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See Subway Trains from the Surface of Market Street
Imagine standing on Market Street and seeing bars of colored lights move over the street, tracking the location of the BART and Muni vehicles below.
December 13, 2016
Guest Editorial: TDM is a Roadmap for Sustainable Transportation
Monday at 1:30, the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) ordinance that will require projects larger than 10 dwelling units or 10,000 square feet to adopt stronger measures to reduce auto trips.
December 2, 2016
SPUR Talk: Update on Geary Corridor Bus Rapid Transit
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (CTA), along with SFMTA, is completing its final environmental review for "Bus Rapid Transit" and other street improvements on Geary. Last week, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) held an update/discussion about this busy corridor.
November 28, 2016
Remembering Victims of Road Violence
Yesterday afternoon, advocates from Walk San Francisco joined the newly formed "Families for Safe Streets" and others, for a walk of remembrance for traffic victims. The walk, with a crowd of nearly 100 participants, started at 16th and Mission and followed a circuitous route through some of San Francisco's most notorious intersections, concluding with a vigil in front of City Hall.
November 21, 2016
Muni Driver Mistakes his Bus for a Train?
This happened on Sunday morning near the intersection of Ocean and Junipero Serra. The bus has since been removed from the K-Ingleside tracks. Streetsblog got this photo via a tip. It's unclear how the bus ended up on the tracks. Paul Rose, a spokesman for SFMTA, only said that, "The operator of the bus drove on the tracks at that location. We had to get a tow truck to remove it. Shuttles provided service through the area to West Portal."
November 21, 2016
SFMTA Gets Input on Plans for a Better Embarcadero
Yesterday evening, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency held an open house, at Pier 1 on the Embarcadero, to get public feedback for the Embarcadero Enhancement Project. From the SFMTA website:
November 18, 2016
Exit Interview: Director Tom Radulovich Reflects on 20 Years with BART
Tom Radulovich, as most Streetsblog readers probably know, is retiring from BART at the end of the year. He was first elected to the BART Board of Directors in November 1996, to represent the 9th District, which includes portions of San Francisco. He serves on the board's Personnel Review Special Committee and on the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board.
November 17, 2016
SPUR Talk: Running Public Transportation Like a Swiss Watch
Yesterday evening, Andrew Nash and Ulrich Leister, transit consultants from Europe, explained to an audience at SPUR's Oakland location what California needs to do to make its transit and intercity rail as user-friendly as it is in Switzerland and Denmark. "The most important thing is the service," said Leister a railroad consultant and CEO for the North American operations of SMA, who is also working to help California develop its statewide rail projects. "And that the product is something to be used by the public."
November 16, 2016
Election Reflection: The Bay Area Needs More Bridges to the Rest of America
Streetsblog editors from New York, Washington and Los Angeles have tried to make sense of what happened on Tuesday, and what it means to the livable-streets movement.
November 10, 2016
SPUR talk on Local Measures: BART Bond Passes, Mixed Results on Others
This afternoon, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), hosted a post-election analysis of local races and measures with political consultants David Latterman of Fall Line Analytics and Alex Clemens of Lighthouse Public Affairs.
November 9, 2016