Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Buses

SFMTA to Purchase 45 New Low-Floor Hybrid Muni Buses

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 5, 2012 | 15 Comments

Good news for Muni riders who are tired of bus breakdowns: Muni will get 45 new low-floor, biodiesel hybrid buses to replace its aging fleet. The agreement was approved yesterday by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors. The buses, which will be similar to Muni’s existing hybrid buses rolled out in 2007, will […]

Muni Receives $21.4M in Federal Funds for New Buses, 8x Line Improvements

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2012 | 8 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency received more than $21 million in federal funds to purchase new buses and implement improvements like colored bus lanes, transit priority signals, and bus-mounted enforcement cameras, the agency announced today. The funds come from the Federal Transit Administration’s Livability and State of Good Repair grant programs. In total, the FTA will […]

BRT Imposes Order on Mexico City Streets, Speeding and Greening Commutes

By Noah Kazis | Mar 22, 2012 | No Comments

This is the second in a series of reports about sustainable transportation policies in Mexico City. Last week, Streetsblog participated in a tour of the city led by the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. A previous installment covered pedestrian improvements in the city and a third will discuss its bicycle […]

SPUR: How Will 1.7 Million More People Cross the Bay?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 17, 2011 | 35 Comments

Crossing the Bay from SPUR on Vimeo. SPUR has produced a new video that asks: How will 1.7 million more people cross the Bay? From the SPUR blog: In the last century, visionary planners made major investments linking San Francisco and the East Bay. When the 20th century dawned, the only way to get from […]

Taking Greyhound? Papers, Please.

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 16, 2011 | No Comments

Transportation options for undocumented immigrants are becoming narrower and narrower in the U.S. Whatever you may think of immigration policy, there are about 11 million people living in the shadows in this country who have ever fewer ways to get around. Immigration agents have been boarding Greyhound buses to nab undocumented immigrants, according to a […]

Peru’s Traffic Menagerie

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our daily urban lives shape our imaginations in so many ways. Few things box us in like our everyday transit options, and the patterns of traffic that shape our sense of public space. These patterns themselves are historical of course. A quick look back at the famous Market Street film shot a few days before […]

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