Recent Streetsblog SF posts about CEQA

California Bike Coalition Sets An Ambitious Reform Agenda for 2013

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2013 | No Comments

The top priority for California bicycle advocates this year? To ensure state funding for biking and walking gets better, not worse. That’s according to California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) President Dave Snyder, who recently spoke with Streetsblog to lay out the organization’s goals and strategies in its 2013 legislative agenda, both in the capitol and across […]

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Supes Reject Legal Appeal Against Fell/Oak Bikeways and Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 12, 2012 | 22 Comments

A legal appeal filed against protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety upgrades on three blocks of Fell and Oak Streets was rejected unanimously by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Construction on the project, currently underway the SF Municipal Transportation Agency beginning with the Fell Street protected bike lane, will not be halted by the appeal. […]

The Sinister Logic of Old-School Traffic Engineering, in XtraNormal

By Matthew Roth | Dec 8, 2010 | 3 Comments

There is a strange world where up is down, in is out, right is wrong, and black is white. I’m not just talking about the San Francisco Planning Department’s indefensible trip-generation analysis for new parking spaces. No, I mean the world of old-school traffic engineers, where improving safety on the streets means reducing conflicts with […]

CA Poised to Reform Auto-Centric Level of Service Environmental Rules

By Matthew Roth | Oct 26, 2009 | 7 Comments

California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old Automobile Level of Service (LOS) threshold for impacts of new projects and has led to the construction of excess off-street parking. Photo: pbo31 The state’s […]

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. […]

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 […]

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