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State Democrats Unveil Green Economic Stimulus Plan for California

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

In response to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to gut environmental regulations for highway projects in California, Democratic leaders in the Legislature have unveiled their own green economic stimulus plan. The legislation by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass does not identify specific projects but "will accelerate over $2 billion in […]

299 Valencia Appeal Fails As Swing Vote Dufty Sides with Developer

By Matthew Roth | Jan 14, 2009 | 6 Comments

The future home of 299 Valencia will have more parking than the neighborhood plan allows of right The Board of Supervisors, in one the first tests of the new progressive bloc, failed to muster a supermajority vote to support an appeal that would have overturned the Planning Commission’s approval of a conditional use (CU) permit, […]

Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics

By Matthew Roth | Jan 7, 2009 | 1 Comment

Governor Schwarzenegger sent a letter Tuesday to President-elect Obama encouraging massive expenditure in the federal stimulus package on a host of projects in California. The letter comes a month after the governor and president-elect discussed the stimulus package in person: When we met, I had identified $28 billion in infrastructure projects ready to break ground […]

SF’s Parking Experiment to Test Shoup’s Traffic Theories

By Matthew Roth | Jan 6, 2009 | 3 Comments

SF Park Pilot Areas – Richmond and West Portal control areas not featured The Municipal Transportation Agency’s federally-funded parking experiment, SFPark, is shaping up to be the most powerful tool remaining in the city’s traffic-busting toolbox considering the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s criticism of congestion pricing and Mayor Newsom’s recent tempered support for the […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 5: Wrap-Up

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 24, 2007 | 1 Comment

Thanks all for reading and commenting on our non-motorized honeymoon travel series (see parts 1, 2, 3 and 4). Below is a table Susan put together to briefly summarize some of our observations on the cities we visited. Transit Bike Accesibity Amtrak Station Street life and art Chicago Loop El made all connections we […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 20, 2007 | 44 Comments

My wife and I were married last month in Brooklyn. For our honeymoon, we wanted to see as many great American cities as we could. In 19 days of travel, we visited Chicago, Seattle, Portland (Ore.), San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans (and also stopped briefly in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia). How could two people as obsessed as […]

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