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Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 6, 2021 | No Comments

More on Plan to End Great Walkway (SFChron, SFExaminer, CBSLocal)
Funds to Reduce Car Pollution (CBSLocal)
Central Subway Testing (ProgressiveRailroading)
Muni Running out of Rescue Money (TheFrisc)
Most Bay Area Companies Don’t Expect Full Return to Office (SFChron)
End of Traditional Workweek (NBCBayArea)
New Crosswalk at Buchanan and Geary (NichiBei)
Newsom Says People Shouldn’t be Living on Streets or Sidewalks (LATimes)
More on Permanent Slow Streets (TheFrisc)
Wildfire Haze Coming to Bay Area (SFChron)
Letters: Explaining Protected Bike Lanes (EastBayTimes)

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San Francisco's Great Highway after it was given the "freeways to boulevard" treatment in April, 2020. Photo: Matt Brezina's twitter

Supes, Mayor, to End Great Walkway

By Roger Rudick | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

Motoring Uber Alles wins again in San Francisco

Usually we do a picture of the interviewee, but James doesn't even have one on the Stop and Move "about me" page. So we'll use the above shot of a mural in Downtown Fresno he took in early 2021.

Meet the Board: Stopping and Moving with James Sinclair

By Damien Newton | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

James Sinclair is the author of the Stop and Move blog on transportation policy in and around Fresno

A closer look at CDOT’s plan to close Chicago’s transportation equity gap

By Sharon Hoyer | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

Last week, the Chicago Department of Transportation released an ambitious, 80-plus page Strategic Plan for Transportation created with input from the Transportation Equity Network, a coalition of 30 civic, community and transportation advocacy organizations, plus help from former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who served as a consultant. The plan, drafted in the height of the pandemic, sets equity and mobility justice as a guiding star and outlines how CDOT can deploy resources to address safety, health, accessibility and environmental concerns for parts of the city most in need, setting one- and three-year benchmarks on dozens of goals.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 5, 2021 | No Comments

Bike/Ped Safety Upgrades Near Future Irvington BART (MercNews)
More on Permanent Slow Streets (SFGate)
Profiles of the Outer Sunset (HereSay)
Polk Gulch Infill (Socketsite)
More on Upcoming Muni Service Changes (MassTransit)
California Could Get Billions in Infrastructure Deal (SFChron)
San Jose Lawmaker Wants to Protect Single-Family Restrictions (SJSpotlight)
Street Trees for the Mission (SFExaminer)
At Least 2,700 S.F. Employees Have Not Been Vaccinated (SFChron)
Balancing Public Health with Economic Recovery (SFExaminer)
Commentary: Questions about SMART Train Freight Service (MarinIJ)

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Cheryl Brinkman in 2018 in Hayes Valley. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Exit Interview with SFMTA Director Cheryl Brinkman

By Roger Rudick | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments

Reflections on 11 years trying to improve transit and make the streets of San Francisco safer

An Oakland ferry. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Streetsblog Is Closing In On Its Summer Fundraising Goal

By Streetsblog Editors | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments

Earlier this summer, Streetsblogs Los Angeles, San Francisco and California launched our annual summer fundraising drive. Since then, we’ve raised over $7,500 in new donors (not including existing monthly donors) which is both 3/4 of our $10,000 goal and more than we’ve ever raised in our summer fundraising drive. If you want to help us […]

OP-ED: Don’t Let Trails Amendment Gut Bike/Walk Funding

By Marisa Jones | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments

Bike and pedestrian advocates should not be fooled by a duplicitous amendment forwarded by Congress.

Active Transportation Advocates See Silver Lining in Infrastructure Bill

By Kea Wilson | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments

A handful of critical policy changes buried in the bipartisan infrastructure megabill may quietly revolutionize life for people who walk and roll through U.S. cities — especially if it's amended to include other progressive items a House bill.

Today’s Headlines

By Roger Rudick | Aug 4, 2021 | No Comments

Best and Worst Bus Stops in S.F. (Citylab)
VTA, San Francisco, Say They’ve Paid for Caltrain (DailyJournal)
More on Return of Cable Cars (SFChron)
Photos of Cable Car’s Return (MercNews)
Slow Streets Here to Stay (SFChron, MissionLocal)
Mission/S. Van Ness Intersection to Close (SFExaminer)
Marin Climate Initiative (MarinIJ)
Small Biz Owners Now Deal with Delta (SFExaminer)
Another Leader Calls for Mandatory Vaccinations of State/City Workers (Berkeleyside)
Commentary: Born in New York, Heart in San Francisco (SFChron)

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Op-ed: The Path Forward for Muni

By Jon Bate | Aug 3, 2021 | No Comments

Supervisors and SFMTA officials need to live up to the rhetoric of "transit first" and "transportation equity" and give buses priority now

The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. Image: City Project, CC

REPORT: Federal Recreational Trails Program Underfunded by $200M+ Per Year

By Kea Wilson | Aug 3, 2021 | No Comments

Gas taxes on off-road recreational vehicles alone bring in three times more federal revenue than is spent building the trails themselves, a new federal study finds — and that’s before factoring in all the money that the users of non-gas-powered vehicles save highway agencies by opting not to drive.

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