Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

The current green-striped, unprotected lane on Embarcadero. Photo: Streetsblog

SFMTA Gets Input on Plans for a Better Embarcadero

By Roger Rudick | Nov 18, 2016 | No Comments

Yesterday evening, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency held an open house, at Pier 1 on the Embarcadero, to get public feedback for the Embarcadero Enhancement Project. From the SFMTA website: The SFMTA, Port of San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department and San Francisco Public Works Department are collaborating on a planning project that will […]

Radulovich after his Streetsblog exit-interview outside a cafe near his home in the Mission. Photo: Streetsblog

Exit Interview: Director Tom Radulovich Reflects on 20 Years with BART

By Roger Rudick | Nov 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

Tom Radulovich, as most Streetsblog readers probably know, is retiring from BART at the end of the year. He was first elected to the BART Board of Directors in November 1996, to represent the 9th District, which includes portions of San Francisco. He serves on the board’s Personnel Review Special Committee and on the Capitol Corridor Joint […]

Two trains pulling into a station in Switzerland under the type of 'pulse' transfer system the California State Transportation Agency wants to emulate. Wikimedia Commons

SPUR Talk: Running Public Transportation Like a Swiss Watch

By Roger Rudick | Nov 16, 2016 | 1 Comment

Yesterday evening, Andrew Nash and Ulrich Leister, transit consultants from Europe, explained to an audience at SPUR’s Oakland location what California needs to do to make its transit and intercity rail as user-friendly as it is in Switzerland and Denmark. “The most important thing is the service,” said Leister a railroad consultant and CEO for […]

San Mateo’s Highway 101/92 Interchange Eyed for Expansion

By Andrew Boone | Nov 15, 2016 | 1 Comment

San Mateo County’s transportation agencies are forging ahead with environmental studies of new lanes, ramps, and overpasses to add to the already massive interchange at Highways 101 and 92 in the city of San Mateo. Building on four previous studies stretching back to 2001, a new $500,000 study completed in June analyzed 25 different traffic […]

Election Reflection: The Bay Area Needs More Bridges to the Rest of America

By Roger Rudick | Nov 10, 2016 | 15 Comments

Streetsblog editors from New York, Washington and Los Angeles have tried to make sense of what happened on Tuesday, and what it means to the livable-streets movement. Much of my family is from Pittsburgh. Like San Francisco, it is a beautiful place, bounded by water, with hills, great, walkable neighborhoods, and bridges. Pennsylvania was a […]

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SPUR talk on Local Measures: BART Bond Passes, Mixed Results on Others

By Roger Rudick | Nov 9, 2016 | No Comments

This afternoon, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), hosted a post-election analysis of local races and measures with political consultants David Latterman of Fall Line Analytics and Alex Clemens of Lighthouse Public Affairs. Clemens started off his presentation and summed up the mood in the room with a single word: “sh*t!” […]

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