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The scene in SoMa yesterday afternoon, May 28. Photo: Parker Day

Gridlock Returns to SoMa

By Roger Rudick | May 29, 2020 | No Comments

While the CDC advises more single-occupancy driving, it's painfully obvious why that won't work in San Francisco

Source: Ketut Subiyanto/Creative Commons.

Feds Seek Incentives to Encourage Driving (Which Will Accelerate the Other Pandemic — Traffic Violence)

By Kea Wilson | May 29, 2020 | No Comments

Accelerating our *other* global traffic crisis — traffic violence — isn't the answer to stopping the spread of COVID-19.

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Source: Jimmy Emerson via Creative Commons.

Congestion Pricing Can Be Built For Equity

By Kea Wilson | May 29, 2020 | No Comments

City leaders can bust myths about congestion pricing in the public consciousness — and implement road pricing that makes entire transportation networks more equitable, rather than less, a new study reveals.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | May 29, 2020 | No Comments

BART Director Questions ‘Welcome Back’ Plan (SFGate)
BART’s Financial Future Balanced but Precarious (SFChron)
SFMTA Planning for City’s Reopening (SFChron)
More on Post-Pandemic Transit (FastCompany)
City Mask Requirements Increased (SFGate, MissionLocal, NBCBayArea)
MTC Delays Housing Bond Measure (MarinIJ)
Planning Greenlights Balboa Development (SFExaminer)
Pandemic Casts Shadow on Hub Development (SFChron)
Upper Haight Tent Village to Open (Hoodline)
Courtney Brousseau’s Killing and Spike in Gang Violence (MissionLocal)
Newsom’s Environmental Cuts (SFChron)
When Freight Trains Ran Through the Mission (MissionLocal)

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Talking Headways Podcast: Portland’s ‘Rose Lanes’ Busways

By Jeff Wood | May 28, 2020 | No Comments

April Bertelsen of the Portland Bureau of Transportation talks about the Rose Lanes project, which are transit priority treatments that aim to get buses and streetcars out of traffic.

Q&A with Oakland DOT’s Warren Logan

By Courtney Cobbs | May 28, 2020 | No Comments

Reflections on pursuing racial equity within a mobility framework

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | May 28, 2020 | No Comments

Is BART Running Out of Money? (SFChron)
BART’s Welcome Back/Recovery Plan (SFGate, SFChron)
SFMTA’s Data Driven Recovery (MassTransit)
California is Opening too Quickly (SFExaminer)
Still no ‘Open Streets’ in the Tenderloin (Hoodline)
Neighbors Suing over Stanyan Street Camping Site (SFExaminer)
City College May Leave Fort Mason (SFExaminer)
Napa Wants ‘Slow Streets’ (NapaValleyRegister)
The Best Bike Helmet (SFGate)
Commentary: Rebuild Japantown’s Peace Plaza (SFExaminer)
Commentary: Stop Taking Down Street Trees (SFExaminer)
Commentary: Transit Use and COVID Rates Don’t Correlate (HonoluluCivilBeat)

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Illustration of what Hawthorne could look like with better infrastructure. Scott Mason.

How to Get Skeptical Business Owners On Board With Protected Bike Lanes

By Jonathan Maus | May 27, 2020 | No Comments

Small business owners are often resistant to the idea of removing parking to install better bikeways — but this Portland advocate found a way to persuade them.

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