Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Funding

Coalition of California Advocates Headed to Sacramento to Save Transit

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 26, 2012 | 3 Comments

Members of a broad coalition hailing from throughout California are headed to Sacramento next week to push policymakers to save transit funding and enact sustainable transportation planning reforms. The Oakland-based transit advocacy group TransForm has amassed about 150 advocates to descend on the capitol for its two-day Transportation Choices Summit, the first known event of its […]

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit

By Egon Terplan | Mar 14, 2012 | 27 Comments

[Editor’s note: This article is re-published with permission from the transit-themed March issue of The Urbanist, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) monthly member magazine. The article, written by SPUR Regional Planning Director Egon Terplan, is based on a discussion paper developed by the SPUR Transportation Policy Board. Read the full paper at spur.org/tsp.] […]

SFMTA Leaning Toward Extended Meter Hours, Away From Fare Hikes

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 7, 2012 | 31 Comments

A picture is forming of how the SFMTA might address its budget shortfalls over the next two years. The SFMTA Board of Directors and an advisory panel of community leaders seem to oppose any further fare hikes or service cuts for Muni riders while mostly favoring extending parking meter hours to nights and Sundays — […]

House Transportation Bill: What’s at Stake for the Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 15, 2012 | No Comments

Reliable transit and safer streets in San Francisco and the Bay Area could be crippled by what U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has called “the worst transportation bill [he’s] ever seen” making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives. As Streetsblog Capitol Hill has been reporting, H.R. 7, the federal transportation bill being pushed by House […]

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 […]

Slow Progress in Curbing SFMTA’s Costly Overtime and Work Orders

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 9, 2011 | 5 Comments

As the SFMTA struggles to provide reliable Muni service, little headway has been made in curbing the amount it spends on staff overtime and work orders issued to other departments. Supervisors David Campos and David Chiu, who held a hearing on both issues yesterday, say the continued the lack of transparency and accountability is frustrating. […]

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