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SFMTA to Add Bike Lane Buffer on Howard, Fix at Folsom On-Ramp
The SFMTA plans make upgrades to the Howard and Folsom Street bike lanes, a couplet of one-way bike routes that run through SoMa. A section of Howard will get a three-foot buffer zone added to its bike lane, as well as painted sidewalk bulb-outs. On Folsom, an intersection with the Bay Bridge on-ramp at Essex Street will be re-configured with a new bike traffic signal.
June 26, 2014
Latest Haight Street Plans Replace Most Stop Signs to Speed Up Muni
The Planning Department has an online survey about the Haight Street proposals, available until July 3.
June 25, 2014
Muni to Launch a New, More Legible Map
Tired of looking at Muni's cluttered map? Good news: The SFMTA plans to roll out a new, more legible map of the Muni system.
June 24, 2014
SFpark Releases Pilot Report, Considers Giving Revenue to Local Streets
SFpark has released new comprehensive stats collected during its two-year pilot program phase, documenting the numerous benefits that it garnered by pricing parking according to demand. SFpark is being watched closely by cities around the world, since it's the first program to thoroughly test demand-based parking pricing principles first professed by UCLA's Donald Shoup. But the SFMTA hasn't yet adopted one of Shoup's key recommended strategies: Giving some of the revenue to local community benefit districts to help win support for parking meters.
June 20, 2014
Speaking With SFMTA’s Seleta Reynolds, Nominated to Head LADOT
Earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for LADOT. Streetsblog announced the nomination earlier today via this brief article, which includes the mayor's press release.
June 20, 2014
Seleta Reynolds of SFMTA Livable Streets Named Head of LADOT
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has nominated Seleta Reynolds to be the new general manager for the city’s Transportation Department (LADOT.) From preliminary research on Reynolds’s background, this looks like great news. Reynolds currently works for San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) where her focus had been livable streets, with a focus on building more equitable streets.
June 20, 2014
Chron’s Math: Re-Purposing 0.01 Percent of Parking = “Devouring” Parking
The SF Chronicle published its take on the SFMTA's proposed network of permitted stops for private shuttles. These proposed stops would re-purpose 0.01 percent of the city's on-street parking supply as white zones. According to the Chronicle, that equates to Google buses "devouring parking," as its headline puts it.
June 19, 2014
SFMTA Adds Two Left Turn Bike Boxes in SoMa
The SFMTA installed left turn bike boxes at two SoMa intersections this week. This type of bike infrastructure, new to SF, debuted at Market and Polk Streets last month with the new contra-flow Polk bike lane.
June 19, 2014
Sunday Meter Repeal Needs No CEQA Review, Say SFMTA and Planning Dept.
An appeal claiming that the repeal of Sunday parking meters is an action that requires environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act is baseless, according to responses issued by the SFMTA and Planning Department this week.
June 13, 2014
Are SFMTA’s Proposed Shuttle Stops Enough to End Muni Conflicts?
The SFMTA has released a proposed map of Muni stops where commuter shuttles would be permitted to load passengers, part of the agency's 18-month pilot program to test private-bus regulation. Shuttles currently use many of these stops, and the resulting conflicts between shuttles and Muni buses has led to transit delays. SFMTA says it hopes to reduce bus conflicts by replacing car parking with new loading zones, marked with white curbs, where shuttles can load passengers out of Muni's way.
June 12, 2014