted the NACTO guides in January, but Wiener's legislation would establish them as official guidelines for other agencies to use, including the Department of Public Works, the Planning Department, and the SF Fire Department.

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