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BART is considering adding an Automated Parking System to its existing Dublin parking garage. Image from BART staff report

Dublin BART Parking Battle Takes on a New Twist

By Melanie Curry | Aug 9, 2017 | No Comments

A local assemblymember secured a promise of $20 million in state funding to build a parking garage for BART. But in the interim staff had come up with intriguing alternative proposals, and the board of directors opted for the quicker and less expensive option.

A County Transportation Authority rendering of what Market Street was supposed to look like before the program was scaled back.

Open Thread on the Better Market Street Plan

By Roger Rudick | Aug 4, 2017 | 29 Comments

The mainstream media was all over it: private cars to be banned from Market Street under the city’s “Better Market Street” plan. It will also have sidewalk-level protected bike lanes. For advocates in the safe streets community the design announced by the city this week is a major victory and a reason to celebrate. From […]

A rendering of where the skyline is going in south downtown SF. Image: SF Planning

New Parks, Skyscrapers, Wider Sidewalks, Protected Bike Lanes–all Part of South Downtown Plan

By Roger Rudick | Aug 3, 2017 | 9 Comments

Guy Place Park, a small ‘pocket park,’ is now fully funded and will be built, said Paul Chasan of the San Francisco Planning Department, during a presentation last night on the South Downtown Design and Activation Plan (SODA), given at the Bay Area Metro Center on Beale Street. The new park will be built on a 4,000-square […]

Imagine a tourist trying to decipher this mishmash of signs at the temporary bus stop from Castro to West Portal. How about one really big sign that says: "Catch Subway Replacement Bus Here." Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Muni Subway Closures — Can’t We Do Better?

By Roger Rudick | Jul 31, 2017 | 35 Comments

Here we are in week two of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)’s month-plus of weekend and evening closures of the core of its system–the subway tunnel from Embarcadero to West Portal. Overcrowding on the replacement bus service, as the SF Examiner reports, has left customers further peeved. In response, SFMTA is adding longer […]

Caltrain Electrification Groundbreaking

By Roger Rudick | Jul 21, 2017 | 8 Comments

“Some people hate trains,” joked Governor Jerry Brown, at this morning’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Caltrain electrification and modernization project, at the Millbrae Caltrain station. The audience of business leaders, well-known politicians, Caltrain staffers, high-speed rail people, and many others involved in the project laughed. “I didn’t say the majority!” Brown recalled riding the Daylight […]

One of Muni's new Siemens' LRVs. Photo: SFMTA

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Transit Watchers Question Need to Close Subway

By Roger Rudick | Jul 18, 2017 | 22 Comments

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) infuriated transit advocates when it announced on Saturday that it will close the entire Muni subway, from Embarcadero to West Portal, every weekend and after 9:30 p.m. during the week, for the next four or five weeks. The closures, which start this weekend, are part of a testing […]

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