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SF Edges Closer to Compensating Merchants Throughout the City
At this morning's meeting of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, four of San Francisco's Supervisors made it clear they want to give money directly to businesses that are taking losses because of the city's many ongoing construction projects. "Small businesses are feeling squeezed on every side. Small businesses are already struggling to keep up in an increasingly expensive city. For residents, impacts are short-lived, but for merchants these impacts can seal their fates," said Supervisor Norman Yee, whose constituent merchants in West Portal were hit by sewer and curb work a couple of years ago. "I am committed to exploring how to prevent future businesses from shuttering."
September 20, 2017
Advocates Protest Rollback in Caltrain Bike Capacity
BIKES ONBoard is trying to put the brakes on Caltrain's plans to reduce the number of bike spaces on its trains
September 14, 2017
Open Thread: Should Taxpayers Compensate Businesses for Construction Losses?
The Mayor and at least three members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are working on proposals to offer financial compensation to merchants impacted by city projects, notably those in Chinatown near the Central Subway construction.
September 8, 2017
BART to Close Lake Merritt Station for Labor Day Weekend Maintenance
Count on an extra twenty to forty minutes for your trip if you plan to travel on BART between West Oakland and Fruitvale, or between 19th Street and Fruitvale, this Labor Day weekend. "That's our advice to riders," said Assistant General Manager for Operations Paul Oversier at a BART press conference this morning in Oakland. He said with a planned bus bridge, it should really only add twenty minutes to a typical trip, but he cautioned people connecting to flights to add extra time. "The forty minutes is if you're flying from Oakland or SFO." He added that BART will run more frequent train service than normal between SF and Oakland.
August 30, 2017
SMART Train Official Launch
Some 20 people crowded onto the San Rafael train station platform this morning, waiting for the 11:29 SMART train heading north towards Santa Rosa. But they were in for a disappointment--the first train wasn't actually going to leave until 2:29 p.m. The platform was a chorus of groans and grumbles as word got around that "Full [emphasis added] train service begins Friday, August 25, 2017," which the SMART train operators announced far and wide, wasn't completely accurate.
August 25, 2017
Marin Columnist says ‘No Density Needed Here’
The Marin Independent Journal's Dick Spotswood made it clear in his column today that he doesn't support Senate Bill 35 by Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, because it could bring denser housing to Marin's towns and cities.
August 23, 2017
SPUR Talk: The Politics of Transportation Planning
To be a successful transportation planner, you've also got to be a persuasive salesman, said two consultants at a recent SPUR event.
August 22, 2017
California’s Antique Trains
Last week I took the train from Oakland to Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, I transferred to a bus to get to Los Angeles.
August 21, 2017
Dumbarton Study Outreach Begins Tonight
The San Mateo Transit District (SamTrans) released its report today on improving transportation links across the Dumbarton bridge and right of way. The agency will be soliciting public comment on the document--which runs 267 pages--over the next couple of months. The study proposes phased implementations of improved bus services and, somewhere down the line, rebuilding either a one-or-two track rail bridge that would eventually permit Caltrain to connect the job centers of the Peninsula with the East Bay. The full report is available for download here.
August 15, 2017
Pick a Bike Rack for Caltrain’s Electric Trains
Caltrain is displaying three different bike racks today until 7 p.m and tomorrow from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 4th and King. They're asking riders to check them out and vote on what kind of bike rack storage they want on the railroad's new electric trains, coming some time in 2019. The options are to either keep bike cars more or less as they are now, where cyclists stack their bikes up along a rail, or adding some bike racks - either with angled parking or suspended from hooks.
August 9, 2017
