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State Senator Takes on Parking Requirements

By Damien Newton | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Last week, State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) introduced legislation that takes aim at how California’s municipalities think about parking and parking requirements. What SB 518 (PDF) is missing in co-sponsors it makes up for in chutzpah. If enacted, the legislation would require that every municipality in the state earn at least "20 points" in […]

The Nearly Extinct Bipedus Norteamericanus Makes a Comeback

By Matthew Roth | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Anthropologists and transit advocates have long bemoaned the rise of The Sacred Rac, its subsequent worship by the majority of the people of the Asu tribe, and the attendant demise of bipedus norteamericanus, or the common pedestrian. But new evidence appears every day that the once-endangered pedestrian may be seeing a resurgence in urban habitats […]

Workshop Tomorrow on Marin’s Alto Tunnel

By Tom Murphy | Mar 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

Click for a larger image Cycling enthusiasts have long dreamed of reopening the rotting, 125-year-old Alto Tunnel as a key link in a greenway stretching from the Golden Gate Bridge to Cloverdale. Now they may get their chance, as the county’s Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program begins a $225,000 study of three routes between the two […]

A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard

By Matthew Roth | Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Eisenhower signing the 1956 Highway Act Far be it from us to take political sides on Livable Streets issues–you don’t have to be a donkey or an elephant to appreciate pedestrian safety, traffic calming, and quality public space–but why is it that two of the best columns connecting transportation policy reform, land use, and energy […]

Valencia Signals Re-timed to Improve Traffic Flow and Safety

By Janel Sterbentz | Mar 2, 2009 | 10 Comments

As Streetsblog San Francisco reported last month, cities around the world have timed their traffic signals to favor slower moving modes, and now San Francisco has started a trial on one of the busiest bicycle routes in the city, Valencia Street. On Thursday February 19th, the MTA re-timed six traffic signals from 16th to 21st, […]

Sausalito to Study Improving Bike Path

By Tom Murphy | Mar 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

Any cyclist who has dodged cars on the main drag of Sausalito lately will be glad to hear the city has approved a $100,000 to study the safest bike route to the north end of town. The city has hired Alta Planning and Design to recommend options to keep bikes rolling along the two-mile stretch […]

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