Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Commuting

Santa Cruz Non-Profit Now Offers Ride Insurance to Car-Free Commuters

By Elana Schor | Sep 14, 2009 | 3 Comments

Transit and bike commuters in many cities are able to rush home quickly if an emergency strikes — but for commuters looking to give up their cars in less dense areas, an emergency often means a pricey cab ride. One California county that falls in the latter camp, Santa Cruz, has come up with a […]

BART Transit Operators Announce Strike by End of Day Sunday

By Matthew Roth | Aug 13, 2009 | 5 Comments

ATU 1555 President Jesse Hunt announcing strike. Photo: Matthew Roth Standing in front of union headquarters in downtown Oakland this afternoon, leadership for BART’s Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1555 announced that their rank and file would walk off the job after the last trains finish their run this Sunday night, effectively shutting down BART […]

511 Transit Called “Heroic Act of Interagency Cooperation”

By Matthew Roth | Aug 12, 2009 | 18 Comments

Image: transit.511.org The Government Computer News magazine, part of the U.S. General Services Administration, called the 511 Transit website maintained by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) "a heroic act of interagency coordination" when naming it to it’s list of the "10 great government websites nationwide for 2009." I’m not trying to downplay the utility and […]

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) […]

BART a National Leader in Real-Time Data Transparency and Development

By Matthew Roth | Jul 14, 2009 | 6 Comments

While the dispute between the MTA and NextBus Information Services (NBIS) over how real-time bus data on NextMuni (a separate company from NBIS) is used and licensed continues behind closed doors in downtown San Francisco, across the Bay, BART has flung its proverbial doors wide open to third-party developers to use its real-time data in […]

Lawmakers Aim to Bring ‘Sustainable Communities’ From Talk to Action

By Elana Schor | Jul 8, 2009 | No Comments

When three agencies in President Obama’s Cabinet — DOT, Housing and Urban Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency — banded together to promote "sustainable communities," the initiative sounded promising but somewhat lacking in concrete ideas. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) attached his green-housing legislation to the recently passed House climate bill. (Photo: AP) Enter a bipartisan […]

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