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Dutch Cycling Embassy Releases Inspirational Video, Launches Website

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 27, 2011 | 16 Comments

Cycling For Everyone from Dutch Cycling Embassy on Vimeo. Last week, a team of Dutch experts led a series of Think Bike workshops in four U.S. cities, including San Francisco, to help advocates and planners design the bike infrastructure of the future. Cities across the globe continue to look to the Netherlands for inspiration, and […]

Dancers Bust Some Sweet Moves on Muni, BART

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 23, 2011 | 1 Comment

I thought we’d get you in the mood for the weekend by leaving you with this fun video via Muni Diaries. Isn’t it sweet? From the YouTube description: This is a collaboration between Neverstop and YAK FILMS to remix an old school black and white dance video from the Underground in London into a new […]

Tepid Response from SFMTA, Mayor on Car-Free Market Resolution

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 23, 2011 | 13 Comments

In a unanimous vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week passed Supervisor and mayoral candidate David Chiu’s resolution calling on the SFMTA to initiate more pilot projects on Market Street to further restrict private auto traffic and make it car-free on a trial basis in advance of the 2015 redesign. The 11 votes […]

Mica, GOP Leadership Looking to Raise Transportation Spending Levels in Bill

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 23, 2011 | No Comments

According to yet another great report from Jeff Davis at Transportation Weekly, House Republican leadership has given House Transportation Committee Chair John Mica permission to seek additional revenues to fund the transportation reauthorization at levels $15 billion higher than initially proposed. One Republican source, quoted in Transportation Weekly, said that given the persistently high unemployment […]

Think Bike Workshops Offer a “Dutch Touch” on Three Key Corridors

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

The delegation of Dutch experts who were in San Francisco this week for a series of Think Bike workshops with city officials, bike advocates, transportation planners and others honed in on three critical corridors: Market Street between 5th and 9th, Polk Street between Broadway and Union streets, and The Wiggle. What resulted from the day-long […]

Supervisor Avalos Introduces Landmark Bicycle Access Legislation

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 21, 2011 | 13 Comments

Groundbreaking legislation introduced by Supervisor and mayoral candidate John Avalos yesterday would allow the thousands of people who pedal to work in San Francisco to bring their bikes into the office. The “Bicycle Access and Safety Ordinance” [pdf] would require the owners and managers of all commercial buildings to allow bikes in the building if […]

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