Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFCTA

Supes Urge Regional Funding for Complete Street Redesign of Masonic

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 25, 2013 | 47 Comments

The plan to overhaul deadly Masonic Avenue with pedestrian safety upgrades and raised, protected bike lanes could get much of its funding from a regional grant program. The Masonic project has received a strong endorsement from three members of the Board of Supervisors, who sent a letter last week to the head of the SF County […]

Subway Station at SFSU? SFCTA Looks to Realign Muni’s M-Line on 19th Ave

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2013 | 21 Comments

With an influx of residents and students anticipated in the coming years, the city is looking at ways to improve rail service along the southern stretch of 19th Avenue by the Stonestown Mall and SF State University. A new study underway will consider putting Muni’s M-Ocean View on a trackway running above or below the […]

Geary BRT Advisor Resigns in Frustration at Snail’s Pace of SFCTA

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 6, 2013 | 15 Comments

Bus Rapid Transit on Geary Boulevard was originally slated to open last year. But today, planners are looking at a launch in 2020 — an eight-year setback for a project that was supposed to take advantage of low costs to get off the ground quickly. For Kieran Farr, the cycle of delays, studies, and outreach campaigns […]

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Survey: SF’s Top Transpo Priorities Are Fixing Muni, Safer Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 23, 2013 | 6 Comments

San Francisco’s scarce transportation funds should be used to make streets safer for walking and biking, and to make existing Muni service more reliable before expanding it, according to city residents who were asked to choose how to prioritize public spending. The findings come from the “Budget Czar” game, an online budgeting simulator recently used […]

Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Despite living in one of the city’s densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco’s most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s. In a BeyondChron article yesterday, editor and Tenderloin Housing […]

Supes Cave to Opposition, Shoot Down Muni Funding Reform — for Now

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 5, 2012 | 4 Comments

Letting down their transit-riding constituents once again, the Board of Supervisors rejected a measure to increase Muni funding by ending a fee exemption for large non-profit developers, following an intense opposition campaign that sowed misconceptions about which organizations would have to pay the fee. The policy change, proposed as part of a regular update to […]

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