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M-Ocean View Subway: Is this Project Really About Trains?

By Roger Rudick | Jun 6, 2016 | 92 Comments

Thursday, SFMTA joined several agencies at the Bay Area 2040 open house in Oakland. One of the projects presented was the M-Ocean View improvement plan. As the Examiner reported today, SFMTA is now leaning towards an all-underground option, with a tunnel stretching from West Portal to Parkmerced. This project, at around $3 billion, would re-align the […]

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Bay Area 2040: Envisioning the Future of the Bay Area

By Roger Rudick | Jun 3, 2016 | 1 Comment

Who says you can’t have everything? Well, when it comes to transportation infrastructure and planning, economics and tax payers do, for starters. But Thursday evening’s Plan Bay Area 2040 open house wasn’t about holding back. Instead, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) asked the public to chime in […]

SF Budget: Better Muni and Vision Zero…But November Tax Has to Pass

By Roger Rudick | Jun 1, 2016 | 11 Comments

San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee released his 455-page budget proposal on Tuesday. It includes $9.6 billion in fiscal year 2016-17 for transportation, police officers, and street cleaning, a $700 million increase in funds. The fiscal year runs from July 1 of this year until June 30 of next year. The transportation section runs from pages […]

A Safer Masonic on the Way

By Roger Rudick | May 26, 2016 | 11 Comments

Wednesday evening some 130 local residents and other interested parties dropped in at the San Francisco Day School to learn about the construction phase of SFMTAs Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project. To quote SFMTA’s own release about the project: With construction starting in June 2016, the Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project is an effort to improve safety for […]

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SFSU Students Study How to Un-Suck Biking to BART

By Roger Rudick | May 25, 2016 | 18 Comments

Professor Jason Henderson’s “Bicycle Geographies” class wants the ride from Daily City BART to San Francisco State University’s campus to be comfortable and fun. And why shouldn’t it be? After all, it’s only a 1.6 mile trip that should take even a novice cyclist about 15 minutes. Given the proximity to BART, this should be a […]

Northern California High-Speed Rail Scoping Meeting

By Roger Rudick | May 24, 2016 | 30 Comments

Monday evening the California High Speed Rail Authority, in conjunction with Caltrain, held a scoping meeting at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF in Mission Bay. They answered public questions and took comment on plans to electrify Caltrain and bring high-speed trains from Bakersfield to San Francisco by 2029. Streetsblog readers will recall that […]

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