Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Transportation Policy

Nancy Pelosi’s Infrastructure Choices

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 28, 2009 | 5 Comments

Pelosi helps cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Muni’s T-line. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco claims she is committed to public transit and reducing motor vehicle congestion. In a speech to the Regional Plan Association (RPA) last April she said her flagship issues as speaker are energy independence and reducing global […]

Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

One of the unintended consequences of San Francisco’s bicycle injunction, which Rob Anderson and fellow NIMBYs will likely rue for some time to come, is the arduous thought and labor that advocates and professional planners have invested in doing away with LOS all together. Two arguments in the debate over LOS have emerged. One […]

Two Action Alerts to Improve Stimulus Package for Transit Today

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 7 Comments

Which one gets the stimulus money? NACTO Action Alert We’ve all been disappointed with the tiny margin of transit funding in the $825 billion Obama stimulus package, what amounts to only 1% of the total, despite the fact that 80% of us live in metropolitan regions and transit ridership is booming. Meanwhile highway expansion and […]

Have Your Say on How to Spend $226 Billion Over the Next 25 Years

By Janel Sterbentz | Jan 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo by Barrie Rokeach (Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved) By 2035 the Bay Area is expected to grow by 25 percent — 2 million new residents. Auto trips will increase even faster, by 32 percent, delaying vehicles an additional 135 percent, and increasing particulate matter emissions up to 30 percent. Traffic congestion in the region […]

Mission Greenbelt Zig-Zags Across the Neighborhood

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 22, 2009 | No Comments

Amber Hasselbring is the instigator of a lovely effort in San Francisco’s Mission District, aptly named the Mission Greenbelt Project. The plan is to create a connective corridor of native plants to serve as wildlife habitat between Dolores Park (Dolores and 19th streets) and Franklin Square Park (Bryant and 17th streets). The first planting was […]

Disabilities Advocates Launch Campaign to End Sidewalk Parking

By Matthew Roth | Jan 16, 2009 | 7 Comments

Supervisor Carmen Chu and representatives from Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired demonstrate the hazards of sidewalk parking and broken paving stones. The Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, the Independent Living Resource Center and the Senior Action Network launched a new campaign with Supervisor Carmen Chu today to draw attention to illegal […]

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