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Republicans Line Up to Oppose Obama’s Transportation Proposal
The critical multi-year transportation bill, which lawmakers have sidelined since last summer as they've quarreled about how to pay for it, looks to be back on the agenda after President Obama's pugnacious Labor Day speech, in which he called on Congress to ramp up investment in transportation. The broad outline of Obama's plan calls for rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, constructing 4,000 miles of rail, and rehabilitating 150 miles of runway over the next six years.
September 8, 2010
PERB Denies TWU Request for Injunction Stopping Muni Service Restorations
The California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) this afternoon denied a request from the Muni operators union seeking an injunction blocking service restorations that went into effect Saturday. The decision came just hours after SFMTA Chief Nat Ford told the agency's board of directors the restorations have been a success.
September 7, 2010
Excitement at Transbay Event, But Federal Transportation Bill Uncertain
Though most of the California political class celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Transbay Transit Center with U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood in San Francisco yesterday, significant questions remain for funding a national high-speed rail network through the federal transportation act.
August 12, 2010
Supes Muni Reform Measure Nixed as Chiu Strikes Deal with Mayor
Fearing a potential defeat by voters on a crowded November ballot, and saying he wants to see faster reform at the SFMTA, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu announced a compromise with Mayor Gavin Newsom late Tuesday night before casting the swing vote against a Muni charter amendment he had originally co-sponsored with three of his colleagues.
July 28, 2010
Environmentalists, Transpo Reformers Brace for Scaled-Back Energy Bill
"We know we don’t have the votes."
July 27, 2010
Jack Fleck on Market Street, Muni, Global Warming and Traffic
What does San Francisco's retired top traffic engineer think about Market Street, Muni and global warming? We sat down with Jack Fleck recently for an extended interview. The 62-year-old retired last week after more than 25 years with the former Department of Parking and Traffic and the current San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).
July 8, 2010
Elsbernd Muni Reform Measure Has Money and Signatures to Spare
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd triumphantly delivered eighteen Bankers Boxes full of signatures to the Department of Elections on Thursday, signifying the successful completion of the first phase of a Muni reform campaign that many had claimed was politically impossible.
July 2, 2010
Traffic Engineer Jack Fleck Looks Back at 25 Years of Shaping SF Streets
Editor's note: This is the first of a three-part series on the past, present and future of traffic engineering in San Francisco.
July 1, 2010
Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition who is on sabbatical in Europe.
June 23, 2010
To Address Demand for Oil, We Must Focus on Transportation
Editor's
note: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) sent us this commentary on the
the BP oil spill, climate change and the need for transportation
reform.
June 21, 2010