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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) […]

Livable Streets Concerns Overshadowed at Geary Blvd BRT Meeting

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 28, 2009 | 9 Comments

Supervisor Eric Mar, right, sought to ease concerns and set straight untrue rumors about the Geary BRT project. Photos: Michael Rhodes At a community meeting in the Richmond last night, planners from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and Supervisor Eric Mar sought public input on the Geary Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit project – and […]

Geary Blvd BRT Meeting Tonight in the Richmond

By Matthew Roth | Jul 27, 2009 | No Comments

Image: SFCTA As the environmental review process moves forward for the Geary Boulevard Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, Supervisor Eric Mar is holding a community meeting to discuss the many issues at stake along the city’s busiest bus route. As we’ve written, the Geary BRT will be complementary to the proposed Van Ness corridor project, […]

Enrique Peñalosa Urges SF to Embrace Pedestrians and Public Space

By Matthew Roth | Jul 8, 2009 | 14 Comments

Photo: Matthew Roth Celebrated Colombian urbanist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa told a standing room audience of more than one hundred people at the San Francisco Public Library last night that San Francisco can be friendly to cars or to people, but not both. Further, he argued that there is no fundamental technical […]

Muni Bus-Stop Spacing Analysis Shows 70 Percent of Stops Too Close

By Matthew Roth | Jun 10, 2009 | 60 Comments

Flickr photo: Octoferret The MTA this afternoon released analysis of bus stop spacing showing what anyone who has been on Muni knows: there are way too many stops too close together (PDF). Overall nearly 70 percent of the 4,000 bus and rail stops in the city don’t adhere to the MTA’s own distance policy, and […]

Residents Upset Over Outer Richmond Muni Service Cuts

By Susan Vaughan | Jun 9, 2009 | 11 Comments

Photo: Susan Vaughan The MTA, in the middle of a $129 million budget shortfall, plans to reduce bus service to the outer avenues at various points in the Richmond District, already one of the most difficult parts of San Francisco to reach via public transportation. “It sucks,” said Richmond resident Sandy Newport who lives near […]

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