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Congestion Pricing: Vital for Funding a Sustainable Transpo Future in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 11, 2012 | 43 Comments

Take a shot at budgeting San Francisco’s future transportation revenue with the new online “Budget Czar” simulator from the SF County Transportation Authority, and it will quickly become clear: If residents want better transit and safer streets for walking and biking over the next 25 years, the city needs to collect new sources of transportation revenue […]

The Outside Lands Transpo Crunch: Bringing 65K People Per Day to GG Park

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2012 | 30 Comments

For the fifth year, San Francisco’s transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival. With festival goers traveling from near and far, promoters have tried each year to curb the number of people arriving […]

More Cars = Less Congestion? Supes Grill CPMC’s Perplexing Traffic Analysis

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 19, 2012 | 6 Comments

How can more cars relieve congestion at an intersection? Members of the Board of Supervisors pursued that question this week during two hearings on California Pacific Medical Center’s plan to build the massive new Cathedral Hill medical center at Geary Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue. The board postponed a vote on Tuesday to approve the […]

TTI: Mass Transit Saved Drivers 45.4 Million Hours Last Year

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 27, 2011 | No Comments

Last year, the D.C. region ran away with the dubious honor of Most Congested Metro Area. D.C. area drivers wasted 74 hours and 37 gallons of fuel sitting in traffic last year, which would have cost about $100 over the course of the year. But the gasoline cost is just the tip of the iceberg. […]

Whose Streets?

By Chris Carlsson | Aug 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

“Whose Streets? OUR Streets!” yell rowdy demonstrators when they surge off the sidewalk and into thoroughfares. True enough, the streets are our public commons, what’s left of it (along with libraries and our diminishing public schools), but most of the time these public avenues are dedicated to the movement of vehicles, mostly privately owned autos. […]

Chamber of Commerce: Empty Asphalt = Good Transportation Performance

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 25, 2011 | No Comments

The Chamber of Commerce released its annual Transportation Performance Index (TPI) last week [PDF], and you can tell it’s due for a total overhaul, because according to the Index, recession-battered 2009 was a banner year for transportation performance. Using 2009 data, the Chamber, a powerful lobbying group that represents millions of American businesses, determined that […]

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