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Woman Critical After Being Hit by 92-year-old Driver in Richmond District

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 22, 2011 | 25 Comments

A woman in her 50s suffered “life threatening injuries” this afternoon when she was struck by an SUV being driven by a 92-year-old man in San Francisco’s Richmond District. Transit advocate Sue Vaughan, who lives in the Richmond, tipped us off to the crash on Park Presidio and Anza Street, and sent us the above […]

Opening of SPUR Exhibit: Ocean Beach in context: A second chance for a first look

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2011 | No Comments

From SPUR: New Exhibit at the SPUR Urban Center Gallery! Opening: Tuesday, February 15th, 6:00 p.m. ABOUT THE EXHIBIT SPUR is leading an interagency master planning process for Ocean Beach, to address public access, environmental conservation, and infrastructure in the face of erosion and climate-related sea-level rise. SPUR recently held the first of three public workshops […]

SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Going Dutch: Creating a bicycle-dependent city

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 10, 2011 | No Comments

From SPUR: Join San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Leah Shahum as she shares lessons learned from her eight-month sabbatical in Amsterdam. What can we learn here in San Francisco from the success in bicycling and livability of Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Paris? What are the crucial lessons from Europe as we prepare to pilot bikeshare here in San Francisco? How can we build […]

Today’s Headlines

By Matthew Roth | Dec 10, 2010 | 8 Comments

CA Gets OH and WI High Speed Rail Money (NY Times, SF Gate, KCBS, Fast Lane) Feds Indicate Funds Should Extend Initial Segment to Bakersfield (KALW, Transport Politic, CAHSR Blog) Bicycling Up 58 Percent in San Francisco Since 2006 (SF Gate) Muni Seeks Solution for Short-Turn Runs that Leave Passengers in the Cold (Examiner, SF […]

House Passes Extension of Transportation Reauthorization

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 9, 2010 | No Comments

Remember those heady days in mid-2009, when Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) introduced an ambitious, half-trillion dollar reauthorization that would transform the country’s infrastructure? What the House passed last night, as part of the continuing resolution that will keep the government running at current spending levels through the end of the fiscal year, was no transformational […]

Today’s Headlines

By Matthew Roth | Dec 9, 2010 | 1 Comment

Bay Bridge Construction Timeline Moved Up a Few Months (SF Gate, CBS) Parking Citations Dipped Before Prop B Vote, Cops Feared Angering Voters (SF Examiner) Uncertainty Whether Caltrain Fatality in San Mateo a Suicide (Oak Trib, CBS) MTC Tightens Security Controls on FastTrak (SF Examiner) SFO Commission Says Short Run Cab Incentive Unsafe (CBS) CA […]

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