Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit

The Taraval Boarding Island Question: Q&A with Katy Tang

By Roger Rudick | May 17, 2016 | 33 Comments

Last week, Streetsblog brought you an editorial from Katy Tang about the issue of installing concrete boarding islands on Taraval as part of SFMTA’s Muni Forward project. This was in response to a headline in the SF Examiner, that declared “Supervisor Slams Brakes on L-Taraval Changes.” As Streetsblog readers may recall, business owners were pushing […]

SF Celebrates Bike to Work Day

By Roger Rudick | May 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

San Francisco has come a long way. That was the theme of a rousing speech delivered by Margaret McCarthy, Interim Executive Director of the SF Bicycle Coalition, at a ceremony this morning in front of San Francisco City Hall. “We’ve seen a 184 percent increase in cycling in the past decade,” she said with her […]

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L-Taraval and the Concrete Boarding Island Question

By Roger Rudick | May 9, 2016 | 25 Comments

Back in February, Streetsblog reported on one of three meetings about SFMTA’s planned “Muni Forward” improvements to the L-Taraval line. Since then, SFMTA has held various smaller meetings with local stakeholders, confirmed SFMTA. But rumors have grown that, under the direction of Supervisor Katy Tang, the SFMTA was backing off safety improvements, such as adding […]

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SF Bicycle Coalition’s “Bike Talks” Series

By Roger Rudick | May 3, 2016 | 2 Comments

Monday evening, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition held the second of its first three scheduled “Bike Talks,” a series it plans to continue to foster discussion and help shape its advocacy. Here’s how the SFBC describes the meetings: Here at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, we know our members love to dig deep on the […]

A Look at Proposed BART Improvements in November 2016 Ballot Measure

By Roger Rudick | May 2, 2016 | 21 Comments

If passed by the BART Board this summer, the November ballot will have a $3 billion-plus bond on it to help BART upgrade its infrastructure, including about $400 million for new train controls and signals. BART’s communications staff released some graphics to help voters understand exactly how much additional capacity that will buy, and what […]

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San Francisco Needs to Get Out of the Car Storage Business

By Roger Rudick | Apr 28, 2016 | 35 Comments

Marco Salsiccia is a blind resident of the Sunset District. Last month, while stepping off an L-Taraval train at a stop without a boarding island, he got his cane stuck in the wheel well of a car as it illegally passed the train. His cane snapped in two. The motorist stopped briefly and then took […]

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