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Daniel Lurie Adds SPUR Head to His Team
Alicia John-Baptiste will lead the mayor-elect's office of Infrastructure, Climate and Mobility. Here's more about her, plus reactions from advocates
January 7, 2025
SPUR Talk: The Challenge of Integrating Transit
Seattle, Toronto, Chicago--many cities have more integrated transit than the Bay Area. How did they do it?
November 3, 2021
SPUR Talk: Building Resilient Cities
Building a rating system for buildings so buyers know it will be usable after a big earthquake
September 25, 2019
A Q&A With Nick Josefowitz
Advocate, former BART Director, becomes SPUR's New Director of Policy
August 28, 2019
Touring the Guadalupe River Trail
Streetsblog gets an update on efforts to integrate San Jose's 'Central Park' with the city's various communities
August 12, 2019
SPUR Talk: Reconnecting Oakland to its Waterfront
Stand in downtown Oakland and look around and it can be easy to forget it's a coastal city. That's because Interstate 880 cuts a giant, uninviting swath between the city center and the waterfront at Jack London Square.
May 25, 2017
Big Data for Safer Streets
Motorists and business owners claim that the controversial 14 Mission Rapid project, with its "red carpet" transit lanes, has made traffic worse and more dangerous. But what if the real-time data proves otherwise?
April 4, 2017
SPUR Talk: Dutch Lessons on Sea Level Rise and the Built Environment
If San Francisco doesn't want to end up flooded, it better learn from the Dutch. That was the theme of a panel discussion held yesterday afternoon at the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)'s downtown location. "Holland has a culture of urgency. Compared to our experiences here, they’re not hung up about collective action," said Tom Leader with TLS Landscape Architecture. "They just make things happen."
March 22, 2017
SPUR Talk: Bike-Share and the Transportation Revolution
Last night, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) and Young Professionals in Transportation hosted a talk and discussion about bike-share and the transportation changes taking place in our cities. The event, which was held at SPUR's Oakland location, featured Jay Walder, the CEO of Motivate. One of many items that stood out: Walder said that Bay Area Bike Share, which Motivate operates, will definitely work with the Clipper card. "We will have it integrated into the transit system," said Walder. "It should be as simple as using BART or Muni or any other part that uses Clipper."
March 15, 2017