Eyes on the Street: Alameda’s Chonky-Curb Protected Bike Lane
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The City of Alameda gets it: if you're going to protect a bike lane, PROTECT the bike lane!
Chicago transportation advocates weigh in on car-centric federal infrastructure bill
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The increased investment in walking, biking, and transit is great, but these investments are at risk of being outweighed by an increase in roadway expansion.
Send Us Nominees For the Most Toxic Car Ad!
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Today, we're launching a contest to find the most worst of the bunch — and a starting conversation about the impact that auto advertising has on American culture, as well as our roads and streets.
OPINION: In Car Culture, Crash Victims are Always Blamed (Even By Loved Ones)
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First, a driver hit me. Then many in my social circle implicitly blamed me. That’s reason enough for examining our deadly deal with the automobile.
Study: Success of Drunk Driving Laws is Limited … If Drivers Have No Alternatives
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Lowering the threshold for how much a driver can drink before he gets behind the wheel may not actually make our streets safer — at least if communities don’t provide people who imbibe other ways to get around besides driving, a new study suggests.
Meet the Board Podcast Series: Marven Norman in the Inland Empire
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After a six-year hiatus, Marven returns to a Streetsblog California podcast.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Caltrain Service Ramping Up (RailwayAge)
- Threats Against Golden Gate Transit Bus Operators (EastBayTimes)
- Free Ride on the Cable Cars (Trains)
- $12 ‘Sail and Rail’ Ferry/SMART Train Fare (SFExaminer)
- Is there a Way out of the Rush Hour Nightmare? (Governing)
- Promoting Biking is Good Economic Policy (Fortune)
- Golden Gate Greenway (Hoodline)
- Controversy over CHP Patrolling Oakland Streets (SFChron)
- Motorist Arrested for Hitting Pedestrian in Oakland Hills (SFGate)
- The History of Little Russia (SFGate)
- Berkeley is Denser and More Diverse (Berkeleyside)
- Old Periscope Photos of San Francisco (SFChron)
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Great Walkway Reverts to Motorists
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Hundreds marched on Sunday to protest the sacrifice of San Francisco's beach-side park
Self-Driving Car Company to Test a Second Autonomous Vehicle in NYC
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Wait a minute — there's going to be another one of those things out there? And then five more?!
OPINION: Muscle-Car Makers Market Mayhem
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Dodge sells its Chargers with images of road recklessness and — whaddya know? — some Charger drivers copy the ads. It's time for the dangerous appeals to end.
Talking Headways Podcast: Saved Mental Energy
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This week we're joined by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to talk about their book, "Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives." We chat about the ambient stress and anxiety created by auto-oriented cities, the mental energy saved by car-light spaces, and the difference between engineering and ecological resilience.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Supervisor Chan does Museum’s Bidding on J.F.K. Drive (SFExaminer)
- More on Great Walkway Closure (SFGate, KTVU, Hoodline)
- More on Legal Challenge to Great Walkway Closure (48Hills)
- Delta Disrupts BART’s Return (SFChron)
- Replacing NextMuni (MassTransit)
- San Francisco’s Tiny Streets (SFGate)
- MTC Campaign to Bolster Transit Use (VacavilleReporter)
- Regulating Parklets? (SFGate)
- Dam the Golden Gate to Deal with Sea Level Rise? (SFChron)
- More on Property/Infra at Risk from Sea-Level Rise (DailyJournal)
- ‘Affordable’ Homes Now Cost Millions (SFGate)
- Reservations for Bay Area Parks? (SFGate)
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