Making the Most of the BART Extension
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Comments on Playbook for Downtown San Jose are due this Friday
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about bike injunction
Black advocates call for expanding Chicago’s scooter program with a focus on equity
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Today marked the end of our city’s four-month e-scooter pilot on the West and Northwest sides, and the ten vendors are required to remove all of their vehicles, a total of 2,500, from the public way or risk having them impounded by the city. The Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Affairs and the Chicago Department of Transportation, which oversaw the test, announced today that the city is now launching “a wide-ranging and holistic evaluation” to decide whether the program should be expanded citywide and made permanent.
New App Helps to Slow Down Speeders
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Drivers are reckless and distracted — but soon there'll be an app that helps them realize that.
SPEED CAMERAS WORK: Drivers Causing Fewer Collisions
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Crashes are down 10 percent, possibly became drivers are starting to change their behavior now that there are more cameras, and they're operating eight more hours per day.
Today’s Headlines
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Better Market Street is Start of Driving Out Cars (SFExaminer) More on Better Market Street (SFChron, SFExaminer, SFWeekly) More on Scooter Deployment (SFChron, Hoodline) The Death of Private Cars was Greatly Exaggerated (Wired) Smart Phones to Pay for BART (SFGate) Proposal to Give BART Riders Priority at Airport Security Lines (ABC7) SMART Train Board to […]
OUT, DAMN CARS! ‘Better Market Street’ Approved!
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Better Market Street project approved unanimously. Push is on to launch more car-free projects
Los Angeles Might Give Transit Signal Preemption
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Los Angeles look at maybe, just maybe, giving transit priority over private cars
Urban Transit Systems are Adding Riders (Mostly)
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You asked for a deep dive on transit ridership numbers — you got it!
Less Driving, More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions
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People need to live and work radically differently if the United States can even hope to get halfway towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050, but a new paper released last month says the most important change would come in how we get around.
This Week: Better Market Street, All Weather Biking, Berkeley Bike & Ped Vote
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday/today! Better Market Street Pre-Vote Rally Advocates for safe streets from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Walk San Francisco and elsewhere will rally on the steps of City Hall with local decision makers before the all-important vote of the SFMTA Board of Directors on the ‘Better […]