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When Old Parking Meter Poles Go, So Often Does Bike Parking

By Matthew Roth | Jul 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

Toronto’s Post and Ring solution for bicycle parking on old parking meter poles. Photo: David Baker When Oakland installed its first pay-and-display parking kiosks in early 2007, parking managers ordered employees to remove the heads of the approximately 5,000 single-space meters they were replacing. Just like other cities transitioning from using single-space parking meters to […]

Things Are Heating Up!

By Chris Carlsson | Jul 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

New Bike Plan! Let’s Get Naked and Celebrate! Critical Mass San Francisco, June 2009. I was glad to see “We Are the World” on the ridiculously inadequate Climate Change bill that finally emerged from the corrupt U.S. Congress. Sadly, the bill could only emerge with the support of a number of mainstream environmental lobbyists in […]

Streetfilms: A Bright Beginning for Phoenix Light Rail

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 18, 2009 | 8 Comments

Everyone knows that Phoenix has a huge sprawl problem. But now transit-oriented development is on the upswing in this Sun Belt metropolis. In December, the Phoenix region opened one of the most ambitious transit projects in recent U.S. history: a 20-mile light rail line with 28 stops serving three cities (Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa). Future […]

Matthew Modine Rallies Support for “Bicycle For A Day”

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jun 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

Matthew Modine founder of the advocacy group "Bicycle for a Day" held a fundraising party for this project recently at Solar One, New York City’s first solar-powered “Green Energy, Arts, and Education Center.” Modine plans to recycle New York City’s junk bikes and distribute them around the world so more people will be able to […]

Expanded Downtown Berkeley BART Bike Station Moving Forward

By Michael Rhodes | Jun 12, 2009 | 4 Comments

Bike station expansion supporters celebrate in the Berkeley City Hall lobby last December following the City Council’s decision to prioritize the bike station expansion. Photo: EBBC Berkeley and East Bay bicycle commuters will have many more bicycle parking options with the opening of a new storefront bicycle station near Downtown Berkeley BART later this year. […]

Revisiting the San Francisco Freeway Revolt

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 11, 2009 | 27 Comments

Editor’s note: This piece was written for Shaping San Francisco and is now incorporated into the new wiki version, your best place to research San Francisco history, FoundSF.org. Protesters march along Embarcadero in early 1960s, stump of Embarcadero Freeway ends behind them at Broadway. Photo courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library In the […]

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