Matthew Roth

Transit Operators Get Federal Maintenance Funds (Bay Citizen, Examiner, Fast Lane) More on the Gains from Muni’s Sick Leave Policy (CBS) SF District 8 Candidates Spar Over Position on Muni Reform Measure (SFist) VTA Offers Commuter Express Service (CBS, ABC) Some Riders Rave Over WiFi on VTA Express Trains (Merc) ABC Looks at BART’s Use … Continued

Muni Doctor’s Note Policy Reduces Sick Days (Examiner) SF Park and Rec Hoped to Reduce Bikes Hanging on Trees, Did it Work? (SF Weekly) Examiner Previews Walk to School Day this Wednesday Battle Over Sit/Lie Escalates (Examiner) A Closer Look at Various Vehicle License Fees on the Ballot (Examiner, Marin IJ) Crews Break Through Tunnel … Continued

Pedestrian advocates, public health professionals and transportation planners and engineers will gather in Berkeley from Sunday through Tuesday to discuss how to improve pedestrian trip and injury data collection, both to inform pedestrian safety campaigns and influence the targets for walkable communities under California's SB 375.

The Obama administration got a lot of attention earlier this year when it raised fuel efficiency rules to an average 35 miles per gallon across the nation's fleet of automobiles that will be produced between 2012 and 2016. Now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT), have laid out an ambitious road map [pdf] to push tougher greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks built from 2017 through 2025, standards that hypothetically could push the national fleet average up as high as 62 mpg.

As more teens wait to get their licenses and young adults drive fewer miles annually, advertisers have begun to point to advances in digital technology to explain the trend. Many younger adults use digital media to connect to their friends virtually, the argument goes, and technological innovations will likely reduce the incentive to own and operate a car.

The Central Freeway sections damaged by the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 have been replaced by such a distinctive Octavia Boulevard, for many San Franciscans the double-decked behemoth that used to dominate the neighborhood has become a distant memory. Most of the traffic the freeway carried, however, has not disappeared and now city planners are tracking its displacement on city streets and devising scenarios for reducing it to make surrounding neighborhoods more hospitable to transit, pedestrians and cyclists.

My work routinely requires me to travel to San Francisco City Hall to cover hearings and I would estimate I'm there on average between one and two times a week. I almost always ride my bicycle and in the course of nearly two years writing for Streetsblog, I've never had a problem locking up on the bike racks in front of the building. Unfortunately, that changed last Thursday during a hearing for the CPMC draft environmental impact report.

When is a map worth a thousand words? Bill Rankin, who maintains a website called Radical Cartography, has generated buzz with his racial and income maps of Chicago, which can test stereotypes Chicagoans have about the boundaries of their neighborhoods.

Rarely would one describe sprawl as beautiful, but photographer Christoph Gielen managed to find some of the more incredible developments in the country and depict them in aerial photographs as a testament to the land use patterns he finds so distinctively and disturbingly American.