Matthew Roth
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Helmet on Your Head or Egg on Your Face
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Matthew Modine doesn’t don certain ritual headgear while he rides Matthew Modine has been getting a lot of negative attention recently for his stance on wearing a helmet while he cycles: i.e., he doesn’t wear a helmet while he cycles (it would have to be a large helmet to fit that copious coif). A profile […]
EPA Asks For Bike To Work Feedback, Inhabitat Gives Away a Bike
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We get a lot of Greenversations press releases over the transom and most go right to the trash, in no small part because "Greenversations" is one of the more odious portmanteaus a government agency or corporation has yet proffered. Not quite as annoying as the idea that Ray LaHood’s multi-modal transportation blog is called the […]
Bicycle Rides Aplenty This Weekend
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David Baker leading the AIA Architectural Gems San Francisco Bike Tour. Photo: jordanfischer In case you hadn’t already noticed from reading Today’s Headlines, there are a bunch of good bicycle rides this weekend, two of which I want to highlight here. For a good list of rides check out SFBC’s Chain of Events. First, Architect, […]
Assembly Passes Law Cracking Down on Disability Parking Permit Abuse
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Confiscated counterfeit and altered placards. Photos: Matthew Roth The fines for illegal use of disability placards and for fabricating fraudulent placards could go as high as $1000 if Assemblymember Fiona Ma’s new bill passes the State Senate and is signed by Governor Schwartzenegger. The bill, which passed in the Assembly near unanimously at 73-3 on […]
Muni Bus-Stop Spacing Analysis Shows 70 Percent of Stops Too Close
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Flickr photo: Octoferret The MTA this afternoon released analysis of bus stop spacing showing what anyone who has been on Muni knows: there are way too many stops too close together (PDF). Overall nearly 70 percent of the 4,000 bus and rail stops in the city don’t adhere to the MTA’s own distance policy, and […]
Ingleside PD Crosswalk Sting Results in Numerous Tickets, Tows
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Lt. Jason Cherniss acts as a decoy in the crosswalk, waiting for drivers to yield, and pointing out those who don’t. Officers behind Lt. Cherniss are lined up to intercept scofflaws . Photos: Matthew Roth Ingleside Station’s new captain, David Lazar, has renewed stings on motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians at intersections and […]
Today’s Headlines
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MTC Proposes Raising Bridge Tolls in 2010 (Examiner) Silicon Valley Shuttles Upsetting Noe Valley Residents (Examiner) 2-Time Cable Car Bell Ringing Champion Oats Wins Again (SF Gate) San Jose City Council Won’t Give Up Car Allowance (Merc) Novato Considers Intersection Improvements After Death of 9-Year Old (Marin IJ) SamTrans Considers Service and Employee Cuts (SM […]
New Ingleside Captain Gets Tough on Drivers Failing to Yield to Peds
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Flickr photo: myelectricsheep The Ingleside Police Station has a new captain and he’s out of the blocks with a very progressive pedestrian safety agenda. Captain David Lazar, who just assumed his post at the Ingleside Station on April 18th, will conduct a sting on motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks at five […]
Gav for Guv Interview This Thursday on Current
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Flickr photo: mayorgavinnewsom One of the good things about Mayor Gavin Newsom’s obsession with putting public discourse online is the opportunity the public has to ask him a lot of questions. In this vein, Current is holding a live online video interview with California gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom about his "green" agenda and they are […]
Packed Mission Sunday Streets Raises the Question, “Why Not Every Week?”
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Voguing for the camera, with proud parents behind. Photos: Matthew Roth Massive crowds came out to the Mission yesterday to enjoy the first of two Sunday Streets events, packing Valencia Street and 24th Street with families, dog walkers, and cyclists of all ages and abilities. Organizers were thrilled with the turnout and seemed only to […]
MTC Deputy Director McMillan Named to #2 Post at FTA
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Photo: MTC The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today named Therese W. McMillan as its Deputy Administrator, the number two job at FTA. McMillan, who has been a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) staff since 1984 and has served as the Commission’s Deputy Executive Director for Policy since 2001, will assume her new post […]
Mission Sunday Streets Will Showcase Merchants and Cultural Centers
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Mission Cultural Center board member Eva Sandoval at a Sunday Streets press conference in the 24th and York Streets mini park in the Mission. Photo: Matthew Roth The first of two Mission Sunday Streets is this weekend, opening up wide swaths of car-free space away from the city’s edges and in busy neighborhood streets where […]