Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

Ryan Russo, Dan Kalb, Renee Rivera and Ann Smulka cut the ribbon on Oakland's first concrete -protected bike lane. Photo Streetsblog/Rudick

SPUR Talk: Running a Big City DOT

By Roger Rudick | | 4 Comments
Seleta Reynolds, General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, was working at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets section three years ago, when a friend called and asked if he could put her name in the hat for manager of LADOT. “I giggled and said I’m not qualified,” she recalled at a […]
The Central Subway construction. Photo: SFMTA

Transit, Vision Zero, Livable Streets, and other Highlights of the “Focus on the Future” Conference

By Roger Rudick | | 3 Comments
“What if San Francisco becomes the next Detroit?” asked Jonathan Miranda, Director of Strategy at Salesforce.com, during a keynote speech this morning at the “Focus on the Future” conference in downtown San Francisco. Given the region’s meteoric growth, that may seem far fetched–but no more so than Detroit’s fall after the booming years of the […]
Paul Avenue. This bike lane was installed only a few months ago, but because local residents complained about the loss of parking to Supervisor Malia Cohen, SFMTA is entertaining calls to remove it. Photo: David Froehlich

City Prepares to Remove Paul Avenue Bike Lane

By Roger Rudick | | 20 Comments
Streetsblog tipster Chris Waddling brought this to our attention: apparently a new bike lane in the Bayview District may soon get removed. “Supervisor Cohen is seriously considering bowing to people demanding that new bike lanes on Paul Ave be removed a mere months after they went in,” wrote Waddling, in an email to Streetsblog. “There […]
BART's Hayward shop. Photo: Streetsblog.

BART Makes Some Progress on Noise

By Roger Rudick | | 6 Comments
BART has been busy reshaping its wheels as part of a strategy to reduce the system’s notorious howl. Initial results show it’s working. “The new, reduced-contact wheel profile has shown as much as a 15 dB decrease in interior noise on the current fleet” wrote the transit operator in a release put out today. “By […]
France's TGV, similar to what will eventually run in California, runs under wire and uses carbon-free electricity. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

SPUR Gets Preview of State Rail Plan

By Roger Rudick | | 25 Comments
Take Caltrain from San Francisco to San Jose, and it costs $9.75. But come back on the other side of the Bay, to Oakland’s Jack London Square Amtrak station, and it will cost you between $17 and $37 on Amtrak. The tickets are completely different, purchased from different agencies, from different machines. This is just […]
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