Bryan Goebel
Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
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Bike to Work Day Draws Record Crowds of Cyclists
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Leah Shahum addresses hundreds in the crowd at City Hall San Francisco’s annual Bike to Work Day drew a record 200,000 bicyclists this morning, according to early estimates, making it the most successful bike to work day since it began 15 years ago. Crowds of cyclists took advantage of the SFBC Energizer Stations to get […]
Can the Board of Supes Still Force a Better MTA Budget?
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Budget and Finance Committee file photo by Bryan Goebel The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee voted for a second time Wednesday to reject the MTA budget and send it back to the full Board. It followed a narrow vote by the full Board Tuesday to table BOS Prez David Chiu’s original rejection motion, […]
Get Your Free Bike to Work Day Portrait Taken by the Pros
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I’d like to give a plug to our bicycle-riding friends at Orange Photography, who are graciously offering free portraits of bicyclists for Bike to Work Day tomorrow: We’re always psyched about it since 80 percent of our studio bikes or takes alternate forms of transit and we’re right down the street from Mike’s Bikes too. […]
Supervisors Vote 6-5 Against Rejecting MTA Budget
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BOS Prez David Chiu. Photo by Bryan Goebel BOS Prez David Chiu gave quite a performance at last week’s Budget and Finance Committee meeting, peppering MTA Chief Nat Ford with a series of hard-hitting questions about the agency’s unpopular budget, and lining up the six necessary votes to reject the spending plan. Yesterday, though, at […]
Today’s Headlines
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Board of Supes Votes Not to Reject Muni Budget After All (SF Gate, SF Examiner, SFBG, SF Appeal) Paul Hogarth’s Take on Beyond Chron: "Fear of Newsom Petulance Causes Bad Muni Budget" Muni Metro to Get New Fare Gates (SF Gate) "Safe Streets" Bill Dies in State Legislature (Streetsblog LA) Gearing up for Bike to […]
A Livable Street in the Making: 17th Street Ped Plaza Nearly Complete
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DPW worker painting around an unused track in the plaza. Bollards in the background on the right and left will be filled with gravel and soil and will have plants growing out of them. Photo: Matthew Roth In less than 24 hours, city officials, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, will be standing in a new pedestrian […]
Newsom Speaks Out on MTA Budget; Vote to Reject Hinges on Maxwell
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Mayor Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom (left) at a ceremony Monday honoring teachers. Newsom spoke to reporters about the MTA budget after the event. On the eve of a possible rejection of the MTA’s budget by the Board of Supervisors over widely unpopular fare hikes and service cuts, Mayor Gavin Newsom told reporters […]
Today’s Headlines
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Chronicle Coverage of 17th Street Pedestrian Plaza (SF Gate) SF Appeal: "MTA Sting Nets Disabled Parking Abusers" SF Fire Investigators Probe Series of Car Torchings (SF Gate, SFist) Americans Still See Cars as #1 Household Necessity (Toll Roads News via Planetizen) Build More Parking, Says Parking Lobby (AP) Plans for New Southern Santa Clara County […]
Follow Streetsblog San Francisco on Twitter!
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Photo courtesy of Twitter. For the first time since our launch in January, we covered a news event last week on Twitter, offering tweets from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee meeting, and it seemed to be quite a hit with our followers on Twitter. We’ll be doing that more often, […]
Eyes on the Street: It’s Beginning to Look Like… a Livable Street!
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Photo by Nick Perry. New sign at the corner of 17th Street and Noe. Photos by Bryan Goebel. A portion of 17th Street in the Castro is being closed to cars at Market this weekend, marking the beginning of San Francisco’s first trial street closure. The two DPT workers installing the new signs late this […]
Caltrain Staff Floats Idea to Charge Bicyclists Extra to Ride Trains
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Flickr photo: richardmasoner It’s bad enough Caltrain already has an image of being unfriendly to bicyclists, despite its efforts to prevent bumps on the system by boosting bicycle capacity on its trains, now comes this word: Staff is toying with the idea of making bicyclists pay a $1 surcharge that would raise an estimated $800,000. […]
Supes Committee Votes to Recommend Rejection of MTA Budget
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Supervisor David Campos with BOS Prez David Chiu and Supervisor Bevan Dufty in background at yesterday’s Budget and Finance Committee meeting. Photos by Bryan Goebel. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee voted 4-1, with Supervisor Carmen Chu dissenting, to recommend the rejection of the MTA’s $778 million budget following a marathon […]