Bryan Goebel

Bicyclist Critical After Being Hit by Car at Night in Golden Gate Park (BCN via Merc) USC Student Killed in Hit-and-Run While in LA Scramble Crosswalk (LA Now) Bids Due Tomorrow on Contract for BART Warm Springs Extension (Coco Times) Riders Face Learning Curve with New Golden Gate Transit Fare Boxes (Marin IJ) SFMTA Board … Continued

With San Francisco about to embark on its first pilot street closure, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit this conversation with the Open Planning Project's Executive Director, Mark Gorton, and New York City's Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan, who has taken on the challenge of transforming NYC streets in a series of groundbreaking pilot projects. 

Critical Mass website.

Caltrans Wants to Replace Menlo Park Ped/Bike Bridge to Expand Highway (Cyclelicio.us) Peninsula Transit Ridership Continues to Rise (KCBS) AnsaldoBreda Gets Extension on LA MTA Contract Despite Troubles (LAT) LA Times: “Ethanol Investors Try to Derail Calif.’s Carbon-Emissions Proposal”  Obama Administration to Raise Fuel Efficiency by 2 Miles Per Gallon (AP) Breaking the Shock-to-Trance Cycle of … Continued

Battle Brews Over SF Stimulus Funds (SF Gate) More on How Bay Area Stim Funds Will Be Put to Use (Merc) Bay Area Transit Officials Want to Increase Efficiency (SF Gate) Transbay Blog: The MTC’s Shifting Funds, Shifty Priorities  Worst Service Cuts Since 70s Set to Take Effect in NY (NYT, News, Post, NY1) L.A. … Continued

Los Altos City Council Votes to Save Pedestrian Bridge, Tree (Merc) Oklahoma City Needs to Downsize Its Streets (How We Drive) Mountain View Approves New Development at South Whisman (Merc) BART Shooting Case Delayed by Concerns Over Police Killings (SF Gate) SF Weekly: “Activist Points to Inefficient and Costly Projects Like the Central Subway” SF Supe … Continued

One of San Francisco's cherished literary icons -- poet, painter and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- is celebrating his 90th birthday today, and I thought it would be fitting to bring you his vision for transforming a small block of Vallejo Street in historic North Beach into what would be called the Piazza Saint Francis. 

The troubling photo you see above is what was left of a man's wheelchair after he was hit by a driver early this morning in a crosswalk at the intersection of Guerneville Road and Range Avenue near the Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa. The 24-year-old driver initially fled the scene but returned a short while later with his father, according to the Press Democrat, which, despite the gruesome visual evidence and the fact the wheelchair user was in a crosswalk, still calls the event an "accident":

At yesterday's Rules Committee meeting at City Hall, as first noted by the Examiner, there was some banter between Supervisor Chris Daly and MTA Board Chair Tom Nolan about MTA Executive Director Nat Ford. They seemed to indicate he was looking to leave the agency.

MTA’s Nat Ford Ready to Leave? (SF Examiner) Man in Wheelchair Struck by Car in Santa Rosa Hit-and-Run (Press Democrat) Broken Sidewalk Compares Ped Crossings in Seattle, England, and Louisville (via Streetsblog.net) Sacramento Considering Allowing Cars on K Street Mall (Sac Bee) Government Doling Out More Money for the Auto Industry (NYT, KCBS) Outside Firm … Continued