Recent Streetsblog SF posts about TransForm

New CA Database Shows How Much Parking Costs and How Little It’s Used

By Melanie Curry | Oct 17, 2014 | No Comments

Zoning laws in California usually require new developments to come with a minimum number of parking spaces. Housing, restaurants, stores, movie theaters — everything requires some number of parking spaces, theoretically based on the best available data. Usually that data is whatever is listed in the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) Parking Generation Manual. Since that manual […]

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CA Transportation Choices Summit Tackles Policy Issues

By Melanie Curry | Apr 24, 2014 | No Comments

The California Transportation Choices Summit, held in Sacramento this week, was an opportunity for sustainable transportation and public health advocates to spend the day learning about current state policies and legislation in the works to change them. This year’s summit was titled “2014: A Year of Opportunity.” The “opportunity” comes in the form of new funds from […]

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TransForm to Host Third Transportation Choices Summit in Sacramento

By Melanie Curry | Apr 16, 2014 | No Comments

TransForm, an organization that advocates for sustainable transportation, smart growth, and affordable housing throughout California, will host its third annual summit next week to discuss the state’s transportation priorities. The Transportation Choices Summit will take place in Sacramento on Tuesday, April 22, and feature speakers from advocacy organizations including the Greenlining Institute, Move LA, and Safe Routes […]

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Advocates Push for Bike/Ped Funding From CA’s Cap-and-Trade Funds

By Melanie Curry | Apr 2, 2014 | No Comments

A coalition of bike and pedestrian advocates are inviting organizations to sign on to a letter [PDF] asking the state legislature to recommend allocating $50 million of the state’s cap-and-trade revenue towards the Active Transportation Program. Currently, none of the $850 million in cap-and-trade funds are allocated specifically for walking and bicycling in this year’s budget. Caltrans recently released its first […]

Wider Highways? Bay Area’s Smart Growth Plan Has Some Glaring Mistakes

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 24, 2013 | 18 Comments

Population growth in the Bay Area doesn’t have to mean more traffic and more suburban sprawl, if it’s planned for in a sustainable way. To that end, regional planners at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission recently released a draft of Plan Bay Area, a state-mandated blueprint for focusing housing growth over the next 25 years near […]

Oakland’s Holiday Gift: Parking Dysfunction and Traffic Congestion

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 30, 2012 | 17 Comments

The City of Oakland would apparently like to think it’s doing merchants and shoppers a favor by declaring all on-street car parking free every Saturday until New Year’s. Of course, parking meters were invented to encourage turnover and allow more driving customers to park near businesses. So while the city’s “gift” probably won’t do much […]

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