Why SF Should Strive to Replicate the Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane
On the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, between Market Street and City Hall, the new contra-flow protected bike lane creates a unique street layout for San Francisco. For the first time on a downtown street, people on bikes are accommodated in a way that people in cars are not. Bike traffic goes both ways, while cars only go one.
May 16, 2014
Folks for Polk Pub Talk
SF's Transportation Future and Next Steps on Polk
Join us and our speakers in toasting
May 16, 2014
Muni Tests Train With More Standing Room, Supes Breed and Wiener Approve
A Muni train car re-configured with fewer seats and more standing room was put into Metro service this week. According to the SFMTA, 14 "double-wide" seats were replaced with "single-wide" seats, adding a net capacity gain of "at least ten" riders to the car, which is a pilot project to squeeze more capacity onto Muni's trains.
May 15, 2014
SFTRU, Livable City Want CEQA Review of Sunday Parking Meter Repeal
Updated 4:16 p.m. with comment from Supervisor John Avalos.
May 15, 2014
50 More On-Street Car-Share Spaces Proposed — Support One Near You
About 50 on-street car-share parking spaces could be approved at an SFMTA engineering hearing tomorrow. That's your chance to write in, or show up at City Hall, to support a smart move by the SFMTA: placing car-share vehicles in convenient locations citywide, and putting everyone within easy reach of this alternative to car ownership.
May 15, 2014
Legal System Fails Again: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Amelie
Note: Amelie Le Moullac’s mother, Jessie Jewitt, and other Bay Area musicians will perform at a benefit concert on Friday in Palo Alto at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to Amélie’s Angels, "a fund dedicated to bringing the gifts of education, food, clothing, toys, and most importantly love and laughter, to the children of Haiti."
May 14, 2014
SFFD “Imposing the Authority” to Demand Wider, Speedier Streets
The debate over whether San Francisco's streets should be wider and less safe just to accommodate fire trucks was aired publicly at a City Hall hearing yesterday. Livable streets advocates and Supervisor Scott Wiener, who called the hearing, challenged the SF Fire Department's insistence on wider roadways, particularly its recent eleventh-hour push to change street widths that were agreed upon years ago in redevelopments at Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point.
May 13, 2014