Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Caltrans

Caltrans on the Hot Seat: Assembly Looks at State, Local Planning Tensions

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

It was the California State Assembly’s turn to review the recent State Smart Transportation Initiative (SSTI) report on Caltrans at a Transportation Committee hearing Monday. The discussion played out along the same lines as the Senate Transportation Committee hearing last month, where Professor Joel Rogers, who led the team that produced the report for the California Transportation […]

Senate Hearing Highlights Report on Caltrans’ Car-Centric Ways

By Melanie Curry | Feb 13, 2014 | No Comments

With a recent report calling out the need for Caltrans to focus less on building highways and more on letting cities build people-friendly streets, state legislators have an eye trained on the agency’s progress towards reform. The California Senate’s Transportation and Housing Committee held a hearing yesterday to discuss the new report [PDF], conducted by the […]

Gov’s Report to Caltrans: Get Out of the Way of Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2014 | 6 Comments

Caltrans needs to stop focusing so much on moving cars and let cities build safer street designs with protected bike lanes, says a new report commissioned by Governor Jerry Brown and CA Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly. The report [PDF] calls out Caltrans’ “archaic” practices when it comes to imposing outdated, automobile-centric design standards on city streets in California, and says […]

Proving to Caltrans That El Camino Real Can Be a Safer Street

By Andrew Boone | Oct 17, 2013 | 7 Comments

Despite pockets of new development, El Camino Real remains a dangerous, car-oriented urban highway along most of the San Francisco Peninsula. If it can ever transform into a great street, it will have to become safer for walking and biking. And while enhancing walkability is a key goal of the Grand Boulevard Initiative — the long-term planning […]

SFMTA Installs Bike Lanes With Road Diet on Section of Outer Sloat

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 30, 2013 | 68 Comments

The SFMTA installed bike lanes on outer Sloat Boulevard last week, re-purposing two of the street’s six traffic lanes between the Great Highway and Skyline Boulevard next to the San Francisco Zoo. This one-mile redesign was one of the latter projects to be installed as part of the SF Bike Plan. There’s still a gap […]

Improving Daly City’s “Top of the Hill” for Walking and Transit

By Andrew Boone | Jul 5, 2013 | 9 Comments

Last Saturday, Daly City officials and residents convened to celebrate a newly built transit plaza, the centerpiece of the long-awaited $3.4 million Top of the Hill project, which includes a series of pedestrian and streetscape improvements along three blocks of Mission Street between John Daly Boulevard and Parkview Avenue. The project was constructed with $2.3 million from […]

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