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San Francisco Pedestrian Safety Efforts Mired in City Bureaucracy

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 22, 2011 | 28 Comments

Despite a growing political focus on pedestrian safety, a thick layer of city bureaucracy and lack of funding are stalling real change to prevent pedestrian injuries and fatalities on San Francisco streets, including three deaths in just the last week. The red tape and dysfunction became abundantly clear at a presentation and discussion at City […]

SF Congestion Pricing Study Moves Forward Without San Mateo Boundary

By Matthew Roth | Dec 14, 2010 | 31 Comments

The study analyzing numerous options for congestion pricing in San Francisco touched off such a political furor in San Mateo County, you’d have thought San Francisco was about to moat up and charge a fee for admission. Politicians and planners from Daly City and San Mateo spoke about the plan today as though they were […]

Congestion Pricing Fracas Shows Lamentable Ignorance of Facts

By Matthew Roth | Dec 3, 2010 | 26 Comments

You’d think the Tea Party had descended on San Mateo County, what with the piqued rhetoric in the media over San Francisco’s congestion pricing study. I don’t like to invoke Sarah Palin’s jargon, but I keep coming back to her horrible phrase “lamestream media” when I see yet another story that paints San Francisco transportation […]

Planners Expect Public-Private Partnership to Lower Doyle Drive Costs

By Matthew Roth | Nov 15, 2010 | 5 Comments

The Presidio Parkway/Doyle Drive project will move into the second phase of construction early next year, but planners are already touting a unique public-private partnership, or P3 in their shorthand, which they say forges a new model for delivering massive infrastructure projects for less money and greater financial oversight. Assuming all the necessary approvals are […]

New Study Analyzes Traffic Around Former Central Freeway

By Matthew Roth | Sep 29, 2010 | 21 Comments

The Central Freeway sections damaged by the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 have been replaced by such a distinctive Octavia Boulevard, for many San Franciscans the double-decked behemoth that used to dominate the neighborhood has become a distant memory. Most of the traffic the freeway carried, however, has not disappeared and now city planners are […]

CPMC Hospital Stirs Concern Over Transit, Traffic, Pedestrian Impacts

By Matthew Roth | Sep 23, 2010 | 15 Comments

Transit advocates have joined a broad coalition of opponents mounting a fight against California Pacific Medical Center’s (CPMC) long range development plan for its San Francisco facilities, decrying the significant increase in parking being proposed, and the attendant impact that will have on traffic, transit and pedestrian safety. They argue the increase in parking supply […]

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