Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transit-Oriented Development

Which SF Neighborhoods Have the Strongest Walkable Magnetism?

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 28, 2012 | 5 Comments

Walkability, transit access, good local schools — San Franciscans clamor to live in neighborhoods with features like these. Potrero Hill artist Wendy MacNaughton’s “mental map” of the city lists the strongest qualities of seven areas that stand out for her, among them SoMa’s “best transit access in town” and the “convenient, walkable, easy everything” nature of Lower […]

SF Agencies Take Aim at Bureaucratic Obstacles to a Transit-First City

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 9, 2012 | 14 Comments

San Francisco agencies are developing a wide-ranging program to streamline the funding and construction of improvements for walking, bicycling, and transit. The Transportation Sustainability Program (TSP) would reform the city’s transportation practices in three key areas: by eliminating reliance on the automobile-centric measuring stick known as Level of Service (LOS), by instituting a system of […]

Transit Incentives Can’t Make Up for Parking Glut at Cathedral Hill CPMC

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 22, 2011 | 15 Comments

Nearly 10,000 additional cars [PDF] are predicted to travel every day to the gigantic Cathedral Hill California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) at Van Ness and Geary after it opens in 2016. While the city is negotiating how much the institution will pay to help mitigate the impacts those cars will have on Muni and pedestrian and […]

The Housing-Value Bonus for Rail Transit: 10, 20, Even 50 Percent

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 12, 2011 | No Comments

How much extra would you be willing to pay to live near rail transit? For Minneapolis residents along the Hiawatha rail line, that convenience is worth tacking on an additional 10 percent to housing prices. Chicagoans near the Midway transit line are willing to pay about 19 percent extra. And in Portland, folks are willing […]

State Considers Restricting Parking in Transit Oriented Districts

By Damien Newton | Apr 20, 2011 | No Comments

A.B. 710, the Infill Development and Sustainable Community Act of 2011 introduced by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) would mandate that automobile parking in Transit Oriented Developments be limited to one car per residential unit or per 1,000 square feet of retail space. The Assembly Housing & Community Development Committee is scheduled to hear this legislation […]

BART Riders Now Have a Dignified Walkway at Balboa Park Station

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 18, 2011 | 9 Comments

BART riders will no longer be squeezed alongside Muni tracks to get into Balboa Park Station. A new walkway connecting travelers to Ocean Avenue on the north side was unveiled Friday as one project in a host of efforts aimed at improving access to the busiest BART and Muni transit hub outside of the city’s downtown area, […]

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