SPUR

Seattle, Toronto, Chicago--many cities have more integrated transit than the Bay Area. How did they do it?

Building a rating system for buildings so buyers know it will be usable after a big earthquake

Advocate, former BART Director, becomes SPUR's New Director of Policy

Streetsblog gets an update on efforts to integrate San Jose's 'Central Park' with the city's various communities

A Q&A with Alicia John-Baptiste

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.

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?

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."

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."