Recent Streetsblog SF posts about MTC

SFMTA Board’s Final Vote Expected to Grant Free Muni for Low-Income Youth

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 21, 2012 | 5 Comments

With backing from the Board of Supervisors yesterday, free Muni for low-income youth may finally come to fruition if approved by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors on December 4. Favor from the SFMTA board seems likely, since it already approved the agency’s share of the funds for the program in its two-year budget […]

MTC Votes to Reject Funding for Free Muni for Low-Income Youth

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 25, 2012 | 9 Comments

In a 7-8 vote, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission today rejected $4 million in funding for the free Muni for low-income youth pilot program. After the vote, proponents chanted “shame on you” to the commission, according to the SF Chronicle. “We were definitely very disappointed, especially with the kind of resources the MTC has and the other […]

Big Ferry Subsidies for Tech Firms Before Free Muni for Low-Income Youth?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 12, 2012 | 10 Comments

Free Muni for low-income youth is just within reach, which would be the culmination of a hard-fought advocacy campaign that urged the SF Municipal Transportation Agency and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to set aside a total of $9.4 million to improve transit access for students in need. However, campaign organizers are remarking on the stark […]

Mapping a Fully Transit-Connected Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Imagine the freedom of being able to hop on a nearby train or bus to reach virtually any place in the Bay Area (and beyond) on an integrated network of reliable transit. That’s the vision cartographer Brian Stokle sought to lay out in a map featured in the latest issue of SPUR‘s monthly magazine, The Urbanist. In a recent […]

House Transportation Bill: What’s at Stake for the Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

Reliable transit and safer streets in San Francisco and the Bay Area could be crippled by what U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called “the worst transportation bill [he’s] ever seen” making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill has been reporting, H.R. 7, the federal transportation bill being pushed by House […]

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 […]

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