Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Muni

Election Reflection: The Bay Area Needs More Bridges to the Rest of America

By Roger Rudick | Nov 10, 2016 | 15 Comments

Streetsblog editors from New York, Washington and Los Angeles have tried to make sense of what happened on Tuesday, and what it means to the livable-streets movement. Much of my family is from Pittsburgh. Like San Francisco, it is a beautiful place, bounded by water, with hills, great, walkable neighborhoods, and bridges. Pennsylvania was a […]

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SPUR talk on Local Measures: BART Bond Passes, Mixed Results on Others

By Roger Rudick | Nov 9, 2016 | No Comments

This afternoon, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), hosted a post-election analysis of local races and measures with political consultants David Latterman of Fall Line Analytics and Alex Clemens of Lighthouse Public Affairs. Clemens started off his presentation and summed up the mood in the room with a single word: “sh*t!” […]

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A Note of Caution on Tech and Privatizing Transit

By Roger Rudick | Oct 31, 2016 | 133 Comments

At a recent SPUR meeting, an audience member asked why cities continue to invest billions in long-term projects, such as the Central Subway, when ride-hail services such as Juno, Lyft, and Uber Pool have rendered urban rail more or less obsolete. This sentiment is reflected in a recent piece in the Atlantic by former Los […]

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Fixing the Mess at Geneva-San Jose/Balboa Park

By Roger Rudick | Oct 27, 2016 | 6 Comments

Last night, SFMTA held an open house at Lick Wilmerding High School to get community suggestions on what to do about the mess of tracks, ramps, road and pedestrian crossings on and around the intersection of Geneva and San Jose, adjacent to the Balboa Park BART and Muni stations. From SFMTA’s project page: The SFMTA […]

Safe Streets Advocates Urge ‘Yes’ Vote on Props J & K

By Brian Wiedenmeier, Nicole Ferrara and Tom Radulovich | Oct 26, 2016 | 12 Comments

Amid an avalanche of issues on the November ballot, San Francisco voters face one question with consequences for each of us every single day: Should our city invest in safe, affordable transportation? To answer yes, we must pass both Propositions J & K. At a time when so many people feel pressed by the soaring […]

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Safety Guerrillas Hit Valencia Street

By Roger Rudick | Oct 24, 2016 | 85 Comments

Streetsblog was up before dawn this morning, an invited guest of SFMTrA–the guerrilla group that’s given up waiting for the city to make our streets safer–for a quick infrastructure upgrade to Valencia Street’s bike lanes. This time three members of the group, who go by the handles Copenhagen, Dragon (who came with a furry dragon […]

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