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Tuesday: Support Needed for a Car-Free Bike/Ped Path on the Marina

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 17, 2014 | 9 Comments

One year after community planning meetings began, plans finally appear to be moving forward for removing the 51 parking spaces in the middle of a walking and biking path along the Marina — the only stretch of the 500-mile Bay Trail with cars on it. But Marina boat owners aren’t giving up, and car-free path supporters need to turn […]

New CA Database Shows How Much Parking Costs and How Little It’s Used

By Melanie Curry | Oct 17, 2014 | No Comments

Zoning laws in California usually require new developments to come with a minimum number of parking spaces. Housing, restaurants, stores, movie theaters — everything requires some number of parking spaces, theoretically based on the best available data. Usually that data is whatever is listed in the Institute of Transportation Engineer’s (ITE) Parking Generation Manual. Since that manual […]

New Planning-Savvy Advocacy Group Pushes for a People-Friendly Oakland

By Melanie Curry | Oct 13, 2014 | 11 Comments

A group of planning-savvy Oakland residents and workers has formed Transport Oakland to advocate for sustainable transportation and livable streets. With declining car traffic and exciting developments on the way like bike-share and bus rapid transit, the group says the growing East Bay port city could become a people-friendly mecca — given the right leadership. Transport Oakland […]

Oakland Unnecessarily Pits Safe Bicycling vs. Transit on Telegraph Avenue

By Melanie Curry | Sep 19, 2014 | 6 Comments

At two workshops last week in Oakland, attendees overwhelmingly called for a bolder plan to make Telegraph Avenue safer and include protected bike lanes. Oakland planners ditched their original proposals for parking-protected bike lanes, instead proposing buffered, unprotected bike lanes on most of the street. In Temescal, the street’s most dangerous and motor traffic-heavy section, planners insist […]

SPUR Ocean Beach Erosion Plan Shelves Road Diet for Great Highway

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 27, 2014 | 22 Comments

SPUR has set adrift its proposal to halve the size of the Great Highway along Ocean Beach, as the group strives to avoid distracting attention from implementing the other priorities in its Ocean Beach Master Plan. A road diet may be revisited later, once more pressing concerns have advanced. SPUR calls the OBMP “a comprehensive vision to […]

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After 50 Events, Sunday Streets Director Departs to Spread the Word

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 25, 2014 | 2 Comments

Susan King is moving on from her position at Livable City as director of SF’s Sunday Streets, after hosting the 50th open streets event yesterday in the Mission. King plans to bring open streets events to cities across the state by establishing the California Open Streets Network (CAOS). “I feel great that this program is […]

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