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Transit Agencies Need to Get Out of the Fare Collection Business
From nine to nearly noon today, at BART headquarters in Oakland, the agency's Board of Directors and staff had an impassioned discussion about raising fares and parking fees to close projected budget deficits. "Across the country, ridership is down, from four to five percent for rail, and ten percent for buses," explained Grace Crunican, BART's General Manager. "Gas prices are very low and ride shares may be having our lunch."
March 9, 2017
Let’s Talk Seriously About Driverless Trains
Uber, Waymo and others are in the process of developing driverless car technology, while transit systems in the Bay Area continue to rely on one operator in the front of every single train.
March 6, 2017
Safety Changes Explored for 17th and Church
Last night, at the Mission Police Station on Valencia, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) held an open house on making 17th Street, between Church and Sanchez, safer for cyclists. As many Streetsblog readers are aware, the railway tracks and the width of the street make for particularly hazardous conditions for cyclists traveling between the Mission and Castro neighborhoods.
February 23, 2017
SPUR Talk: Safer Walking, Biking and Taking Transit
Want people to walk, bike and use transit? Then it's got to feel safe.
February 15, 2017
Clipper Update and the Potential to Rationalize Fares
Yesterday evening, at the San Francisco Transit Rider's new digs on Folsom Street in downtown, Sara Barz of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Arielle Fleisher, with the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), gave presentations about the move to replace the Clipper fare-collection system with a new generation of technology and opportunities to create a more rational fare system for the 27 transit operators across the Bay Area. Some 30 people attended.
February 14, 2017
Study Makes Compelling Case for Jack London Estuary Bridge
More evidence for the need for an estuary bridge connecting Jack London to western Alameda.
January 31, 2017
Castro Advocates Plan Makeover for Harvey Milk Plaza
Last night, some 50 people attended an open house at the Eureka Valley Recreation Center to discuss an upgrade and redesign of Harvey Milk Plaza adjacent to the Castro Muni Station. "For years and years people have asked 'can’t you do something better with Harvey Milk plaza,'" explained Andrea Aiello, Executive Director of the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District.
January 26, 2017
Wildly Inaccurate NextBus Predictions Continue
NextBus simply isn’t tracking more than half the buses on the streets.
January 13, 2017
SF Prof Studies Copenhagen’s Bike Infrastructure
Jason Henderson is a geography professor at San Francisco State, writer of the book Street Fight: The Struggle over Urban Mobility in San Francisco, co-author of Low Car(Bon) Communities: Inspiring Car-Free and Car-Lite Urban Futures, and a Streetsblog contributor.
January 10, 2017
Geary Bus Rapid Transit Study Approved by County Transportation Authority
Yesterday evening at San Francisco City Hall, the County Transportation Authority Board unanimously approved the Geary Bus Rapid Transit project's design and Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The approval brings the $300 million project, which has been a decade in the making, one step closer to fruition.
January 6, 2017
