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ULI Talk: The Bay Area’s Transportation Future
It costs $2.25 to go one block on the Geary 38 bus, but someone driving a Tesla can use all of San Francisco’s streets for free. “It’s fundamentally inequitable” said Jeff Tumlin, Principal and Director of Strategy at NelsonNygaard Consulting, during a panel discussion at San Francisco’s Urban Land Institute. “We even manage traffic signals based on … Continued
February 28, 2018
Bike Coalition Continues Push for a Safer SoMa
There are five bike lane projects in various phases in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco (SoMa). Long-term improvements to Folsom and Howard are in the planning phase; there will be an open house in April to finalize those designs. Fifth Street will hold an open house to present initial designs. And Townsend and 7th Street are awaiting scheduling of public outreach meetings.
February 21, 2018
Valentine’s Muni Malfunction Underscores Lack of Interagency Cooperation
A switch fault Wednesday left thousands of Muni customers delayed and peeved.
February 15, 2018
Better Market Street Update
City presents refined plans to modernize and transform San Francisco's main thoroughfare
February 13, 2018
Firefighters Try to Hose Vision Zero
Safe-streets advocates were outraged today to read that some San Francisco firefighters are still vying to veto Vision Zero projects. According to a story in yesterday's SF Examiner, Firefighters Local 798 sent a questionnaire to all the mayoral candidates which included:
February 8, 2018
SPUR Talk: the Future of Advocacy in the Bay Area
"I lived in Noe Valley, in a rent-controlled unit, and a neighbor wanted to turn a one-story building into a two-unit building--and the neighborhood lost their mind," recalled Laura Clark, at Tuesday evening's panel discussion on the future of advocacy in the Bay Area.
February 7, 2018
San Francisco Wants More Transportation Options
A majority of San Francisco voters want more subways, more bike lanes, more buses, and more investment in Caltrain, according to the 2018 Dignity Health CityBeat Poll, released by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
February 6, 2018
BART Signs, Caltrain Electrification, Amtrak and SFMTA’s Annual Report
Small but significant announcements came out of several large transit agencies this week. Here are a few highlights to start your weekend:
February 2, 2018
Regional Measure 3 Heads for the Ballot
Tolls on most Bay Area bridges will reach $9 by 2025 to raise $4.45 billion for transportation projects, if Regional Measure 3 (RM-3) is approved by voters in June.
January 25, 2018
Let’s Cut the Bars Between Muni and BART
If you commute by BART and Muni, you've no doubt been in the frustrating situation shown in the lead image. You get off your BART train at Civic Center or one of the other downtown stations, run up the stairs, tag out of BART, run across the mezzanine, tag into Muni, run back downstairs, and miss your train by seconds. At off-peak times, this can easily add twenty minutes to your trip. And thanks to the cage bars around the stairs, sometimes you actually get to see the train you're going to miss as you rush through this Habitrail for humans.
January 12, 2018
