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Today’s Headlines

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2013 | 9 Comments

Man Biking on Sidewalk Seriously Injures Woman on Market Near Stockton Street (SF Appeal, SFist) Muni Riders Are Jumping Off Moving Buses (SFGate, SF Examiner, KTVU) Inflation-Adjusted Muni Fare Hike Goes Into Effect July 1 (SF Examiner) Market Street Bike Counter Tallied 54,000 Bikes in First Month (SFGate) Design Competition Launches for Taking Down 280, Re-Configuring Caltrain Route […]

The Big Leap from Car-Lite to Car-Free

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 30, 2013 | No Comments

While owning a car is a massive financial burden, economic incentives can still get in the way of the transition from car ownership to living car-free, even if you already don’t drive much. As Shane Phillips at Network blog Better Institutions explains today, it’s a classic problem of “sunk costs”: When someone is interested in […]

Bike to School Week Family Ride: Sunday Street

By Lisa Ratner | Apr 8, 2013 | No Comments

From SFBC: Bike to School Week Family Ride: Sunday Streets Sun., Apr. 14 | 11:30AM-1PM | Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 School, 3351 – 23rd St. Getting ready for Bike to School Week and eager to try biking with your kids, but not feeling up to doing it alone? We’ll get you and family ready […]

Advocates: San Mateo County Needs Full-Time Bike/Ped Coordinator

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 1, 2012 | 1 Comment

Margaret Pye has been bike commuting from San Carlos to her job at a law firm in Palo Alto for the past 10 years. Pedaling home on Middlefield Road through Menlo Park and Atherton, there are bike lanes, but when she gets to North Fair Oaks in unincorporated San Mateo County, the bike lanes suddenly […]

A Critical Change in Leadership Faces San Mateo County’s Planning Agency

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 30, 2012 | 5 Comments

As San Mateo County’s congestion management agency, the City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG), is supposed to be responsible for reducing auto congestion. It also controls the purse strings on transportation projects, doling out millions of dollars in state and federal grants to the region’s 20 cities, whose appointed representatives make up the agency’s governing board. “It […]

Today’s Headlines

By Robert Prinz | Oct 26, 2012 | 11 Comments

Muni Ridership Up Over 200 Percent for World Series Games (CityInsider) More on Supe Avalos’ Proposed Permits, Fees for Private Shuttles Using Muni Stops (SFGate) SFExam: Free Muni for Youth Plan is Best Use of One-Time MTC Funds SFPD Officers Allegedly Beat, Jail Well-Known Cyclist for Attempting to Observe Arrest (Uptown Almanac) Bay Bridge Construction […]

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