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In East Palo Alto, Meager Bike/Ped Funding Leads to Half-Baked Safety Fixes

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 5, 2012 | No Comments

East Palo Alto was recently awarded $5 million to build a freeway off-ramp designed a decade ago that even the city’s traffic engineer admits is no longer needed because traffic volumes are down. But as part of the project, the north section of the University Avenue overpass — a treacherous but often necessary route for […]

Muni’s 76x-Marin Headlands Express Service Begins This Weekend

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 16, 2012 | 18 Comments

The 76-Marin Headlands, a lightly-used route that has the lowest on-time performance of any Muni line, will be converted into a new route starting tomorrow that is expected to improve reliability, run more frequently, and better serve popular destinations. The revamped line, dubbed the 76x-Marin Headlands Express, will also run on Saturdays in addition to […]

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To Become a Great Biking City, SF Needs to Stop Crawling and Start Running

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 9, 2012 | 12 Comments

Our Streetfilm from 2010 documented the experience of North American transportation officials and advocates in Copenhagen during the latest Velo-City conference. San Francisco doesn’t have to “reinvent the wheel” to become a bike-friendly place — the city need look no further than peers like Copenhagen, widely considered one of the world’s best cycling cities. So […]

Remembering Ellen Fletcher, Palo Alto’s Pioneer Bicycle Advocate

By Richard Masoner | Nov 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

Cross-posted from Cyclelicious. Holocaust survivor, PTA mom, city council member, and bike advocate Ellen Fletcher succumbed yesterday at age 83 to lung cancer at her Palo Alto home. Ellen escaped Berlin as a Jewish child on the Kindertransport trains and spent her teen years as a refugee in World War II London, where she biked to her […]

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First-Ever Sunday Streets Event Transforms Downtown Berkeley

By John Hamilton | Nov 8, 2012 | No Comments

Some 40,000 people flooded downtown Berkeley on a brilliantly sunny day in October, as the city became the latest in the San Francisco Bay Area to host a “Sunday Streets” event. Organizers closed 17 blocks of Berkeley’s Shattuck Avenue to cars––and opened them to pretty much everything else. Cyclists pedaled, hula hoops turned, children frolicked, […]

“Browndoggle”? Efforts to Use HSR as Cudgel Against CA Dems Fizzle

By Damien Newton | Nov 8, 2012 | No Comments

“The Browndoggle.” Opponents of Governor Jerry Brown and the California Democratic Party have been slamming the California High Speed Rail Authority for years. The political strategy seemed to be working. Four years after voters approved a tax increase to fund a segment of what was promised to be a high speed train connecting Sacramento to […]

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