Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Buses

Paradise LOSt (Part III): California’s Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis

By Matthew Roth | Jan 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Transportation consultants and planners associated with the San Francisco Transportation Authority’s (TA) ATG working group sent excited bursts of email to each other earlier this month about a new development coming from the state Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the body responsible for writing and amending the CEQA guidelines related to transportation and traffic. […]

Watch Now: House Rules Committee Debating Stim Package

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 1 Comment

For the C-SPAN junkies out there, watch the live discussion in the House about the merits of the Stimulus Plan. As Streetsblog NYC reports, New York Rep Nadler and Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio have delivered their testimony for the Nadler amendment (PDF). Rules Chair Louise Slaughter and committee members Matsui, McGovern, and Diaz-Balart responded very […]

Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

One of the unintended consequences of San Francisco’s bicycle injunction, which Rob Anderson and fellow NIMBYs will likely rue for some time to come, is the arduous thought and labor that advocates and professional planners have invested in doing away with LOS all together. Two arguments in the debate over LOS have emerged. One […]

Paradise LOSt (Part I): How Long Will the City Keep Us Stuck in Our Cars?

By Matthew Roth | Jan 26, 2009 | 34 Comments

The idea that the speed and free-flow of cars is the proxy that is being used across the state of California to measure whether a project is [environmentally] impactful is in the long run undermining the very quality of life [we] are working to protect.