Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Active Transportation

If You’re Requiring Parking by Transit Stations, You’re Doing It Wrong

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 29, 2016 | No Comments

The city of Waterloo, Ontario, is in the process of building a new 12-mile light rail line called Ion Rapid Transit. Now the most pressing question is how to make it a success. Mike Boos at TriTag says the transit line should have no trouble meeting ridership forecasts, with bus routes along the corridor already carrying nearly as many passengers as initially […]

Five Strategies for Equitable Active Transportation Planning and Advocacy

By Naomi Doerner | Mar 21, 2016 | No Comments

Cross-posted from the Alliance for Biking and Walking. It started as a lively discussion on the Bike Equity Network — a listserv for mobility and equity advocates working within walk/bike advocacy and planning — related to a Washington Post article that examined the notion of bike lanes as symbols of gentrification. The online conversation that […]

#DamienTalks 31 – CalBike’s Jeanie Ward-Waller and a Proposal to Create Bike Rebates

By Damien Newton | Feb 24, 2016 | No Comments

Today, #DamienTalks with Jeanie Ward-Waller, the Streetsie Award-Winning activist with CalBike about a proposal to provide rebates for people purchasing bicycles for their commutes. The Air Resources Board already provides rebates to those purchasing hybrid, low-emission and zero-emission vehicles. So why not provide the same benefit to those purchasing bicycles — the ultimate zero-emission vehicle? […]

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SFMTA Rolls out New Green Bike Lane and Program for Planning Talent

By Roger Rudick | Feb 22, 2016 | 8 Comments

As cyclists who use Page Street know all too well, there’s a tendency for motorists to jam up at the intersection with Octavia as they head to 101. And despite improvements and some traffic calming measures, it still turns into a bit of a mash up around the intersection, with cyclists trying to thread through […]

Active Transportation Program 3rd Round: Guidelines, Workshops

By Melanie Curry | Feb 9, 2016 | No Comments

Caltrans has released the draft guidelines [PDF] for the third round of the Active Transportation Program. Ongoing workshops to discuss the guidelines started a week ago and are continuing, with one this Friday, February 12, in Fresno; a last one will be held some time during the week of February 15 in Sacramento. The last […]