Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Policy

A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard

By Matthew Roth | Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Eisenhower signing the 1956 Highway Act Far be it from us to take political sides on Livable Streets issues–you don’t have to be a donkey or an elephant to appreciate pedestrian safety, traffic calming, and quality public space–but why is it that two of the best columns connecting transportation policy reform, land use, and energy […]

Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2009 | 6 Comments

Advocates packed the MTC hearing room Transportation and social justice advocates packed the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) board meeting today to demand that the agency not spend a proposed $70 million of federal stimulus money on the Oakland Airport Connector (OAC) project. MTC commissioners heard testimony for over two hours from some of the more […]

Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector

By Matthew Roth | Feb 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

How will you get to the Oakland Airport in 5 years? The debate over how to spend the federal transportation stimulus money at the regional level is heating up and may boil over tomorrow morning at the next Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) meeting. As we reported here two weeks ago, the nine-county Bay Area will […]

What’s Next for the TEP?

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 23, 2009 | 16 Comments

Can the TEP transform Muni, dramatically improving its reliability and on-time performance? Bashing Muni, an agency that has been historically underfunded, is a San Francisco pastime. Riders are used to break downs, delays and general unreliability. Could all that be about to change? After an arduous process of gathering ridership data, community input, and considering […]

The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers

By Matthew Roth | Feb 20, 2009 | 25 Comments

A valuable sidewalk, but parking should be removed and the sidewalk widened to accommodate pedestrians and meet ADA requirements. As we wrote a couple days ago about Jefferson Street, merchants on the commercial street there and throughout the city often assume parking spaces in front of their stores are vital to business, that their customers […]

Obama Calls For Better Regional Planning Measures in TEA Reauthorization

By Matthew Roth | Feb 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

The vision of an unsustainable land use and transportation future File the following in the "Can’t Believe My President Gets It" category. In an interview with columnists last week on Air Force One, President Obama drew a clear link between regional planning, land use, transportation, and energy policy, implying that bad planning has led to […]

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