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San Francisco Congestion Pricing Plan to Be Shopped at Public Meetings

By Matthew Roth | Jul 20, 2010 | 49 Comments

A London-style cordon encompassing the northeast section of the city. Cordon boundaries would be at 18th Street to the south and Guerrero and Laguna Streets to the west. Image: SFCTA. While the full results of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s (SFCTA) congestion pricing plan, the SF Mobility, Access, and Pricing Study (SFMAPS), have not […]

SF Asks High Speed Rail to Study “Minor or Major Modifications” to I-280

By Matthew Roth | Jul 2, 2010 | 13 Comments

Portions of I-280 north of Cesar Chavez serve to divide city neighborhoods. Photo: Troy Holden. At the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) meeting on Wednesday, where the public was briefed on various alignment options for bringing high speed rail to the Transbay Terminal and 4th and King station, numerous people living in Potrero Hill, […]

Muni Gets $7 Million from TA for Budget Balancing Act — With Conditions

By Michael Rhodes | Apr 27, 2010 | 8 Comments

Flickr photo: ricky.motalvo With the help of the Board of Supervisors acting as the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA) Board, Muni got a step closer today to finishing out fiscal year 2010 in the black, but there are major strings attached. In return for sending $7 million to the city’s transit agency, the supervisors […]

The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street

By Matthew Roth | Mar 11, 2010 | 21 Comments

Trial traffic diversions on Market Street. Photo: sfbike With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put […]

SF Transportation Authority Bicycle Tracker Available for Android

By Matthew Roth | Dec 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

As we reported last month, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA) released an innovative new application for mobile devices that allows users to track their bicycle commuting patterns with a GPS-enabled iPhone or iPod and share those trips with the agency responsible for improving bicycle networks around the city. Now CycleTracks is compatible on […]

SF Transportation Authority Launches iPhone App to Track Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | Nov 12, 2009 | 31 Comments

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA), the city’s congestion management agency responsible for modeling transportation and development patterns, has released its new bicycle route data application, Cycle Tracks, for iPhones and GPS-enabled iTunes players at the iTunes store. Like similar applications that give information such as speed and distance traveled, users of the TA […]

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