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How to Stop Giving Parking Developers A Free Ride

By Joe Cortright | Jan 19, 2021 | No Comments

There are good reasons of efficiency and fairness for asking parking lot owners to pay more toward dealing with the costs they impose. A tax on parking could be one way to get it done.

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Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan

By Kea Wilson | Jan 19, 2021 | No Comments

Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Jan 19, 2021 | No Comments

Board to Vote on Market Street Without Protected Bike Lanes (SFExaminer)
BART Police as Social Workers (SFChron1, SFChron2)
Can Work from Home Cure Traffic? (EastBayTimes)
San Jose Transit and COVID Relief (SJSpotlight)
UCSF Pledge to Reduce Traffic (SFExaminer)
Sunset NIMBYs Oppose Affordable Housing (SFChron)
NIMBY ‘Think Tank’ Challenges Housing Math (MercNews)
Why Some Tech Workers are Leaving Bay Area (SFGate)
Bay Area Begging for More Vaccine (SFChron)
Record Temperatures and Winds Increase Fire Risk (SFGate, SFExaminer)
Commentary: Housing Security is Fundamental (SFExaminer)

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Riot police protect the Capitol. Wikimedia Commons

Editorial: The Correlation Between Rail Opponents and the Insurrection

By Roger Rudick | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

Aren't fascists supposed to like trains?

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Bike safety and access must be considered in land use developments that are reviewed by Caltrans - but advocates will still need to make sure that truly means safety, not something like this. Photo by Marven Norman

Caltrans Releases New Safety Guidance for Land Use Projects Statewide: Consider Bikes and Peds

By Melanie Curry | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

Webinar explains and discusses new guidance, which calls for greater attention to bicycle and pedestrian access and safety at new developments

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

BART Expanding “Ambassador” Program (EastBayTimes)
Board Urges 2nd Cop Prosecuted in Oscar Grant Killing (SFExaminer)
Major BART Delay (SFGate)
S.F. to Add 500 More Scooters (SFChron)
Program to Expand Train Service Between Bay Area and Salinas (Herald)
Motorist Kills Pedestrian in Ashland (EastBayTimes)
Biden Unveils Huge Stimulus Plan (SFGate)
COVID Testing Bus Rolls (KRON4)
Why Hasn’t S.F. Opened a Mass Vaccination Site (SFGate)
Online MLK Celebrations (SFExaminer)
Really Dumb PPE (SFGate)

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NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

By Kea Wilson | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.

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Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Intro to the City’

By Jeff Wood | Jan 15, 2021 | No Comments

How do Black and Hispanic kids feel when they go into a Whole Foods? Not welcome, that's for sure. And therein lies a major problem.

An AC Transit bus on a rare, congestion free trip to San Francisco. Photo: MTC

Seamless Bay Area Explains Why MTC Doesn’t Work

By Roger Rudick | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

When it comes to creating a rational fare structure and a more usable transportation system for the Bay Area, MTC an abject failure. Here's why.

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Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

By Kea Wilson | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

BART to Close Richmond Station on Five Weekends (EastBayTimes)
San Mateo Gets Funds for Grade Sep (DailyJournal)
Sonoma Transit to Resume Collecting Fares (CBSLocal)
Palo Alto Park Banning Cars? (SFGate)
$30,000 Raised to Replace Street Trees (SFChron)
Could S.F.’s Chinatown Disappear? (SFGate)
More on Deadly SoMa NYE Crash (MissionLocal)
Plans to Make Hesperian Blvd. Safer (EastBayTimes)
Supes Fight Over Mass Vaccination Sites (SFChron)
Artists to Help in Pandemic (SFChron)
Navigation Centers for Bayview and Polk Gulch (Hoodline)
Commentary: How We’ll Know if Buttigieg Cares About Cities (NextCity)

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HSR construction in Kern County. Photo: CAHSRA

Cheap Federal Loans Key to Infrastructure

By Roger Rudick | Jan 13, 2021 | No Comments

There's $100 billion in low-cost loans that the U.S. DOT can lend tomorrow for infrastructure projects, including rail and transit.

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