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Muni Rider Profile: Pamela Moye Revisits the 28-19th Avenue

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 25, 2010 | 6 Comments

Pamela Moye rides the 28-19th Avenue. Photo: Michael Rhodes Riding the 28-19th Avenue northbound towards the Richmond on a recent weekday afternoon, Pamela Moye has almost nothing but good things to say about Muni. Aside from the occasional long wait for an M-Ocean View train, Moye, a schoolteacher, said her experience with Muni has been […]

StreetUtopia North Beach

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

View southeast across North Beach from Russian Hill. StreetUtopia is a new community organizing effort centered in North Beach. Launched by Hank Hyena and Phil Millenbah at an inaugural event in early January, they drew upwards of 150 people to an empty historic storefront at 1 Columbus Avenue, where they showed Streetfilms, had a small […]

Bicycling Up 8.5 Percent in SF Last Year, 53 Percent Increase from 2006

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 22, 2010 | 12 Comments

San Francisco Citywide Bicycle Counts (2006-09). Image courtesy SFMTA. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has released its 2009 Bicycle Count Report (PDF), which shows an 8.5 percent increase in the number of cyclists on the streets last year compared to 2008, and a 53 percent increase since 2006. That marks the third consecutive year […]

Feds on New Miami HOT Lanes: Good for Transit

By Elana Schor | Jan 22, 2010 | 6 Comments

Miami’s conversion of HOV lane space to new high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes as part of the federal Urban Partnership program, which also prompted New York City’s congestion pricing push, is cutting travel times for local transit and boosting use — but overall bus ridership in the corridor has stayed static, according to a new report […]

Sign on, Root in, Branch Out

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 21, 2010 | 22 Comments

Imagine the Wiggle as fully green bikeway, with agriculture and an open creek instead of cars! He skirted Market Pond and made his way up to the Wiggle. Passing through a green arching gate he rolled along next to a long aging wall that had seen better days. On the other side of the wall […]

Guanajuato: A City for Flaneurs and Loiterers!

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

2010 is a big year for Mexico! I just completed another visit to Mexico, once again starting in Guadalajara, but then doing a 9-day driving trip through the heart of the country. This new year is Mexico’s bicentennial and centennial (independence from Spain and the revolution, respectively), and signs denoting the historic routes of the […]

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