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Judge Busch Delays Decision on Lifting SF Bike Injunction

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 2, 2009 | 7 Comments

A San Francisco judge today delayed a decision on lifting the city’s three-year-old bike injunction, and instead ordered both parties to submit briefs by November 12th on his authority to lift the injunction, and then reverse it, if he later determines at a separate hearing that the exhaustive 2,000 page document is not adequate, although […]

San Jose Provides Model for Bay Area Growth and Transportation Needs

By Matthew Roth | Oct 30, 2009 | 12 Comments

Photo: pbo31 In our ongoing coverage of the adverse affects of traffic engineers’ over-reliance on automobile level of service (LOS) measurements, we’ve examined how new amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) would allow local jurisdictions greater freedom in choosing whether they want to develop their cities for cars or for transit, cycling, and […]

Eyes on the Street: San Francisco Gets First New Bike Lanes in Three Years

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 29, 2009 | 28 Comments

Heading down the 19th Avenue mixed-use bike path (south) into campus. Photo: Randall Orr Surprise! San Francisco has its first new bike lanes in three years, five days before a scheduled court hearing on lifting the bicycle injunction. The new bike lanes are part of the 19th Avenue mixed-use path, Project 8.1 in the Bike […]

SF Plans to Act Quickly on Bike Projects When Injunction is Lifted

By Matthew Roth | Oct 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

The SFMTA is already surveying locations where bike racks have been requested and plans to add 750 racks as soon as the injunction is lifted. Photo: Dave Snyder. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Chief Nat Ford have made repeated promises that they will act swiftly to build out large segments of the city’s […]

CA Poised to Reform Auto-Centric Level of Service Environmental Rules

By Matthew Roth | Oct 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old Automobile Level of Service (LOS) threshold for impacts of new projects and has led to the construction of excess off-street parking. Photo: pbo31 The state’s […]

SFBC Presses for Bike Access on a Piece of Geary Boulevard

By Dave Snyder | Oct 26, 2009 | 24 Comments

The relatively gentle grades of Geary Blvd. approaching Masonic make it the route of choice for most bicyclists in the corridor. The SFBC is working with the Transportation Authority (TA) to get a bicycle path considered for a portion of the Geary BRT project, a result of a meeting held between the two groups recently. […]

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