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Engineers Unveil Designs for Bike/Ped Path on Bay Bridge West Span

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 14, 2011 | 31 Comments

The long-sought addition of bicycle and pedestrian access across the length of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is one step closer to fruition. Last night, engineers presented the first design proposals for a pathway for bicyclists, pedestrians and maintenance crews to the west span, but they say the funding and technical challenges that lie ahead […]

Commentary: Caltrans Should Relinquish Local Main Streets

By Matthew Ridgway | Aug 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

City planners have been talking about Complete Streets for awhile now. I half expected it to go the way of the Transit First Policy wave that swept California and the U.S. a decade ago; that is to say, a lot of talk, many well-intentioned policies, but mostly business as usual for transportation priorities. I am […]

Bike Advocates Seek to Reform Obscure Caltrans Committee

By Bryan Goebel | May 19, 2011 | 12 Comments

For decades, a little known Caltrans advisory committee dominated by highway and automobile interests has been setting the design standards for signs, signals and pavement markings for California’s urban streets. If a city wants a green bike lane, it has to be approved by the California Traffic Control Devices Committee (CTCDC), which also develops the […]

California Bike Coalition Seeks More Representative Caltrans Standards

By Jim Brown | Apr 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

The following is being republished from the monthly newsletter of the California Bicycle Coalition. When bicycling facilities help people feel safer, more people of all ages and abilities ride bikes. Yet the current statewide design standards keep California cities from building the kind of facilities envisioned by the Urban Bikeways Design Guide released earlier this […]

BART Breaks Ground on East Contra Costa County Extension

By Matthew Roth | Oct 29, 2010 | 7 Comments

For BART, the past month marks the beginning of two very different extensions, though both have been controversial. After surmounting vigorous opposition to the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC), BART inaugurated the 3.2 mile, $484 million extension last week with great fanfare and a large crowd of construction workers and politicians proud to get the project […]

Presidio Parkway Could Revive a Wetland Buried by Asphalt

By Matt Baume | Aug 26, 2010 | 9 Comments

It may look like a forgotten military landscape, decaying beneath an elevated freeway and overgrown with weeds, but hidden beneath the abandoned buildings and broken pavement, Presidio planners see the potential to regenerate a wetland. Quartermaster Reach is currently so neglected, most people don’t even know it exists. Floating between Lucasfilm’s Letterman complex and the […]

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