This Week: J.F.K., Board Meeting, Treasure Island
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Here is a list of events this week.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Is Crime Slowing Return to Transit? (NYTimes)
- Should You Still Mask on Transit? (CapRadio, PhillyVoice)
- $1.6 Billion More Needed for Overbuilt BART Extension (MercNews)
- Both “Sides” of Closing J.F.K. Promenade (48Hills)
- More Streets Approved for Speed Reductions (SFBay)
- Speed Cameras Have Support (EastBayTimes)
- More on Battery Bluff Park (SFGate, SFExaminer)
- Cities Growing into Mega Regions (Governing)
- North San Rafael Bike Path (MarinIJ)
- Could Interest Rates Cool Housing Market? (EastBayTimes)
- Crime Fears Slow Plans to Restore Oakland Staircases (CBSLocal)
- Trucker Convoy Finds Oakland/Berkeley Streets Unreceptive (SFGate)
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Earth Day: 52 Years of Individual Environmental Action Hasn’t Fixed It
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The issues Earth Day calls us to pay attention to have not changed much since 1970. And the fight to hold polluters accountable is a long, long way from being won.
Battery Bluff: San Francisco’s New Park
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Plus some Streetsblog grousing about a massive, missed opportunity
Two Big Reasons States Keep Expanding Freeways
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Highway widening advocates offer up a kind of manifest destiny storyline: population and traffic are ever-increasing, and unless we accommodate them we’ll be awash in cars, traffic and gridlock. The rising tide of cars is treated as a irresistible force of nature. But is it?
Talking Headways Podcast: Lighting the Way for Pedestrians
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In their new book, "Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians," Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger talk about creating legible nighttime spaces, programming those spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Disease Dangers of Public Transit vs. Cabs vs. Planes (NPR)
- Masks aren’t Optional for the Vulnerable (KQED)
- More on BART’s Mask Mandate (CBSLocal)
- SMART Aims to Boost Ridership (MarinIJ)
- What Matt Haney’s Win Means for Housing (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- Stop Letting Screamy People Jam up Housing, Infrastructure (Atlantic)
- Breakdown of Bay Area Air Quality (SFChron)
- Slick Roads in Bay Area (SFChron)
- Future of Hydrogen for Power (VOX)
- Commentary: People Don’t Want to go Back to the Office (SFChron)
- Commentary: Let’s Hear it for YIMBYs (SFExaminer)
- Commentary: Riding a Bike in America Should Not be This Dangerous (NYTimes)
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Survey Time in Alameda and Berkeley
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Plus Fremont votes for traffic violence on this three-for Thursday
What’s In the US DOT ‘Equity Action Plan’
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A new federal action plan to advance "equity" in the transportation realm includes concrete commitments to reform a transportation network that too often disenfranchises marginalized people — but it doesn't go far enough, some say.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- BART Mask Policy is Confusing, Board Member Wants to Reinstate (SFChron, SFGate)
- New Editors of Muni Diaries (MuniDiaries)
- Moving Homes to Save them from Sea Level Rise (SFChron)
- Fremont City Council Votes in Favor of Traffic Violence (EastBayTimes)
- Battery Bluff Set to Open in Presidio (SFChron)
- Oakland’s ‘Map Atlas’ (Oaklandside)
- Kiosks Coming to Oakland Streets (Oaklandside)
- Berkeley Community Garden Gifted to Ohlone Land Trust (Berkeleyside)
- Commentary: Oakland A’s Stadium Should be Put on the Ballot (EastBayTimes)
- Commentary: Keep Wearing Your Mask on Planes (and Trains) (WashPost)
- Commentary: S.F. Needs its Community Events (SFChron)
- Commentary: Matt Haney is YIMBY (SFChron)
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Congrats to Matt Haney
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The politician who expanded protected bike lanes across SoMa crushes rival in assembly runoff
Study: Car Ownership Doesn’t Always Cut Black Workers’ Commutes
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It still takes Black workers 22 minutes longer to get to work every week than their White counterparts — it's probably not possible to speed up those commutes in urban areas with automotive strategies alone.