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Supervisor Carmen Chu Wary of Parking Meter Extension Proposal

By Matthew Roth | Oct 20, 2009 | 19 Comments

It shouldn’t be too surprising to those who have followed the debate on extending parking meter hours that Supervisor Carmen Chu is not a big fan. A tipster forwarded us an email from Chu’s office sent out last night to constituents encouraging them to show up at today’s MTA Board meeting and give their opinion […]

MTA Releases Parking Meter Study that Proposes Extending Hours

By Matthew Roth | Oct 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel MTA Chief Nat Ford, at a reporters’ round table today, released the long-anticipated parking study conducted by his agency to measure the traffic impacts of increasing parking meter hours on weekday evenings and on Sundays [Summary PDF] [Full Study PDF]. The study recommends that the agency extend parking meter hours in specific […]

David Byrne Turns His Book Reading Into Bicycle Advocacy Primer

By Matthew Roth | Sep 30, 2009 | 16 Comments

Former Talking Heads frontman and current bicycling icon David Byrne used his celebrity and the publication of his new book, Bicycle Diaries, to instruct a capacity audience of more than 900 people at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on the many ways that the bicycle has become a more acceptable and mainstream form of locomotion. Rather […]

SF Supes Embrace Parking Benefit Districts and Market Street Safety Zones

By Matthew Roth | Sep 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in their role as commissioners of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA), voted unanimously to approve the TA’s enormous on-street parking management study and authorized revisions to pilot Market Street pedestrian and bicycle safety zones. The TA’s on-street parking study had been delayed for two […]

Peak Fuel Report Offers Sober Assessment of San Francisco’s Energy Future

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 23, 2009 | 30 Comments

Somewhere amid the budget drama of the last several weeks, a peak oil and natural gas report (PDF) Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi called "a really big deal" got lost in the shuffle. So, when the Peak Oil Preparedness Task Force showed up before the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee today, neither the committee’s […]

Supervisors Give Golden Gate Park Meter Study the Go-Ahead

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 22, 2009 | 5 Comments

Could parking meters ruin this view? Flickr photo: morganthemoth In a vote that signaled both San Francisco’s new direction on parking policy and the severity of current budget shortfalls, the Board of Supervisors yesterday approved an ordinance giving the MTA authority to study installing parking meters in the eastern portion of Golden Gate Park. By […]

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