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This Week: Bridging the Transit and Housing Funding Gap

By Streetsblog | Oct 6, 2014 | No Comments

A Thursday forum, organized by the SF Transit Riders Union and the SF Bay Guardian, is sure to bring some insightful discussion on the funding tussle between transit and affordable housing advocates. The Planning Department will also present conceptual designs for eastern Ocean Avenue on Thursday, and Sunday Streets Berkeley will return this weekend. Here are […]

This Week: Safer Market Street

By Stan Parkford | Sep 29, 2014 | No Comments

Tuesday is packed with important meetings about making biking and walking safer and more convenient. The first Safer Market Street meeting will preview Vision Zero improvements to SF’s premier street. Across town, long-awaited preferred designs for the Marina Path will be unveiled. Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday: SFMTA staff needs public input […]

This Week: Park(ing) Day and a Fundraiser to Fight Prop L

By Streetsblog | Sep 15, 2014 | 1 Comment

Lots of good stuff this week, including a fundraiser for the campaign against Prop L tomorrow and the return of Park(ing) Day at the end of the week. Here are all of this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday: SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin will join a Middle Polk Neighborhood Association meeting to discuss the transit funding initiatives on the […]

This Week: Tell Supes to Hold Developers to the Transbay Plan

By Streetsblog | Sep 8, 2014 | No Comments

Tomorrow, the Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a development tax to help fund the Caltrain/high-speed rail extension to the Transbay Transit Center, but could reduce the rate for developers and slash revenue for the project. You can help ensure this crucial regional transit connection gets completed by telling the supes to stick with […]

This Week: SFTRU Bar Crawl, Celebrating Amelie Le Moullac

By Streetsblog | Aug 11, 2014 | 2 Comments

Join the SF Transit Riders Union Thursday for a pub-crawl-via-Muni fundraiser. The SFMTA will also hold a public hearing on Friday for street safety improvements on Columbus Avenue, Bay Street, and more. A celebration will also be held Saturday for Amelie Le Moullac’s life, one year after she died in a SoMa truck crash. Here are all […]

SFMTA Engineering Hearing

By Stan Parkford | Aug 10, 2014 | No Comments

From SFMTA: The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is a package of transit and pedestrian safety improvements. To implement the full benefits of the project, sidewalk and roadway reconfigurations will be necessary, including proposed parking changes and left turn restrictions. The SFMTA is taking the required legislation to public hearing. Parking is proposed […]

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