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Caltrans Gets Award for Creating Another Bike and Pedestrian Hellscape
Self-congratulations over two recently opened projects show the agency has no idea what constitutes safe infrastructure
June 17, 2019
BART Train Plant Moving to Pittsburg, CA
Trains won't have to be shipped 3,000 miles anymore. But there remains some irony.
June 14, 2019
SPUR Talk: Equity, Outreach, and the Oakland Bike Plan
In East Oakland, it's all but impossible to separate bicycle infrastructure from fears of gentrification and displacement. So when it comes to bike lanes "I still have questions about who it is for?" admitted Phoenix Mangrum of Cycles of Change, a bicycle education youth program founded in 1998 and based in East Oakland’s San Antonio district.
June 13, 2019
Streetsblog Editorial: Don’t Leave Bike Share Customers Spinning
New branding, lawsuits, pleas from Muni's union--let's think first about transit, bike, and scooter customers who just want to get where they're going
June 11, 2019
Award-Winning Bay Area Bridge Will Soon be a Failure
The California Transportation Foundation chose to recognize a plan that added a third lane of traffic on the eastbound portion of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge last year as its 2018 Freeway/Expressway Project of the Year, at a ceremony in Sacramento last month.
Apparently Los Angeles’s widened Interstate 405 didn’t fail spectacularly enough.
June 11, 2019
On Arguello, City Again Fails to Protect Cyclists
Arguello "improvements" perpetuate outdated, dangerous designs
June 4, 2019
Rebecca Kaplan Wants to Kill Oakland’s DOT
They've been improving safety all over Oakland...so Kaplan wants that stopped?
June 3, 2019
20 More Miles of Protected Bike Lanes in the Next Two Years?
A rundown of the numbers puts Mayor Breed's promise in context
May 29, 2019
Wind, Tears and Cold Rain Mark this Year’s Ride of Silence
Cyclists do their annual tour to remember the fallen
May 16, 2019
Go Rogue to Stop the Carnage?
With 11 deaths this year already, maybe it's time again to work around a city government that is failing to save lives
May 15, 2019