Transit

A few tasty news bites to start your one-year-into-the-pandemic anniversary

Critics are emerging of AB 1091, Asm. Marc Berman's bill that would remake the VTA Board

A hotel development adjacent to Natoma wants to build a big parking garage and revert the street back to cars

SFMTA and OakDOT need to up their game when it comes to bike lane markings and go with a more durable solution

New legislation would shake up the VTA board. But would service actually improve?

Here are a few Streetsblog news nuggets to start your weekend.

Hop on the Piccadilly Line in Central London and in 50 minutes you can debark at any of the terminals at Heathrow Airport, without changing trains. Get on BART in downtown San Francisco, and one can go directly to the perimeter of the International Terminal. Getting further into the airport requires a transfer to SFO's "Airtrain." That's similar to the way things work at Oakland, New York, or many other American airports, where transfers between urban rail systems and people movers" are typical.

Josefowitz : We can’t expect to put a regional measure on the ballot of the scale that was contemplated with Faster without confronting some of the governance challenges we have now.

SFMTA has done almost everything possible to hamstring its own rail service, so why hold back... Or the city could act on its supposed commitment to equity and 'transit first' and fix the T.