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'Proxy' in Hayes Valley is a great example of vacant lots going to good interim uses (such as dancing). Photo: David Baker Architects

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SPUR Talk: Enlivening Spaces in the Interim

By Roger Rudick | Sep 7, 2017

“Why wait five or six years before doing anything with the space?” was the question Brad Leibin, an‎ architect at David Baker Architects, was asked to help solve about an affordable housing project planned for West Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue at 34th Street. “So we started to make a difference on that streets-cape immediately … […]

SPUR Talk: Dancing on the Grave of “Level of Service”

By Roger Rudick | Jun 2, 2016 | 42 Comments

Wednesday evening, SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, sponsored a talk entitled “Reconsidering Transportation to Create Better Urban Spaces” at their new downtown Oakland location. The talk focused on the history and damage done by the almost mindless adherence over the years to Level of Service (LOS) on urban spaces […]

Overcoming the Barriers to a Seamless Bay Area Transit Experience

By Ratna Amin | May 21, 2015 | 18 Comments

Ratna Amin is SPUR’s Transportation Policy Director. This piece originally appeared in SPUR’s The Urbanist. The Bay Area’s prosperity is threatened by fragmentation in the public transit system: Riders and decision-makers contend with more than two dozen transit operators. Inconsistent transit experiences and disjointed planning and investment make our transit system less efficient, less usable, […]

SPUR Ocean Beach Erosion Plan Shelves Road Diet for Great Highway

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 27, 2014 | 22 Comments

SPUR has set adrift its proposal to halve the size of the Great Highway along Ocean Beach, as the group strives to avoid distracting attention from implementing the other priorities in its Ocean Beach Master Plan. A road diet may be revisited later, once more pressing concerns have advanced. SPUR calls the OBMP “a comprehensive vision to […]

SAP Arena Wants Parking Crater Around San Jose Diridon Caltrain Station

By Andrew Boone | Jun 6, 2014 | 18 Comments

SAP Center, the corporation that owns the 19,000-seat arena across Santa Clara Street from San Jose’s downtown Caltrain station, doubts that the next 30 years of transit improvements will bring more visitors to events at the “Shark Tank.” Instead, they insist that 20,000 new car parking spaces be built within its redeveloping neighborhood. “It is […]

Clipper Card Upgrade Could Bring Seamless Regional Travel, Or Not

By Andrew Boone | May 13, 2014 | 55 Comments

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission will soon renew its contract for Clipper, the Bay Area’s “all-in-one transit card.” Transit advocates are urging MTC to use the opportunity to create a more seamless fare system, and remove barriers that could allow Clipper payments on both the region’s transit agencies and “first-and-last-mile” trip services. Transit riders can currently […]

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