Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

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Subway Metadata Master Plan

By Roger Rudick | Oct 18, 2016 | 58 Comments

Yesterday afternoon the Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors heard a presentation from transportation officials on efforts to design a “Subway Master Plan,” a long-range blueprint for a subway network for San Francisco. From a release on the meeting from Supervisor Scott Wiener’s office: Today at the Land Use […]

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Public Gets a Look at BART’s Future

By Roger Rudick | Oct 17, 2016 | 20 Comments

Yesterday afternoon, some 1,600 people braved the rain to check out BART’s new rolling stock at an open-house at MacArthur Station in Oakland. BART is doing a total of four open houses. The first one was Saturday, in Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre Station. From the BART web page: The Fleet of the Future is closer than […]

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Ballot Primer for an Election that Will Drive You to Drink

By Roger Rudick | Oct 12, 2016 | 11 Comments

Yesterday evening, over 220 people squeezed into the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) downtown S.F. location to hear the organization’s policy experts explain which ballot measures they are endorsing. With 25 measures on the San Francisco ballot this November 8, each of the six SPUR experts spent just a few minutes on […]

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Rail~Volution: All-Things-Rail Conference Comes to San Francisco

By Roger Rudick | Oct 11, 2016 | 12 Comments

Some 1,200 planners, engineers, managers and transit journalists crowded into the San Francisco Hyatt Regency this week for the Rail~Volution conference. From the conference press release: The…conference brings together thought leaders and innovators to discuss the relationship between public transit and land-use, examine best practices in transit-oriented development, and look at how to maintain diversity […]

Endorsement: Reinvest for a Safe and Reliable BART

By The Yes on RR Campaign and StreetsblogSF | Oct 10, 2016 | 31 Comments

Streetsblog San Francisco recommends a yes vote on Measure RR, the $3.5 billion bond measure to keep BART safe and reliable. Measure RR will replace and repair the core infrastructure of BART by upgrading its 1960s train-control system, renewing existing stations, replacing over 90 miles of worn-down rails, improving electrical power systems, and enhancing BART’s […]

SPUR Talk: High-Speed Rail on its Way to Northern California

By Roger Rudick | Sep 28, 2016 | 79 Comments

High-Speed Rail construction is well underway in the Central Valley, said Ben Tripousis, Northern California Regional Director for the California High Speed Rail Authority, during a forum at the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) Mission Street center. “The High-Speed Rail question has shifted from ‘if’ to ‘when,'” he told the packed house at today’s […]

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