Matthew Roth

No sizable city in the country, or likely the world, has been able to say with any certainty how many parking spaces it has, public or private, until now. Over the last 18 months, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) has tallied every publicly accessible parking space within city limits, including free and metered spaces on-street and every publicly accessible garage [PDF map].

MTA Board Will Consider How to Spend $36 Million in State Funds (Examiner) Muni Surveillance Cameras Help Capture Assault Suspect (BCN via Appeal) AC Transit Service Cuts Go Into Effect Over Weekend (KCBS, SF Gate) Argument on AC Transit Bus Ends in Fatal Shooting (SF Gate) Golden Gate Transit to Face Service Cuts, Changes (KCBS) … Continued

BART Officer Involved in Oscar Grant Case Fired (Merc, CBS, CoCo Times, SF Gate) BART Director Wants To Preserve Convenience at Parking Lots (SF Gate) MTA Removes Traffic Cops from Market St., Occasional Spot Checks by PD (SF Gate) Muni Safety Chief Leaving for Post at Washington DC Transit Operator (SF Gate) Opposing Media Accounts … Continued

Thank you to all the good people who came out to enjoy the Streetfilms screening last night with founder Clarence Eckerson and Bay Area filmmakers Charlotte Buchen and John Hamilton. We had a packed house and the reaction to the films was very encouraging. A big thanks to Charlotte for the new Bay Area Street Portraits, beautiful vignettes of people in the Bay Area and the bicycles that make up an important part of their lives. It was also very nice to meet Sal and Antonio, two of the stars of the Portraits. We'll be posting those on the blog in the coming weeks.

I've railed on General Motors and Segway in the past for the myriad impracticalities of their tandem Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.) prototype. Now they're at it again, making headlines today by unveiling the first three models in their new Electric Networked Vehicle (EN-V, pronounced "envy") line, including the Jiao, which is Chinese for "Pride."

State Money Could Mean Fewer Transit Cuts, Fare Hikes (KALW, NBC, CBS) But Muni Not Necessarily Using it All to Reverse Service Cuts (BCN via Appeal) SF Cable Car Upgrade Coming After Nearly 30 Years (SF Gate) Passenger Hurt in Muni Bus Crash (CBS) (ABC) Discounted Translink Cards Available for San Mateo Workers (SF Weekly) … Continued

More on State Funding for Transit (Examiner, SF Weekly, SF Gate, KCBS) Suspect in Muni Stabbings to Be Arraigned (CBS, BCN via Examiner) One Hurt When Muni Bus Hits Car (BCN via Examiner) All Ends Well After SF Bus Loses Brakes, Nearly Crashes (CoCo Times) SF Likely to Pass Vehicle License Fee at Ballot (SF … Continued

California transit operators are poised to receive a temporary infusion of $400 million in cash from the state for operating funds, a move that could defray immediate shortfalls and set up a steady stream of state money for the foreseeable future.

After Balking, Gov Signs Gas Tax Swap Bill; Transit Funds Coming (SF Gate, CoCo Times) Sacto Regional Transit Declares State of Emergency, Stalls on Cuts (Sac Bee) Muni Adds Stop IDs at Bus Stops to Facilitate 511 and Nextbus Directions (Examiner) Tips For Getting Worn Bills in Muni Machines (Slowing or Speeding Boarding?) (SFist) Good … Continued

SF Ped Killed by Truck on Muni Island ID’ed, Truck Driver Arrested (SF Gate, KCBS, CBS, ABC) Supporters of Initiative to Curb Muni Operator Pay Gathering Signatures (KCBS) JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park Repaved (Bike NOPA) Sausalito Council Mulls Bicycle Fee for Sausalito-Bound Rental Bikes (Marin IJ) San Jose Bike Party Memorializes Los Gatos … Continued