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Another Court Decision in Favor of California Transit Agencies

By Matthew Roth | Dec 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: Thomas Hawk In another rebuff to California’s practice of moving spillover funding from the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund to fill the hole in the state’s General Fund, a Superior Court ruled on Monday that the state had to pay back the approximately $1.2 billion it diverted from transit operators in the 2007-2008 budget […]

Streetfilms: Making a Better Market Street in San Francisco

By John Hamilton | Dec 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

For decades, planners and transportation specialists have debated how San Francisco’s most important street could be re-visioned to make it work better for transit, pedestrians, cyclists, shoppers, and those living on or near it. Now, as the Better Market Street Project moves forward with trial traffic diversions, the Art in Storefronts project, music and programming […]

Eyes on the Street: Powell Street Parking Lane Becomes Trial Sidewalk

By Matthew Roth | Dec 14, 2009 | 16 Comments

Powell Street parking lane closed to cars for increased pedestrian space. Photos: Matthew Roth San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office this weekend experimented with the temporary removal of a handful of parking spaces on Powell Street between Ellis and Geary Streets to give holiday shoppers in and around Union Square more space to navigate the […]

Bay Area Toll Authority Mulls Toll Increase Scenarios, Seeks Public Input

By Matthew Roth | Dec 7, 2009 | 21 Comments

Photo: kpmarek As the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) continues its regional public hearings, including one tonight in San Francisco, the various options the agency is proposing for increasing bridge tolls are generating a number of debates and proposals, including the funding of the long-discussed pedestrian/bicycle/maintenance paths over the west span of the Bay Bridge. […]

Free Public Transit?

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 7, 2009 | 26 Comments

A crowded moment in the Tunnelbana, Stockholm, Sweden’s efficient and easy public subway system. In Stockholm, Sweden, a fascinating political intervention has been taking place during the past few years. Starting originally around 2000-2001 in an anarcho-syndicalist youth organization, Planka.nu is a surprisingly innovative and effective transit activist group. Today it is still an entirely […]

Come Celebrate the Year of the Bike at SFBC’s Winterfest

By Matthew Roth | Dec 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

With the gradual thawing underway in the three-year freeze of bicycle infrastructure in San Francisco, this year’s SFBC Winterfest celebration, one of the best bicycle parties in any year, is sure to warm this Sunday night up right. "It’s a place where cyclists of all shapes, sizes and creeds come together to celebrate cycling and […]

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