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What’s So Scary About Bicycle Infrastructure?

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Better bicycle infrastructure is no threat to trucks. (Photo: Wayan Vota via Flickr) Statements made by U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood in recent weeks — including one regarding "the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized" — have gotten a lot of favorable coverage from members of the Streetsblog Network. But they’ve […]

Today’s Headlines

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MTA Board Will Consider How to Spend $36 Million in State Funds (Examiner) Muni Surveillance Cameras Help Capture Assault Suspect (BCN via Appeal) AC Transit Service Cuts Go Into Effect Over Weekend (KCBS, SF Gate) Argument on AC Transit Bus Ends in Fatal Shooting (SF Gate) Golden Gate Transit to Face Service Cuts, Changes (KCBS) […]

Today’s Headlines

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BART Officer Involved in Oscar Grant Case Fired (Merc, CBS, CoCo Times, SF Gate) BART Director Wants To Preserve Convenience at Parking Lots (SF Gate) MTA Removes Traffic Cops from Market St., Occasional Spot Checks by PD (SF Gate) Muni Safety Chief Leaving for Post at Washington DC Transit Operator (SF Gate) Opposing Media Accounts […]

Revisiting the Idea of a Bicycle Tax

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The city of Tucson has some nice-looking bicycle infrastructure. Now the City Council is looking at imposing bike registration fees, even though the system wouldn’t even pay for itself. (Photo: Steven Vance via Flickr) Two different methods of making bicycle riders pay for roads came over the feed on the Streetsblog Network over the last […]