Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Policy

Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices

By Matthew Roth | Feb 12, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s (MTC) main auditorium in Oakland was standing-room-only Wednesday for an Allocations Committee meeting where the MTC board debated proposals by staff on how to spend the expected stimulus money when President Obama signs the bill into law. MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger explained the need to get the discussion started even […]

Two-Way Hayes Extension is a Step Closer, Though Obstacles Remain

By Matthew Roth | Feb 9, 2009 | 10 Comments

Cars whipping around the corner of Gough and Hayes, where pedestrians can only cross three ways There was widespread government and public support for a two-way, traffic-calmed Hayes Street between Gough and Franklin at the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting today, but there is a fundamental disagreement with the MTA […]

Advocates Ask Supes to Support a Two-Way Hayes

By Matthew Roth | Feb 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Advocates are calling for all livable streets supporters who have the time to turn out to the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting today at 1pm to voice their support for a two-way Hayes Street, as was called for in the Market and Octavia Plan. In 2007, the Hayes Valley Neighborhood […]

Will Senator Boxer Give in to Global-Warming-a-Hoax Inhofe on Stimulus?

By Matthew Roth | Feb 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

Inhofe takes aim at transit funding A $5.5 billion discretionary fund for transit projects is in danger of being handed over to the highway lobby by Senators James Inhofe, Kit Bond, and Max Baucus. Inhofe you will recall is the former Chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee who boasted in 2005, […]

State Legislators Urge Pelosi To Put More Transit Money in Stimulus

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 30, 2009 | 3 Comments

A group of eighteen Assembly members, including Assemblymen Tom Ammiano of San Francisco and Alberto Torrico of Newark, have sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging more stimulus money for public transit, suggesting the change be made during the markup process before the bill is voted on by the Senate next week. We […]

Paradise LOSt (Part III): California’s Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis

By Matthew Roth | Jan 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Transportation consultants and planners associated with the San Francisco Transportation Authority’s (TA) ATG working group sent excited bursts of email to each other earlier this month about a new development coming from the state Office of Planning and Research (OPR), the body responsible for writing and amending the CEQA guidelines related to transportation and traffic. […]

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