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The next step towards getting the San Francisco to Merced section of California's High-speed Rail project shovel-ready was taken Friday with the completion of a required environmental study of the alignment. This all-important connection between the Central Valley and Silicon Valley has been a "long time coming and this is a big milestone," said Boris Lipkin, Northern California Regional Director.

Planners and government officials need to remember the full costs of traffic violence

The shit show that is Valencia's bike lane continues. But don't worry, Supervisors Mandelman and Ronen promised to "check in" again with SFMTA.

There really isn't anything in development that better serves markets such as Tokyo-Osaka, London-Paris, Boston-New York-Washington, Los Angeles-San Francisco, or dozens of other large city-pairs between 200 and 500 miles apart (and even better if there are smaller cities in-between). And the sooner naive politicians in California and the rest of the U.S. stop getting distracted by magic vac-trains, monorails, battery-powered HSR, and other vaporware alternatives, the better.

A mixed bag of new bike lanes and bollards in the Bay Area

Ryan Russo, Director of Oakland's Department of Transportation, will be leaving this summer.

The city that pioneered Slow Streets at the start of the pandemic is now cancelling the program. Bike East Bay's Dave Campbell talks about future plans for advocacy to preserve some streets and bring back a more robust version of the program in the future.

Hundreds of supporters of a safer Golden Gate Park showed up Saturday morning to celebrate the proverbial silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic--eliminating dangerous pass-through traffic on the eastern portion of J.F.K Drive in Golden Gate Park.

It's temporary, but is indicative of a city bureaucracy that still doesn't quite get it