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A Bike and Roll Plan for San Francisco’s Future
...if SFMTA can deliver
Trish Gump and Zach Lipton
November 18, 2024
Open Letter to New Administration: Unite to Solve America’s Roadway Crisis
"Just as we know the top factors causing roadway deaths, we also have the solutions to stem the traffic safety crisis. The key now is leadership – to act on this knowledge and put proven, life-saving tools in place."
November 15, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Biden Administration’s Transportation Policy Legacy
Former U.S. DOT Director of Public Affairs Dani Simons, now of Alstom, on how Biden Administration policies evolved from ideas to bills such as the IIJA and Inflation reduction act.
November 14, 2024
How State DOTs Keep the Public In the Dark About How They Spend Our Transportation Dollars
State DOTs control hundreds of billions of dollars of our transportation funding. Where does it all go — and what do we actually get for it?
November 13, 2024
Op/Ed: The Bay Area Needs Transit Funding, but Future of Regional Measure Is Unclear
Time is running out for the MTC to come up with a framework that has enough regional agreement to pass.
Laurel Paget-Seekins
October 16, 2024
Officials Celebrate Lackluster West Portal Safety Installation
The original plans put safety first and gave transit priority over individuals in cars. The watered-down, plastic-and-paint 'compromise' that was ultimately installed is profoundly disappointing.
October 15, 2024
Op/Ed: Why Transit Advocates Should Be Wary of Proposition D
San Francisco's transit system is undergoing a transformation, but Proposition D threatens to derail this progress by giving the mayor unchecked control over the SFMTA.
Tricia Gump
October 11, 2024
Op-ed: Mike Chen Joins SFMTA Board—is Change on the Horizon?
For those of us familiar with Chen’s work in urban planning and transportation advocacy, his appointment is promising
Trish Gump
October 1, 2024
My Favorite Bay Area Bridge Is The Coliseum BART Pedestrian Bridge
...it also means an end to a 51-year chapter for the Coliseum BART Pedestrian Bridge.
Justin Bai
September 30, 2024
Report Details the Unfulfilled Promise of Complete Streets in Caltrans Projects
The following post first appeared at Calbike. Today, CalBike is releasing a new report: Incomplete Streets: Aligning Policy with Practice at Caltrans. The report details where Caltrans has succeeded in adding elements for people biking, walking, and taking transit when it repairs state roadways that serve as local streets. But the findings also detail, for the […]
The post Report Details the Unfulfilled Promise of Complete Streets in Caltrans Projects appeared first on Streetsblog California.
September 30, 2024
