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Bikes on BART, Day 1: All Signs Point to a Smooth Morning Commute

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 3, 2012 | 23 Comments

With bikes let loose on this morning’s rush hour BART commute, all signs indicate that things went as smoothly — if not better — than usual. Our most recent search on the Twittersphere turns up not a single complaint, and reps from the East Bay and San Francisco Bicycle Coalitions, as well as BART, are reporting […]

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Advocates: Help Make BART’s Rush Hour “Bikes On Board” Pilot a Success

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 22, 2012 | 19 Comments

[Update: BART released a video explaining the bikes-on-board rush hour pilot.] BART announced a pilot last week to lift the ban on bikes aboard rush-hour trains each Friday in August. The news is cause for celebration among bike advocates, who are calling upon bike-toting passengers to help make the pilot a success by setting a […]

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Transbay Transit Center to Fill Downtown With People, Not Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2012 | 17 Comments

The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco’s downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa. Scheduled to open in 2017, it will link 11 transit systems and eventually CA High-Speed Rail. Some have called it the “Grand Central of the West.” The SF Planning Commission last week approved […]

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Can BART’s Bike Plan Double Bike-to-Train Ridership in Ten Years?

By Aaron Bialick | May 23, 2012 | 16 Comments

BART is updating its bicycle plan [PDF] and setting a new goal to double the rate of passengers who bike within ten years, largely by expanding secure parking and possibly relaxing its restrictions on bike access to trains and stations. The agency is asking the public to submit comments on the draft plan until May […]

Mapping a Fully Transit-Connected Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Imagine the freedom of being able to hop on a nearby train or bus to reach virtually any place in the Bay Area (and beyond) on an integrated network of reliable transit. That’s the vision cartographer Brian Stokle sought to lay out in a map featured in the latest issue of SPUR‘s monthly magazine, The Urbanist. In a recent […]

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit

By Egon Terplan | Mar 14, 2012 | 27 Comments

[Editor’s note: This article is re-published with permission from the transit-themed March issue of The Urbanist, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) monthly member magazine. The article, written by SPUR Regional Planning Director Egon Terplan, is based on a discussion paper developed by the SPUR Transportation Policy Board. Read the full paper at spur.org/tsp.] […]

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