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Eyes On The Street: Mayor Newsom Shames Earth Day

By Matthew Roth | Apr 22, 2009 | 11 Comments

Thanks to Livable City Executive Director Tom Radulovich for this photo from earlier today Mayor Gavin Newsom sure knows how to milk a press conference when it suits his needs and beefs up his image. My favorite has been all the press attention he got for announcing a proposal for the one of the world’s […]

Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials

By Matthew Roth | Apr 22, 2009 | 8 Comments

Newsom extolling the glories of EVs, from mayorgavinnewsom via Flickr So Gav made it official yesterday that he’s running for Guv by tweeting it to his more than 283,000 followers, announcing it on Facebook, and even running a strange pseudo-article with a lot of donate hyperlinks in the Huffington Post, all of which made a […]

Bayview Merchants Hopeful Sunday Streets Will Bring Business

By Matthew Roth | Apr 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

A block of predominantly female-owned businesses that will participate in Sunday Streets It’s been reported that the Fisherman’s Wharf merchants who vocally opposed Sunday Streets along the Embarcadero last year now proclaim their support for the day and are programming numerous events to coincide with the street closures this Sunday. But merchants in Bayview never […]

MTA To Get Greater Management Role Over SFPD’s Traffic Company

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

Flickr photo: Thomas Hawk According to a "fact sheet" (PDF) released by the Mayor’s office Friday, "new operational improvements and efficiencies" have been identified that will amount to $3.5 million in cost savings for the MTA, including giving MTA Executive Director Nat Ford more power over the SFPD’s Traffic Company. The plan, first reported in […]

California Cities Need A Predictable Fund For Transit Operations

By Matthew Roth | Apr 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Photo by George Donnelly, via Flickr When the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund was zeroed out to pass the budget a couple of months ago, the already dire situation for transit operators in California became much worse. In the Bay Area, AC Transit raised fares, the MTA has been considering budget cuts and fare hikes, […]

Supervisor Dufty Blasts SFPD Over MTA Work Orders

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 9, 2009 | 9 Comments

Supervisor Bevan Dufty, armed with numbers and documents he obtained detailing MTA work orders from other city departments, scolded two members of the San Francisco Police Department’s top brass Wednesday, calling the department’s raid on Muni’s budget "excessive" and "unbelievable." Dufty called the hearing before the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee to examine […]

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