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Update on BART Work Between Glen Park and Daly City

By Roger Rudick | Sep 6, 2016 | 1 Comment

While the rest of the Bay Area was heading to the beach this Labor Day weekend, BART was working around the clock between Glen Park and Daly City, repairing tracks and switches. This was the fourth weekend closure necessary for the work. As before, bus bridges were provided between Daly City, Balboa Park and Glen […]

SFMTA Wants Your Help Planning San Francisco’s Subway Future

By Roger Rudick | Aug 19, 2016 | 6 Comments

Now’s your chance to go full transit geek. SFMTA has launched its “Subway Vision” web page as a first step in developing a long-range transportation plan for the next fifty years. Or as they explained it in their release: We want you to help draw the San Francisco subway map of the future. We’ve teamed […]

Guest Editorial: Eisenhower’s Parking Policies No Longer Work for San Francisco

By Tom Radulovich and Nick Josefowitz | Aug 19, 2016 | 132 Comments

The last time San Francisco looked comprehensively at how we plan for parking, Eisenhower was president, gas was 25 cents a gallon, and we hadn’t even started building BART. It was an era when cities came to be dominated by drive-ins and drive-thrus, when streetcar lines were were being torn up, and new freeways were […]

Streetsblog Talks with Jeff Tumlin About Oakland’s Transportation Future

By Roger Rudick | Aug 18, 2016 | 10 Comments

Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal and Director of Strategy at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, has until early next year to put together a Transportation Department, pretty much from scratch, for the City of Oakland. “A better Oakland starts with better streets today, in every part of our city,” said Mayor Libby Schaaf, in a prepared announcement. “We need a world-class […]

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Panel Asks: How do We Get More Diversity in Bike Advocacy?

By Roger Rudick | Aug 17, 2016 | 31 Comments

Yesterday evening, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) held a discussion about diversity as part of its “Bike Talks” series at the Sports Basement Grotto on Bryant Street. Janice Li, Advocacy Director for SFBC, moderated a panel comprised of Lateefah Simon, President of the Akonadi Foundation, Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the Los Angeles County […]

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Streetsblog Talks with Scott Wiener

By Roger Rudick | Aug 15, 2016 | 31 Comments

On Friday, Streetsblog caught up with District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. Readers may recall that Streetsblog last interviewed the then newly re-elected chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority back in January. Since that interview, much has changed. The mayor has a new Executive Directive on Vision Zero, a new city sales tax initiative is […]

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