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All cars (and one truck) clogging up all the lanes on the bridge. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Contest Finalists to Help Plan Bay Area’s Future

By Roger Rudick | Oct 23, 2018 | 8 Comments

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) announced late yesterday the selection of six "transformative transportation projects" and six "transformative operational strategies" as finalists in its Horizon initiative. The contest solicited long-range ideas for improving mobility in the Bay Area by 2050.

Scooters on Market Street. Photo: Andy Bosselman

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Return of the Scooters

By Roger Rudick | Oct 16, 2018 | 8 Comments

They're now permitted, but are they being parked properly? And are there enough to constitute a useful service?

A bus stop for Muni's 25 Treasure Island. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Editorial: Turn Treasure Island Pass into Bay Area Fare Zone 1

By Roger Rudick | Oct 11, 2018 | 9 Comments

The TI Pass could be the start of a modern fare zone system for the region... if executives and bureaucrats seize the opportunity

SFMTA's Ed Reiskin, during happier times, getting a shoe shine at the new Salesforce Transit Center on Aug. 13., during lunch hour. Shortly after that, the center was closed due to cracked beams. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Should the Mayor Sack Director Reiskin?

By Roger Rudick | Aug 21, 2018 | 32 Comments

She'd need the SFMTA Board to actually do it, but Mayor Breed sets stage for Reiskin's ouster

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Advocates Want Bike Share Caps Removed

By Roger Rudick | Aug 14, 2018 | 25 Comments

Caps and neighborhood resistance are limiting the availability of new mobility choices

The main hall of the new transit center, now closed. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick

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Sneak Peek at the Salesforce Transit Center

By Roger Rudick | Aug 8, 2018 | 21 Comments

A look inside San Francisco's new Transbay bus facility

BART fare gate. Not to be confused with a Muni subway fare gate. Or any of the 27 Bay Area operator's other fare/payment systems. Photo: BART

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SPUR Talk: The Business of Public Transit

By Roger Rudick | Jul 31, 2018 | 10 Comments

It has customers. It takes in revenue. It provides a service. Public transportation sounds like a business, doesn't it?

SFMTA's Ricardo Olea addresses the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee about work to protect seniors. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Public Safety Committee Hears Reports on Traffic Violence and Seniors

By Roger Rudick | Jul 25, 2018 | 2 Comments

Caltrans talks about HAWK beacons and how they balance safety and traffic flow

Tom Maguire, Ed Reiskin, Lee Hsu, Cheryl Brinkman, Gwyneth Borden, and Art Torres at today's SFMTA board meeting. All pics Streetsblog/Rudick unless indicated

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Advocates, Angered by Townsend Project Cancellation, Dominate SFMTA Board Meeting

By Roger Rudick | Jul 17, 2018 | 8 Comments

Some sixty advocates from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and more from other street safety groups, came to today's SFMTA board meeting to demand the agency reinstate the Townsend Corridor Improvement Project

One of many Ubers/Lyfts making an illegal u-turn after discharging passengers on Townsend during yesterday's protest. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless noted

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SFMTA Cancels Townsend Safety Project; Advocates Fight Back

By Roger Rudick | Jul 11, 2018 | 9 Comments

Roughly seventy safety advocates donned yellow t-shirts and stood on the edge of the bike lanes along Townsend Street at the King Street Station yesterday evening to demand safety upgrades.

A rendering of a "zero emission," hydrogen powered ferry

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Hydrogen-Powered Ferry Promises Cleaner Air

By Roger Rudick | Jun 26, 2018 | 2 Comments

It's about how the hydrogen is produced, not just the vehicles

A 5 Fulton navigating the traffic circle at McAllister and Steiner, now removed. Streetsblog/Rudick

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Eyes on the Street: The McAllister Makeover

By Roger Rudick | Jun 19, 2018 | 33 Comments

This spring, as part of the Muni Forward project, the city installed two new traffic circles and two new signals on McAllister Street to improve the performance of the 5 Fulton bus.

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