Matthew Roth
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San Francisco’s Unbuilt Freeway Network Revisited
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Some of San Francisco’s unbuilt freeways Hunter College student and photographer Andrew Lynch recently posted Google Map mashups of the unbuilt freeways that made up many of the master plans in cities around the country in the 1950s and 1960s. San Francisco, New York City, and Boston avoided the worst of automobility, while the map […]
Today’s Headlines
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BART Will Join Translink Later This Summer (SF Gate) Booming Bicycle Traffic to Sausalito Has Some Residents Upset (SF Gate) Survey Says Californians Willing to Limit Flights for High Speed Rail (Examiner) 511.org Offers Up to $100 for Driving in HOV Lanes (CC Times) Contra Costa Times Looks at Mileage Tax Debate ‘Back Seat Driver’ […]
BART Board Will Soon Debate Raising Parking Fees
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Raising the price of parking is a contentious issue anywhere, but it’s particularly divisive for the BART Board of Directors, who may be debating a proposal from their finance committee as soon as next Thursday’s board meeting to raise parking fees to mitigate their soaring budget deficit. "Free parking is not free for BART," said […]
Sacramento to Debate How to Allocate Stimulus Funds this Week
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TransForm tells Streetsblog San Francisco that legislators in Sacramento have prepared draft legislation for how the state should spend federal stimulus money on transportation projects and that there is important advocacy that needs to be done to improve it. AB X3 20 will be introduced imminently and debated this week. TransForm’s action alert calls on […]
DOT and HUD: Transportation and Land-Use Planning Should Prioritize TOD
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Sacramento sprawl swallowing farm land It’s a good day to talk about the costs of car ownership on individuals and families and the need to integrate transportation and land use planning regionally. The New York Times Wheels blog today has posted a piece that tries to quantify the costs of car ownership and it is […]
The Troubling Discord Between Transbay and High Speed Rail Authorities
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Rendering of the Transbay Terminal with one-level train box and mezzanine Let’s hope California rail passengers can look back on the drama playing out between the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) and the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) as a small hiccup on the way to building the nation’s preeminent rail network into one […]
US DOT Secretary LaHood Gives Love to Bikes and Streetsblog
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US DOT Secretary Ray LaHood made cyclists smile at the National Bike Summit when he pledged to be a "full partner" with them through his term as head of the agency. Not content with good rhetoric at a gala event, he wrote about it on his official Welcome to the Fast Lane blog. I have […]
Today’s Headlines
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Op-Ed in Chronicle Supporting Congestion Pricing in San Francisco (SF Gate) The TA Will Consider Releasing Prop K Funds for Transbay Terminal (Examiner) Muni Crash with 18-Wheeler on T-3rd Sent Seven to Hospital Last Night (Examiner) (SF Gate) MTC Revises Revenue Projections, Delays Vote on RTP (Merc) Sacramento Mayor KJ Upset His City Not on […]
The Clamor for a Better Market Street Grows Louder
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A rendering of the 1900 unit Trinity Plaza development at Market and 8th Street As we reported last week, several city agencies have begun to look at ways to improve Market Street when it is repaved, including an inter-agency process spearheaded by DPW and the Planning Department. Yet, we’ve still heard nothing from Mayor Gavin […]
Planning Unveils Street Design Toolkit in the Mission
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Flexible parking during Park(ing) Day in front of Ritual Coffee on Valencia Street At a well-attended community workshop in the Women’s Center auditorium on Wednesday night, the Planning Department presented the Mission Streetscape Plan (MSP), a set of tools for transforming streets in the Mission (large PDF). Some of the proposed concepts are tried and […]