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Phil Matier Needs to Do His Homework on Transit and Bike Policy

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 19, 2015 | 104 Comments

Phil Matier, a pundit for KCBS and the SF Chronicle, has been betraying a rather stunning lack of policy knowledge recently, painting transit in the Bay Area as a boondoggle and wagging his finger at “bicycle lobbyists” for opposing a statewide mandatory helmet law. In a KCBS radio segment this week, Matier did seem to […]

SFPD Traffic Commander’s Strategy for Safer Streets: Finger-Wagging

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 13, 2015 | 8 Comments

For SFPD Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali, the reason so many people are getting killed by drivers on SF’s streets apparently has nothing to do with the fact that every station but one is failing miserably to adhere to the department’s “Focus on the Five” enforcement strategy. Nor is it because SF’s streets are overwhelmingly designed to […]

Mayor-Funded BeyondChron Attacks Wiener’s Transit Funding Measure

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 31, 2014 | 10 Comments

BeyondChron editor Randy Shaw, who gets funding from the Mayor Ed Lee’s office for projects like the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, penned a predictable defense of Lee’s recent attack on Supervisor Scott Wiener’s transit funding ballot measure today. Shaw backed Lee’s decision to drop support for the vehicle license fee increase, and argued that Muni’s share of the […]

Watch: ABC 7 Talks With Officials, Advocates Supporting Vision Zero

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2014 | 5 Comments

ABC 7 news anchor Cheryl Jennings talked to some of San Francisco’s key city officials and advocates about Vision Zero, the campaign to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, on her show “Beyond the Headlines” Sunday. Pedestrian and bike safety was the theme of the half-hour show, during which Jennings interviewed SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin; the family of […]

Dance Performance Celebrates Temporarily Car-Free Lombard Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 21, 2014 | 3 Comments

Last week, cars once again took over SF’s crooked block of Lombard Street, following the last of a series of weekend trials that banned most cars from the street and opened it up to people instead. The Bay Area Flash Mob celebrated the last car-free day with a choreographed dance all the way down the winding road, […]

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