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BART Derailment Jams Service on New Year’s Day

It was an inauspicious start to the new year for transit, but it's important to maintain perspective on safety. That said, BART has some serious work to do when it comes to communications and managing incidents

January 2, 2024

Commentary: San Francisco Spent Ten Years Trying to Fake its Way to Vision Zero

If SFMTA and San Francisco's politicians spent as much time, money and energy building real infrastructure as they do on spin and half-baked "better than nothing" schemes, Vision Zero would be achieved. Let's hope in 2024 the city will finally get serious about safety

December 22, 2023

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Preps Regional Transit Measure

Everybody wants to move forward with transit fare and schedule coordination... just don't talk about consolidating BART and Caltrain

December 21, 2023

Tragedy Inevitable on ‘Slow’ Lake Street, Advocates Warn

The battle continues between safety advocates and motorists who are again using Lake Street as a thoroughfare. It is now slow on paper only. Advocates warn that if the city doesn't act, it's only a matter of time before the unspeakable happens

December 20, 2023

Weekend Roundup: West Oakland BART, Tenderloin Safety Money

...and North Berkeley BART transit-oriented housing development advances

December 15, 2023

Metropolitan Transportation Commission Still Punting Housing Requirements

Don't cross this line or else! Okay, well don't cross this line! Wait, don't cross THIS line?

December 15, 2023

SFMTA Opens Possibility of Building Protected Bike Lanes on Valencia

The proverbial chickens are coming home to roost on Valencia

December 14, 2023

San Mateo County Again Claims Adding Lanes Reduces Pollution and Congestion

What's it going to take to get traffic engineers and politicians to stop lying about widening?

December 13, 2023

S.F. Standard Fans Anti-Bike Hate

Advocates were outraged by Friday's feature story that repeats the tired stereotype of the scofflaw, Spandex-clad cyclist

December 12, 2023