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Supervisor Mar Wants to Study How Lower Speed Limits Could Improve SF
Supervisor Eric Mar requested a city study last week about how lower speed limits could benefit San Francisco. Although lowering speed limits without implementing physical traffic calming measures isn't a panacea for safer streets, the measure does hold promise as a first step toward saving lives and implementing Vision Zero. San Francisco would follow in the footsteps of New York City, Paris, and the United Kingdom in looking at major speed limit reductions.
July 1, 2014
Mayor Lee’s Car Found Parked in Muni Bus Stop
Mayor Ed Lee's Chevy Volt was recently seen parked in a Muni bus stop, while he went to eat at La Corneta Taqueria on Diamond Street in Glen Park.
June 27, 2014
Supes Reject Appeal for CEQA Review of Sunday Parking Meter Repeal
The Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 yesterday to reject an appeal, filed by sustainable transportation advocates, to require environmental review of the SFMTA's repeal of Sunday parking meters. Although the vote was not on the merits of Sunday parking metering, but rather whether the SFMTA violated the California Environmental Quality Act in repealing it, the hearing shed some more light on the political stances of some supervisors.
June 18, 2014
SFFD OKs Narrower Streets in Candlestick Point Development
The SF Fire Department will allow many of the new streets built in the Candlestick Point development to remain narrower than 26 feet under a compromise with street safety advocates. SFFD had insisted at the 11th hour that all new city streets must have at least 26 feet of clear roadway for firefighters to set up fire trucks and reach the tops of taller buildings, even though wider roads are known to increase driving speeds and traffic crashes.
June 17, 2014
Supes, Mayor Lee Agree to Push Vehicle License Fee in 2016
The ballot measure to restore the vehicle license fee has been postponed until 2016, under an agreement reached between Mayor Ed Lee and supervisors.
June 10, 2014
With or Without Mayor Lee, Wiener and Advocates Push to Keep VLF Alive
Just because Mayor Ed Lee withdrew his support for restoring the vehicle license fee doesn't mean it's dead. Sustainable transportation advocates are building a campaign to get the measure approved at the ballot this November with the help of Supervisor Scott Wiener, who may introduce the measure at the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, which is the legislative deadline to do so.
June 6, 2014
Mayor Lee Appoints Planning Commissioner Gwyneth Borden to SFMTA Board
Gwyneth Borden will fill a year-old vacancy on the SFMTA Board of Directors, Mayor Ed Lee announced today. Borden has sat on the Planning Commission since 2008 and is the executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.
June 5, 2014
Muni’s Absymal Breakdown Rate: One Reason SF Needs a Vehicle License Fee
Muni vehicles break down far more frequently than in other cities, after years of the system being starved of the necessary funding to adequately maintain its fleet of trains and buses.
June 5, 2014
Fell Street Bike Lane Still Popular Among Bike Commuters, Parked Trucks
The more than 1,800 people who use the buffered, curbside bike lane on Fell Street every weekday continue to be faced with a familiar hazard: parked trucks.
June 3, 2014
SFTRU: Mayor Lee Keeps Giving Muni Riders the Short End of the Stick
Reps from the SF Transit Riders Union today said Mayor Ed Lee's recent repeal of Sunday parking meters and abandonment of the vehicle license fee add up to an attack on transit riders.
June 3, 2014