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Noah Budnick Named SF Bicycle Coalition’s New Executive Director

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 3, 2014 | 15 Comments

Noah Budnick, an accomplished advocate for safe streets and effective transit in New York City, has been named the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s new executive director and will succeed Leah Shahum, who will step down after 12 years leading the organization. Budnick has built a strong national reputation among livable streets advocates in his 14 […]

Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Partially Back in Oakland’s Telegraph Ave Plan

By Melanie Curry | Nov 26, 2014 | 16 Comments

If all goes according to plan, Oakland could get its first parking-protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue next spring. The final draft of the Telegraph plan was released this week, and previously-dropped parking-protected bike lanes were re-introduced in downtown Oakland, between 20th and 29th streets. Buffered bike lanes are planned on the block south of […]

Court: Environmental Review for San Diego’s Highway-Happy Plan Inadequate

By Melanie Curry | Nov 25, 2014 | No Comments

The California Court of Appeals yesterday confirmed a lower court ruling that the environmental impact report (EIR) for San Diego’s long-range regional transportation plan was inadequate. The EIR, said the court, underplayed the impact of the emissions that would result from its highway-building, sprawl-inducing plan. SANDAG approved its regional transportation plan in October 2011. It […]

VTA Cuts Alum Rock and Santa Clara BART Stations From Funding Plans

By Andrew Boone | Nov 18, 2014 | 46 Comments

Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) officials announced on October 6 that they would not seek federal funds in 2015 to construct Alum Rock and Santa Clara BART stations planned as part of the transit system’s extension through downtown San Jose. The move sparked an outcry from neighborhood leaders and elected officials, who have worked in community […]

Voters Back Downtown Growth in San Bruno and Menlo Park

By Andrew Boone | Nov 7, 2014 | 5 Comments

Tuesday’s election saw large majorities of San Bruno and Menlo Park voters approve plans for substantial new downtown development. The plans could potentially transform both downtowns by bringing several thousand more workers and residents within walking distance of the two Peninsula cities’ Caltrain stations, both improving transit ridership and making the downtowns livelier, more livable […]

Halloween: A Lot Less Scary If Drivers and Roads Were Safer

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2014 | No Comments

ICYMI: We’re helping children be seen on #Halloween by lending them reflective vests! Details: http://t.co/FmEPHvc43G pic.twitter.com/AggiFilfDn — MD State Highway Adm (@MDSHA) October 22, 2014 Halloween is fun because we get to be afraid of things that we know aren’t really scary. But for little trick or treaters in the United States, the danger posed […]

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