Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Economics

The ‘Movie Ticket’ Theory of Transportation Pricing

By Elana Schor | Sep 10, 2009 | No Comments

Let’s say you’re at the movies, and you look up at the box office only to see no ticket prices listed. You know you’re going to have to pay for the show eventually — perhaps even during income-tax season — but for now you can watch all you want, seemingly for free. (Photo: Roloff via […]

BART Transit Blogger Roundtable, Part II

By Matthew Roth | Jun 4, 2009 | No Comments

Flickr Photo: pbo31 Last week regional transit bloggers sat down with BART management and asked questions of General Manager Dorothy Dugger about her transit operation. This is part two of that roundtable: Impact of economy on operating budget The biggest challenge that I’m focused on right now is certainly the effects of the economic reality […]

Ad Nauseam: What Are You Implying, Chase?

By Matthew Roth | Apr 15, 2009 | 13 Comments

Photo by Matthew Roth Welcome to town Chase. I’m super impressed you have been reading Streetsblog San Francisco and made an ad that reflects some of the knowledge you’ve acquired here. This is obviously a shout out to the car-free community. Might the admen understand the incredible cost savings of ditching the car for a […]

BART Releases 2010 Budget, But Board Doesn’t Debate Its Merits

By Matthew Roth | Apr 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo by dav id from East Bay Indymedia Despite meeting for more than seven hours yesterday, the BART Board of Directors never managed to discuss the budget, in no small part because of the drama and theatrics of a public enraged about the shooting of Oscar Grant on January 1st and the release of an […]

Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector

By Matthew Roth | Feb 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

How will you get to the Oakland Airport in 5 years? The debate over how to spend the federal transportation stimulus money at the regional level is heating up and may boil over tomorrow morning at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting. As we reported here two weeks ago, the nine-county Bay Area will […]

The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers

By Matthew Roth | Feb 20, 2009 | 25 Comments

A valuable sidewalk, but parking should be removed and the sidewalk widened to accommodate pedestrians and meet ADA requirements. As we wrote a couple days ago about Jefferson Street, merchants on the commercial street there and throughout the city often assume parking spaces in front of their stores are vital to business, that their customers […]

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