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Is the Geary Bus Rapid Transit Project in Jeopardy?

By Dave Snyder | Oct 5, 2009 | 54 Comments

Photo: plug1 If the Geary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project doesn’t get some love from advocates and the general public, the project could be in trouble, according to several people closely following the process. "I look to the left, I look to the right, all I see is opposition and criticism," says Joel Ramos, a […]

It’s Time to Turn Oak and Fell Into Slow Streets

By Dave Snyder | Sep 24, 2009 | 41 Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 The SFMTA’s plans to install freeway-style traffic information signs on Oak and Fell Streets were not very popular, to say the least, at last week’s meeting of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association. The signs, two of seven the MTA plans to install around the city, are part of the SFgo program […]

SF Supes Embrace Parking Benefit Districts and Market Street Safety Zones

By Matthew Roth | Sep 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, in their role as commissioners of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA), voted unanimously to approve the TA’s enormous on-street parking management study and authorized revisions to pilot Market Street pedestrian and bicycle safety zones. The TA’s on-street parking study had been delayed for two […]

Market Street Pilot is an Encouraging Move by Mayor Newsom

By Matthew Roth | Sep 10, 2009 | 11 Comments

Photo: Arul Prasad Though much of the media reaction to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Better Market Street Project is narrowly focusing on the traffic impacts of mandatory right-turns at two intersections on Market, the trial project will attempt to do much more to improve the public realm and public perception of San Francisco’s most iconic street. […]

Violations in SF’s Transit-Only Lanes Rampant and Rarely Enforced

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 11, 2009 | 27 Comments

A driver on Mission Street in SoMa uses the transit-only lane to zoom past other cars, and faces little risk of being ticketed. Photo: Michael Rhodes It doesn’t take much for a car illegally driving in Market Street’s transit-only lanes to set Muni vehicles back by an entire stoplight cycle. In fact, it happens all […]

Employee Shuttles Finding Their Place in SF’s Complex Transit System

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 5, 2009 | 38 Comments

A Yahoo employee waits to board a corporate shuttle in the Civic Center. Flickr photo: commander_klaus In New York, the standard icon of corporate prestige is a gleaming tower downtown bearing a company’s name. Here in the Bay Area, one of the preferred symbols is a sprawling, parking lot-ringed "corporate campus" off US-101 (Google, Yahoo) […]

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