Roger Rudick
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Open Thread: Reality Check on Bus Service and the Salesforce Transit Center
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What if the money had been spent on minor upgrades to stations throughout the East Bay, such as adding arrival signs, benches, and shelters? What if the money were spent on more buses, more drivers, and better bus fleets with comfortable seats and suspensions?
This Week: Ped Safety, Waterfront and the Big One, Urban Villages
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. PSAC has been charged with providing expertise on issues concerning pedestrian safety, convenience, ambiance, and planning as well as advocating for pedestrian safety by engaging the public, Board of Supervisors and other relevant agencies. Come join their regular meeting. Tuesday, August 14, 6 p.m., […]
After Recent Deaths, Bike East Bay Renews Call for Safety Fixes
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John Wheeler, Christopher Bunag, Deontae Bush, and Martin Nelis all killed by motorists in just the past few weeks
BART Board Hears Proposed Security Measures
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Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. This morning at its regularly scheduled meeting, the BART Board of Directors heard a list of proposals from the agency’s General Manager, […]
Sneak Peek at the Salesforce Transit Center
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A look inside San Francisco's new Transbay bus facility
Oakland Police Throw Rich City Rides’s Najari Smith in Jail
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This past Friday, August 3, Najari Smith, founder and executive director of Rich City Rides, was leading a group of young people to a Friday Night Bike Party ride, sometime between 8:30 and 9. He was towing his music system on his bike when he was arrested by Oakland Police, in or near the parking […]
BART General Manager Proposes a ‘Safety and Security Action Plan’
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BART General Manager Grace Crunican will be seeking BART Board approval for a $28 million “comprehensive Safety and Security Action Plan.”
This Week: Inequality, Public Safety, Valencia Street
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday Regional Strategies to Tackle Inequality. California has both remarkably prosperous and struggling regions. How do we factor these regional differences into policies to tackle inequality? How might the minimum wage, earned income tax credit, and asset-building strategies work together to ensure that everyone in Northern California […]
BART Preps for Weekend Maintenance to the Oakland Wye
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Just a quick reminder that BART will be working on the Oakland wye this weekend, so trains from San Francisco won’t run beyond West Oakland station. BART will run a free bus bridge between West Oakland and 19th Street Station, where riders can transfer back to trains to reach all other East Bay destinations. This […]
Oakland’s Swift Safety Strategy Coming to Lake Merritt Station
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DOT makes plan for safety fixes around Lake Merritt BART as if lives depend on it
Trying to Find the Truth in the Latest LA Times, NY Times CA High-Speed Rail Pieces
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Earlier this week, both the New York Times and the L.A. Times published articles on California High-Speed Rail. The NYT tells the overall CAHSR story in an informative and fairly balanced way. The L.A. Times continues its long history of misleading CAHSR articles by Ralph Vartabedian.
SPUR Talk: The Business of Public Transit
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It has customers. It takes in revenue. It provides a service. Public transportation sounds like a business, doesn't it?