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If you want proof that the Bay Area needs a network manager, try to ride the Treasure Island ferry.

There are about two parking spots for every resident of the Bay Area, or 2.4 for every car.

Last week in a 3-2 vote, the San Mateo City Council voted to move forward with a painted bike-lanes and a pair of bicycle boulevards that will provide needed bicycle lane connections throughout the North Central community and remove over 200 spaces of on-street parking.

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.