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.
Recent Posts
What Should San Francisco Do to Make the MTA More Accountable?
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Should the MTA Board be appointed or elected? In the lead up to the November 3, 1999 election, more than a year after a massive Muni meltdown and with ridership low, Proposition E was sold as a way to make Muni more accountable and set higher enforceable standards for service. It was also meant to […]
Eyes on the Street: Green EV Stripe Becomes Green “Bike Lane”
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A stenciler was at work in front of San Francisco City Hall recently, painting over the green "showcase" stripe for two plug-in electric vehicles (EV) to reflect what the true green vehicle is: the bike. The bike injunction prevents the city from coloring lanes for bicyclists and this is all we get for now. We […]
Today’s Headlines
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EPA Will Hold Hearing Today on California Waiver to Regulate Emissions (LAT) Muni Bus Crash Leaves Three Injured (KTVU) San Mateo County Residents Apparently Find It Hard to Break the Car Habit (SF Examiner) San Mateo City Leaders Reiterate Support for High Speed Rail (Inside Bay Area) CHSRB: Central Valley HSR to Open in 2015 […]
Caltrain to Update Its Plan to Increase Bike Capacity
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Johnson isn’t fond of the shorter bike racks on Caltrain. It’s been one month since the Caltrain Board of Directors approved a plan to increase bicycle capacity on its trains, a move advocates welcomed but felt didn’t go far enough because it won’t entirely prevent bicyclists from getting bumped. Tomorrow, the Caltrain board is expected […]
Sunday Streets Will Expand to Six Days This Year
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Taking another page from the international movement spawned by Bogotá’s wildly successful Ciclovia, and just two days after Seattle announced its Summer Streets initiative, the official word is out: San Francisco’s Sunday Streets campaign is proposing expanding to six Sundays this year, or one a month for six months, beginning April 26th. This time around, […]
Today’s Headlines
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Sunday Streets Will Expand to Six Sundays in 2009; Dates Announced (SF Examiner) Muni Reports 3.5 Percent Increase in On-Time Performance (SF Gate) Lawsuit Questions Funding Swap in BART Warm Springs Extension (Transbay Blog) Woman Killed in San Jose Hit-and-Run Identified (CBS5) East Bay Legislator Introduces Bill to Increase Bike Capacity on Buses (Cyclelicio.us) Santa […]
Oakland Cyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run Breathing on His Own
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Last week, I wrote about an Oakland cyclist, Brandon Thomas, who was critically injured in a hit-and-run crash on San Pablo near 55th Street. We got an email update on his condition from his mother, Stella Thomas: Good news about Brandon’s condition. Monday they removed all of the breathing tubes in his mouth and replaced […]
Streetsblog is Looking for Interns
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We’ve got a lot of important work to accomplish at Streetsblog San Francisco. As traditional mainstream media continues to suffer, Streetsblog will play a vital role in keeping the citizenry informed and putting the heat on the MTA, the MTC, the Mayor, the Supes and other agencies to dramatically improve conditions for bicyclists, pedestrians and […]
Today’s Headlines
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BART Board Will Not Raise Fares This Year to Balance Its Budget (KCBS) And It’s Questioning the Independent Shooting Investigation (Merc, ABC7) NIMBY Complaints Over Peninsula HSR Line Continue (CHSRB, VTA Watch) Sausalito Launches Study on How to Improve Bike Facilities (Marin IJ) Bike, Pedestrian Improvements Planned on Palo Alto’s Oregon Expressway (Palo Alto Daily) […]
Today’s Headlines
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New York Is Getting a Trial Car-Free Broadway. Why Can’t SF Do This? (Streetsblog) Virgin’s Richard Branson Expresses an Interest in California’s HSR Line (CHSRB) Who’s Competing for High-Speed Rail Grants? (Transport Politic via Streetsblog.net) GM Nosedive Continues Unabated (NYT) BART Board to Get Update on Shooting Investigation and Discuss Budget Cuts (ABC7, CBS5) Boy […]
MTA Begins Its First Automated Count of Bicyclists
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Look closely and you can see the diamond-shaped loops containing an automated bicycle counter on Fell Street between Scott and Divisadero. Accurate bicycle and pedestrian counts are too often neglected by traffic engineers but the MTA has begun experimenting with technology that will eventually allow its engineers to gather the most comprehensive data of bicyclists […]
What’s Next for the TEP?
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Can the TEP transform Muni, dramatically improving its reliability and on-time performance? Bashing Muni, an agency that has been historically underfunded, is a San Francisco pastime. Riders are used to break downs, delays and general unreliability. Could all that be about to change? After an arduous process of gathering ridership data, community input, and considering […]