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BART Board Candidates Discuss Future of Bay Area Transportation

By Roger Rudick | Sep 13, 2016 | 20 Comments

Yesterday evening, the San Francisco Transit Riders held a “BART Board Director Candidate Forum” at the Mission Pool & Playground Clubhouse in the Mission District. From the SF Transit Riders: We are hosting the forum for the candidates to introduce themselves and respond to SFTR and public questions. This is an important time in BART’s […]

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Push Continues in City Hall for Safer Bike Infrastructure

By Roger Rudick | Sep 9, 2016 | No Comments

Note the ‘call to action’ at the end of this post. Yesterday afternoon, some 30 officials, police officers, advocates, and other members of the public joined the regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at City Hall to discuss how to get protected bike lanes installed […]

SFMTA Wants Your Help Planning San Francisco’s Subway Future

By Roger Rudick | Aug 19, 2016 | 6 Comments

Now’s your chance to go full transit geek. SFMTA has launched its “Subway Vision” web page as a first step in developing a long-range transportation plan for the next fifty years. Or as they explained it in their release: We want you to help draw the San Francisco subway map of the future. We’ve teamed […]

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Streetsblog Talks with Scott Wiener

By Roger Rudick | Aug 15, 2016 | 31 Comments

On Friday, Streetsblog caught up with District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. Readers may recall that Streetsblog last interviewed the then newly re-elected chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority back in January. Since that interview, much has changed. The mayor has a new Executive Directive on Vision Zero, a new city sales tax initiative is […]

SPUR Talk: Transportation Challenges for Downtown Tech Companies

By Roger Rudick | Aug 11, 2016 | No Comments

The San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), hosted a lunchtime talk in downtown San Francisco today, with representatives from Salesforce and Airbnb, about how the companies help employees commute between work and home. Unlike tech giants based outside of downtown San Francisco, neither company makes heavy use of private buses–so-called Tech […]

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SFMTA Readies Limited Roll Back on Mission Transit Project

By Roger Rudick | Aug 10, 2016 | 144 Comments

SFMTA staff has released its recommendations for compromises to its recently completed Mission Street transit upgrades. In addition to plans to relocate the outbound Cortland stop to the nearside of the intersection, the staff wants to move forward with (from the agency’s FAQ): Removing two of the required right turns on Mission at 26th and 22nd. This will […]

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