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Congestion Pricing Can Improve Traffic, Fund Transit, Save Lives
Traffic congestion costs the city of San Francisco more than $2 billion a year in lost work time and fuel costs...now San Francisco lawmakers, including State Senator Scott Wiener and Supervisor Aaron Peskin, want motorists who contribute to that congestion to help pay for the costs.
March 13, 2018
Better Market Street Open House
Bikes, transit, public spaces--city readies for giant Market Street makeover
March 12, 2018
Advocates Want City to Tweak Bus Boarding Island Design
Walk San Francisco, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and the Senior & Disability Work Group of the Vision Zero Coalition, are collaborating on bike lane designs and pedestrian safety measures.
March 8, 2018
Advocates React to Testing Truly Driverless Cars on Our Streets
Yesterday the California Office of Administrative Law approved regulations that will allow autonomous car testing in California--without a human backup driver sitting behind the steering wheel.
February 27, 2018
Riding the Infrastructure Accomplishments of the Last Year
Take a ride on SF's best new infrastructure.
February 26, 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
Marin IJ Editors Join Push to Abort Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Path
Momentum is growing to eliminate the planned bike and ped path on the upper deck of the San Rafael Bridge.
February 5, 2018
Berkeley Celebrates Hearst Avenue and Bancroft Way Protected Bike Lanes
Berkeley christened two protected bike lanes today, one on Hearst Avenue on the north side of the UC Campus, and the other on Bancroft, on the university's southern border. "Hopefully, this is the first of many," said Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin, during the celebratory event on Hearst. "Let's make every street in our city a complete street."
January 26, 2018
