This Week: Transportation Tax, Phone Banking, Candidate Forum
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Here is a list of events this week.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Caltrain Electrification Costs Go Up (DailyJournal)
- Supes Call on Muni to Restore Bayshore Express (48Hills, CBSLocal, SFBay)
- More on New Muni Seats (SFBay)
- How Street Closures Have Changed City Life (SFChron)
- Street Safety Project in North Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
- 40 Percent of S.F. Traffic Deaths are From Left Turns (FastCompany)
- More on Emeryville Bike/Ped Bridge (Evilleeye)
- S.F. at Heart of California Housing Dysfunction (SFChron)
- Safe Site for R.V.s (NextCity)
- Marin Sets Strategy for Housing Mandate (MarinIJ)
- Letters: Why is it Legal to Sell Cars that go Over 85 mph? (EastBayTimes)
- Letters: Don’t Ignore Discriminatory Housing (SFChron)
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Emeryville Bike and Ped Bridge Is Finished!
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It's rare that the Bay Area opens a piece of serious bike and pedestrian infrastructure, but the new South Bayfront Pedestrian Bridge is one. And it's gorgeous.
San Diego Forward Offers a Vision of What a Transportation System Could Be
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SANDAG's board will decide on December 10 whether they agree with that vision
Today’s Headlines
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- Push to Restore Bus Lines (SFBay)
- Update on Caltrain Governance Talks (DailyJournal)
- How to Get Around San Francisco (TheTravel)
- Delays to West Oakland BART Housing (SFChron)
- Financial District Architecture (SFChron)
- Injured Cyclist in Berkeley was Doored (Berkeleyside)
- A Guide to Golden Gate Park’s Best-Kept Secrets (SFChron)
- Bay Area’s Prettiest Light Displays (SFChron)
- Holiday Lighting in Golden Gate Park (Hoodline)
- Commentary: The Potential of San Francisco Streets (SFExaminer)
- Commentary: S.F. is Failing the Tenderloin (SFChron)
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San Francisco Vows to End Parking at Transit Stops
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolved unanimously this week to stop allowing motorists to park in bus stops
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure
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This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.
STUDY: Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths Every Year — And Not Just in Crashes
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If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds — and not just in traffic crashes.
The DUI Shuffle: Why was ex-Bears star and 4-time offender Dan Hampton still driving?
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In a just world, if you've previously committed three DUIs, you wouldn't even have the opportunity to rack up a fourth one.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Masks Will Still be Required on Transit Through March (Forbes)
- HSR Opponents Lose Appeal (FresnoBee)
- Another Transit Line Goes Fully Automatic (RailwayAge)
- Development of Redwood City Caltrain Stop (SFChron)
- BART’s Ugly Holiday Sweater (KRON4)
- S.F. Challenges Application to Charge for Robo Taxis (Reuters)
- Jim Frazier to Resign (SFChron)
- Living on the Water (SFGate)
- Berkeley Ends ‘Healthy Streets’ Program (Berkeleyside)
- Commentary: Let’s be Done with the Office (SFGate)
- Commentary: Can SMART Handle Freight Service? (MarinIJ)
- Commentary: Infrastructure Bill Helps the Rich (EastBayTimes)
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East Bay Cities Sneak in Beg Buttons
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Speeding up buses defeats the purpose if it also slows down bus riders/pedestrians
Can E-Mopedsharing Help Wean Americans Off Car Ownership?
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Electric moped sharing became one of the most rapidly growing alternatives to driving in cities around the world during 2021 — but America lags behind, mostly because our roads are too dangerous.