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Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?
By Kea Wilson |
A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network — and how to fix them — with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.
Today’s Headlines
By Roger Rudick |
BART Adds Better Filters (EastBayTimes) S.F. Likely to Put Transit Sales Tax on Ballot (SFExaminer) Global Transit Comparisons in 2020 (SmartCitiesWorld) ‘Essential Workers’ No Longer Priority in Vaccine Roll-out (SFGate) Pics of Great Walkway (SFGate) Bay Area No Longer Tech Capital? (SFGate) Mill Valley Opposes Housing (MarinIJ) Martinez Stalls on Housing (EastBayTimes) Not Everyone is […]
What the History of Autonomous Vehicles Can Teach About Our Transportation Future
By Kea Wilson |
Alex Davies new book, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car," offers a glimpse into an industry that will rapidly upend our transportation landscape — and some worry will kill even more vulnerable road users.
Did Governor Newsom Forget About Transit Workers in Vaccine Rollout?
By Melanie Curry |
Until yesterday, transit workers were recognized as essential workers who should be prioritized for vaccinations against COVID. Then state plans changed and transit workers are left wondering why they've been left out.
Commentary: Remove the Wheels from the T Third?
By Roger Rudick |
SFMTA has done almost everything possible to hamstring its own rail service, so why hold back... Or the city could act on its supposed commitment to equity and 'transit first' and fix the T.
Force Blind People to Buy Parking Spaces?
By Patrick Siegman |
The City of Berkeley will be considering this question on Tuesday afternoon, when the City Council is scheduled to once again take up the topic of minimum parking regulations