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SFMTA Starts West Portal Outreach

Agency presents plans to block traffic from crossing in front of the train station

April 22, 2024

Eyes on the Street: San Francisco Joins the Sidewalk-Level Bike Lane Club

Alameda, Fremont, Oakland—San Francisco finally gets one too

April 9, 2024

SFMTA and Mayor Refuse to Support Citywide Ban on ‘Right on Red’

City to get "no turn on red" signs for 200 intersections, rather than an outright ban

April 4, 2024

Oakland’s New DOT Chief

Josh Rowan, formerly head of Atlanta's DOT, coming to Oakland

April 2, 2024

Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput

No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken

March 27, 2024

St. Charles Avenue Finally Gets its Curb Cut

It took years to get a simple curb cut done on a bike route between SF State and Daly City BART. It just shouldn't be this hard.

March 26, 2024

Commentary: The West Portal Tragedy and the Unfathomable Cost of Motordom

Unrestricted driving, wide forgiving roads, little to no physical infrastructure to force speed reductions, and no real police enforcement—this is the predictable and inevitable result

March 20, 2024

Lawmakers Launch Bill They Hope Will Make Bay Area Transit Awesome

But many advocates are already concerned it could provide funding for more highways. And will it really provide the seamless and equitable transit system everyone says they want?

March 18, 2024

Superhero of Safer 17th

Streetsblog talks with Peter Belden, an independent advocate who helped lead the effort for a safer 17th

March 14, 2024