Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Caltrans

Bike Capacity to Increase on Capitol Corridor Trains

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 10, 2009 | 8 Comments

Flickr photo: Cheryl and Rich Caltrans and the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) have announced an increase in bicycle capacity on the nation’s third-busiest Amtrak line, which serves 16 stations spanning eight Northern California counties, after a survey of riders found that nearly nine percent, or 150,000, of its estimated 1.7 million annual rail […]

UC Planners Envision “Bay Line” Park on the Old Bay Bridge Span

By Matthew Roth | Sep 9, 2009 | 38 Comments

Images: Rael Fratello Architects When Joshua David formed Friends of the High Line in 1999 and started raising money to transform abandoned train tracks in mid-Manhattan into an elevated urban park, more than a few people thought him nuts. With the opening of the High Line in June and the warm reception it has received […]

Heavy Traffic Expected As Riders Scramble for BART Alternatives

By Matthew Roth | Aug 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

Flickr photo: schlick33 With BART’s operators’ union declaring an imminent strike that will shut down the entire system starting this Monday, Bay Area commuters are scrambling to find other options for getting to work, particularly from the East Bay, where BART and the Bay Bridge are the two primary transportation links across the water. Despite […]

Woman Hits Caltrans Worker, Claims He Didn’t Jump Fast Enough

By Matthew Roth | Jul 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

This just in from the "you’ve got to be sh*tting me" files: an Oregon woman, Catherine Stotts, 62, who was driving illegally in the construction lane of Route 20 in Mendocino County Tuesday afternoon, hit a Caltrans worker and then had the nerve to suggest he should have jumped out of the way faster to […]

SFBC Pavement to Parks Ride

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 8, 2009 | No Comments

"Join the San Francisco Great Streets Project as we check out the sites of San Francisco’s newest public space movement. Starting at the City’s first Pavement to Parks Site in the Castro, we’ll continue on to the three sites soon to be reclaimed in Potrero, Southern Mission and the Excelsior. All are welcome, will not […]

Valet Bicycle Parking at Bike Film Festival – Blonde Redhead Concert and After Party

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 8, 2009 | No Comments

"Bikes Rock-Blonde Redhead at the Bicycle Film Festival. Free valet bicycle parking provided. Continue the fun at the Bike Festival After-Party. Free valet bicycle parking provided. To volunteer as a bike valet email LisaRuth at vbpvolunteer@sfbike.org."

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