Depaving Paradise: Grassroots Portland Group Reclaims Parking Lots by Hand
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Depave Portland is cleaning waterways and creating beautiful community spaces — one torn up parking lot at a time.
Traffic Fiasco at Uber Employee Party Highlights Why Ride-Hailing Is Awful for Cities
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The absurdity of the the ride-hailing model, in which everyone who possibly can takes a car to urban destinations, was laid bare during a disastrous Uber employee appreciation party Monday night at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in the dense Hyde Park neighborhood.
Legislative Update: GHGs in Transportation Plans, Bike Lane Guidance, More
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A few bills passed today's Senate Transportation Committee
Today’s Headlines
| | 5 Comments- Transbay Transit Center to Reopen on July 1, But Without Buses (SFChron, SFExaminer, Curbed)
- Current and Dated Plans for a New Bay Crossing (SFGate)
- SF Won’t Find New Muni Head Before Reiskin Leaves (SFExaminer)
- Is Clipper Discount on Muni Equitable? (Hoodline)
- To Fight Climate Change, Everything Must go Electric (KQED)
- Uber, Lyft Vie to Maintain Gig Status for Workers (SFChron)
- Upper Haight Rebuild Continues (Hoodline)
- Mission Development Set for Affordable Housing (SFWeekly, Curbed)
- Condos Coming to Yerba Buena Island (SFChron)
- Oakland Council Waits on A’s Ballpark (SFChron)
- Commentary: Traffic is Only Part of the Problem with Uber/Lyft (SFExaminer)
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Streetsblog Editorial: Don’t Leave Bike Share Customers Spinning
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New branding, lawsuits, pleas from Muni's union--let's think first about transit, bike, and scooter customers who just want to get where they're going
Mark Your Calendars, Buy Your Tickets: The California Bike Summit Is Coming in October
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Three days of talks, biking and walking tours, workshops, discussions, and many opportunities to meet and talk about and promote the importance, beauty, and benefits of biking
Vancouver Builds a Better Bike Lane
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The Pacific Rim city is trying to be an Amsterdam of the Americas. Here's how it's leading.
Award-Winning Bay Area Bridge Will Soon be a Failure
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The California Transportation Foundation chose to recognize a plan that added a third lane of traffic on the eastbound portion of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge last year as its 2018 Freeway/Expressway Project of the Year, at a ceremony in Sacramento last month.
Apparently Los Angeles’s widened Interstate 405 didn’t fail spectacularly enough.
Today’s Headlines
| | 5 Comments- Heat Wave Damaging BART (SFChron)
- Caltrain Slowed by Heat (EastBayTimes)
- Lyft Renames GoBikes (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- More on Lyft Suing Over Bike Share Exclusivity (Curbed)
- More on Where San Francisco Will Add Protected Bike Lanes (SFGate)
- Protected Bike Lanes Make Streets Safer for All Users (BizTimes)
- Fires Burn But So Far Air Quality Okay (Curbed)
- Transbay Transit Center Safe to Reopen (SFChron)
- Roof of San Jose Train Station Failing (KPIX4)
- 50 Years of the Albany Bulb (Curbed)
- Update on the Bay Trail (ABC7)
- Riding a Bike with a Pool Noodle (SFGate)
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Eyes on the Street: West Portal Transit-Only Lane Pilot
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It's early, but so far it's hard to believe city is really trying to make this work, given the meager implementation and total lack of enforcement
MIT Study: High Fares Limit Low-Income Households’ Mobility
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A team of MIT researchers today announced the results of a study that concluded that a discounted transit fare for low-income households could offer significant benefits to those households without necessarily contributing to peak-hour crowding in the MBTA system.
The Magic of Red Painted Bus Lanes
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More cities should be using this inexpensive and effective tool to speed bus service already.