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Not Voting for Buses? Bay Area Transit Study Open Thread

By Roger Rudick | Jun 7, 2016 | 27 Comments

Election day is a good time for a discussion about a recent Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) study that seems to show that Bay Area residents are using their transit choices to, in effect, vote for rail, ferry, and ride-hailing, but not for more buses. From an East Bay Times look at the study: The problem is that buses, by far […]

M-Ocean View Subway: Is this Project Really About Trains?

By Roger Rudick | Jun 6, 2016 | 92 Comments

Thursday, SFMTA joined several agencies at the Bay Area 2040 open house in Oakland. One of the projects presented was the M-Ocean View improvement plan. As the Examiner reported today, SFMTA is now leaning towards an all-underground option, with a tunnel stretching from West Portal to Parkmerced. This project, at around $3 billion, would re-align the […]

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Bay Area 2040: Envisioning the Future of the Bay Area

By Roger Rudick | Jun 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Who says you can’t have everything? Well, when it comes to transportation infrastructure and planning, economics and tax payers do, for starters. But Thursday evening’s Plan Bay Area 2040 open house wasn’t about holding back. Instead, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) asked the public to chime in […]

SF Budget: Better Muni and Vision Zero…But November Tax Has to Pass

By Roger Rudick | Jun 1, 2016 | 11 Comments

San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee released his 455-page budget proposal on Tuesday. It includes $9.6 billion in fiscal year 2016-17 for transportation, police officers, and street cleaning, a $700 million increase in funds. The fiscal year runs from July 1 of this year until June 30 of next year. The transportation section runs from pages […]

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Litter and Livable Streets

By Roger Rudick | May 31, 2016 | 16 Comments

A few weeks ago, I found an apartment in the Outer Mission. It had a view of Twin Peaks, plenty of room, and it was in my price range. It is a short bike ride to the great transportation links at Balboa Park Station. It also was a half-block from a stop on the 14-Mission […]

A Safer Masonic on the Way

By Roger Rudick | May 26, 2016 | 11 Comments

Wednesday evening some 130 local residents and other interested parties dropped in at the San Francisco Day School to learn about the construction phase of SFMTAs Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project. To quote SFMTA’s own release about the project: With construction starting in June 2016, the Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project is an effort to improve safety for […]

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