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Caltrain's first electric trainset near the factory. Photo: Caltrain

Caltrain Measure RR Passes

By Roger Rudick | Nov 4, 2020 | No Comments

Caltrain Board Chair and San Mateo County Supervisor Dave Pine declares victory

Lake Merritt's short section of cycle track, just after it opened. More is coming. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Bike East Bay Push for More Lakeside Bike Heaven

By Roger Rudick | Nov 2, 2020 | No Comments

Please Oakland, I want some more...

This Week: Prop. 15, Election Day, Election Results Roundup

By Roger Rudick | Nov 2, 2020 | No Comments

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most in-person events have been canceled. Here is a list of (mostly) online/webinar events this week

A diagram of the air flow system inside a BART train. Image: BART

Last Weekend Before Election Day Roundup

By Roger Rudick | Oct 30, 2020 | No Comments

And feel free to comment on what y'all think is going to happen next week in the election

A crash on Market Street, 2016. Private cars are now banned, but taxis, city vehicles, scofflaw motorists who drive down Market anyway, and delivery trucks will continue to put cyclists lives in danger if the city follows through on its "Bummer Market Street" plan. Photo: John Rogers

Advocates Hit Back Over ‘Bummer Market Street’ Plan

By Roger Rudick | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

The city wants to remove key safety features and transit improvements after ten years of outreach, planning and development; advocates say "no way!"

Remember this vision? Turns out it was just bait. Image: SFMTA

City Betrays Advocates with Bummer Market Street

By Roger Rudick | Oct 28, 2020 | No Comments

Ten years of outreach and visioning, all for naught?

A shot of the Jeep, license #AB31H94, driven by the motorist who hit Glauser at 15th and Valencia and then fled the scene. Photo: Glauser

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Another Crash on Valencia as City Drags Feet on Safety

By Roger Rudick | Oct 27, 2020 | No Comments

The latest victim of Valencia Street's incomplete safety measures could have easily been killed... would that have been enough to spur SFMTA into finishing the bike lane?

A look at part of Seamless Bay Area's proposed fare zone map.

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Fare Integration Mock-Up

By Roger Rudick | Oct 27, 2020 | No Comments

Seamless Bay Area creates a working model of a rational fare structure for the region's transit systems

This Week: Ocean Beach, Board Meeting, Caltrain

By Roger Rudick | Oct 26, 2020 | No Comments

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most in-person events have been canceled. Here is a list of (mostly) online/webinar events this week.

Don't worry cyclists, we're going to let you bike on both sides of the tunnel to hell. Image: Alameda County Transportation

Mayor Blasts Oakland/Alameda Freeway Plan

By Roger Rudick | Oct 23, 2020 | No Comments

Alameda Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft calls B.S. on a Caltrans, Alameda County plan to turn the Webster and Posey tubes into I-880 ramps

One of many trains now rolling off the assembly line. Photo: CalMod

Expanded Caltrain Equivalent of Six Freeway Lanes

By Roger Rudick | Oct 20, 2020 | No Comments

That makes Caltrain expansion a relative bargain--plus it won't pollute, cause more road carnage, or induce more traffic jams

Hallelujah! One block of construction zone in Oakland done right for all users. Several thousand to go. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Safest Block on Broadway is a Construction Zone

By Roger Rudick | Oct 19, 2020 | No Comments

Oakland finally follows Dutch/Danish best practices by placing the construction barrier between moving cars and the bike lane

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