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Chicago Offers Free Rides on 1st Day of School, Muni pilots All-Year Free for Youth

By John Greenfield | Aug 13, 2021 | No Comments

Launching a free fares pilot for schoolchildren would be a great way to start improving transportation equity in Chicago, helping us catch up with peer cities that are way ahead of us in that department.

The Great Walkway from the air. Image: Great Highway Park on Instagram

Fight is On to Save Great Walkway

By Kea Wilson | Aug 13, 2021 | No Comments

San Francisco activists are fighting their city’s decision to allow high-speed vehicle traffic back onto a road that was transformed into a beloved public park during the pandemic — and the legal mechanism they’re using to do it could be a blueprint for advocates across the country fighting to keep their own COVID-era street improvements.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 13, 2021 | No Comments

Transit Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise (SFGate)
S.F. Public Works Official Moving to BART (SFChron)
San Rafael Transit Center Relocation Project (MarinIJ)
Transit to 49ers Games (Patch)
SamTrans Fare Reduction Programs (Climate)
SFMTA Tests Battery Electric Buses (SFWeekly)
More Poor Air Quality (SFGate)
Oakland Motorist Charged with Intentionally Running Down Pedestrians (EastBayTimes)
Senator Wiener Supports Housing (48Hills)
Climate Event in San Mateo’s Central Park (DailyJournal)
Introducing the ‘Streatery’ (WSJ)
Letters: Can we Get Rid of Overpowered, Oversized SUVs? (EastBayTimes)

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High-speed Rail construction of the Cedar Viaduct in Fresno County. Photo: CAHSRA

‘Amtrak Joe’ Wants His High-Speed Rail

By Roger Rudick | Aug 12, 2021 | No Comments

California's electrified, high-speed train project gets closer to reality with billions in federal dollars on the way

A Tesla driver parks in an unprotected bike lane. Image: Bike Lane Uprising

To Solve the Climate Crisis, We Need to Drive A Lot Less — And Drive Electric

By Matthew Lewis | Aug 12, 2021 | No Comments

The deadly heat waves, epic floods, and worsening droughts around the world are forcing a reckoning on climate change. We messed up, badly, and the earth’s rapidly destabilizing climate system is the consequence.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 12, 2021 | No Comments

Rail Advocates Say Infrastructure Bill is Not Enough (TheHill)
Access to Essential Jobs Improved (MassTransit)
AC Transit to New Alameda Ferry Terminal (EastBayTimes)
VTA Has Toxic Work Environment? (SJSpotlight)
Open Streets Battles, Coast to Coast (Nextcity)
CHP to Help Enforce Traffic Laws in Oakland (SFChron)
How to Make Parklets Pretty (SFExaminer)
Proposal to Limit Parking at S.J. Developments (ABC7)
Smoke Conditions Return (SFChron)
Berkeley Moves Towards Vax Mandate for City Workers (Berkeleyside)
Commentary: Enough Renderings, Start Building San Jose’s New Downtown (EastBayTimes)

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One of Oakland's 'slow streets,' at Shafter and 42nd. Photo: OakDOT

SPUR Talk: Streets after the Pandemic

By Roger Rudick | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

Will the progress on our streets survive the COVID crisis once it's finally, fully over?

Advocates mourned a disappointing infrastructure bill that would put way more construction barriers on newly-expanded highways than barrier-protected bike lanes in cities and towns. Image: NC DOT, cc

‘Very Flawed’ Infrastructure Bill Passes Senate, Imperfect Reconciliation Bill Looms

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

The massive infrastructure bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday won't meet the challenges of ending climate change and the U.S. traffic violence crisis, leaving core elements of those critical agendas up to a messy House debate, advocates said.

A Round and a Roundy: The One Upside of Climate Change

By Streetsblog Editors | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

Like everyone else who cares about the future of human civilization on this planet, our editorial cartoonist Bill Roundy was horrified, scared and angered by the recent United Nations report suggesting that humanity now has the narrowest of windows to act if it is to survive human-induced global warming.

Mount Vernon Bike Path in Arlington, Va. Image: <a href=COVID may have sparked a bike boom across America, but in one city, the biggest and safest explosions specifically happened on paths protected from drivers — and U.S. communities should prioritize building more of them, even if the Delta variant doesn't send the U.S. back into lockdown soon, a new study suggests. Image: Walk Arlington

Study: Protected Bike Paths Saved Lives During COVID

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

COVID sparked a bike boom across America, but a new study of one Virginia city shows that communities who prioritized building protected bike paths saved the most lives – and would have done so with or without the virus.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

City Prepares to Turn Great Walkway Back Over to Speeding Motorists (SFChron)
Bay Area’s Hottest July Ever (SFChron)
More on Infrastructure Bill (NYTimes, EastBayTimes)
Developer Circumvents S.F. NIMBYs (SFChron)
VTA Will Bus 49ers’ Fans (EastBayTimes)
Post-COVID Traffic Clogged Suburbs (CSM)
101 Bus Lane in Marin Could Ease Commutes (MarinIJ)
Oakland Chinatown Urges ‘State of Emergency’ (SFChron)
Commentary: Infrastructure Bill Still Full of Regressive Project Funding (SFChron)
Commentary: Do San Franciscans Want to Live on Slow Streets? (SFExaminer)
Commentary: Bay Area Needs to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning (EastBayTimes)

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It’s Lobbyists and Electeds Marring our Streets and Public Process, Not Activists

By Roger Rudick | Aug 10, 2021 | No Comments

Let's stop obscuring the fact that the De Young is funding a well-documented campaign to keep J.F.K. Drive as a surface-level freeway

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