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Bike Tour Taps San Francisco’s Water Innovations

By Matt Baume | | 4 Comments
Blair Randall shows off the rain barrels. Photo: Matt Baume When most San Franciscans turn on a faucet, they’ll see water that’s traveled as far as two hundred miles from Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. But that’s not the case for some locally-minded gardeners, for whom careful water stewardship is as important as […]

More Space for Parking Than Offices at Boston-Area TOD

By Noah Kazis | | No Comments
A proposal to build new office and residential space near the end of Boston’s Green Line will also triple the amount of parking at the station. Photo: HelveticaFanatic/Flickr Another city, another would-be transit-oriented development undermined by a glut of parking. This time it’s Newton, Massachusetts, where plans are underway to build 420,000 square feet of […]

Of Cable Cars and Whales

By Chris Carlsson | | 12 Comments
A Clay Street Hill Railroad dummy and traile cable car atop Nob Hill, c. 1875. The invention of cable cars in 1873 by Andrew Hallidie is an oft-told saga, with a perhaps apocryphal point of origin on a rainy winter day in 1869 when he saw a team of horses pulling a horsecar up a […]
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Streetfilms: Thousands Play in Oakland’s Streets at First-Ever ‘Oaklavia’

By Janel Sterbentz and John Hamilton | | No Comments
On Sunday, June 27th, downtown Oakland opened two miles of its streets to fun and activities—zumba dancing, circus arts, BMX bike competitions and performances from local musicians. Walk Oakland Bike Oakland (WOBO) partnered with the East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Oaklandish, Oakland YMCA, Cycles of Change, and other civic organizations to create the East Bay’s first […]
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