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Where is the MTA Board’s Leadership on the Budget Crisis?

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 22, 2009 | 6 Comments

MTA Chair Tom Nolan. Aside from Malcolm Heinicke’s proposal to tax rental cars at SFO — which was apparently shot down by legal staff — no member of the MTA Board of Directors has offered any ideas for generating new revenue, other than toying or saying yay or nay to recommendations presented by staff, to […]

Bayview Merchants Hopeful Sunday Streets Will Bring Business

By Matthew Roth | Apr 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

A block of predominantly female-owned businesses that will participate in Sunday Streets It’s been reported that the Fisherman’s Wharf merchants who vocally opposed Sunday Streets along the Embarcadero last year now proclaim their support for the day and are programming numerous events to coincide with the street closures this Sunday. But merchants in Bayview never […]

The Rear Door Problem With Muni’s New Hybrid Buses

By Tony Vi | Apr 21, 2009 | 34 Comments

Photo by Tony Vi If you’ve ridden any of Muni’s new low-floor hybrids you’ve most likely encountered or witnessed the sometimes challenging task of opening the rear doors. The buses, from Orion Bus Industries, have a fault that prevents them from realizing the full benefits of the low-floor design. What should be a seemingly simple […]

Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”

By Pam MacLean | Apr 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

Bicyclists disembark from the Sausalito ferry. Photo by Tom Murphy Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does […]

California Transit Association Recommends Long-Term Funding Ideas

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 16, 2009 | No Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 The California Transit Association has submitted a list of recommendations (PDF) to the Commission of the 21st Century Economy, a "bipartisan" panel mostly appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger, that call for establishing a "stable, predictable source of long-term funding" for the state’s public transit agencies. “The latest budget shell game only reinforced what […]

Streetscast: Sunday Streets Press Conference

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 16, 2009 | 3 Comments

Leah Shahum with Wade Crowfoot, Nat Ford, David Chiu and Ben Caldwell. Photo by Bryan Goebel. The Mayor’s Director of Climate Change Initiatives, Wade Crowfoot, joined MTA Executive Director Nat Ford, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum and many others this morning to formally announce this year’s six Sunday Streets […]

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