Commentary: Poor Leadership is the Through Line of the West Portal/Vision Zero Stories
In the wake of the West Portal crash, San Francisco media is echoing the alarms that Streetsblog has long sounded. Street safety is on the front pages of all the major newspapers.
March 25, 2024
Eyes on the Overcrossing: Mokelumne Bike Bridge Opens
Bike East Bay deserves a thanks for pushing to get bike and pedestrian gaps filled in throughout the Bay Area
March 21, 2024
Commentary: The West Portal Tragedy and the Unfathomable Cost of Motordom
Unrestricted driving, wide forgiving roads, little to no physical infrastructure to force speed reductions, and no real police enforcement—this is the predictable and inevitable result
March 20, 2024
Lawmakers Launch Bill They Hope Will Make Bay Area Transit Awesome
But many advocates are already concerned it could provide funding for more highways. And will it really provide the seamless and equitable transit system everyone says they want?
March 19, 2024
Roundup: Speed Camera Update, East-Bay Greenway…
...and MTC plans to betray its mission, not to mention 40 years of advocacy, on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
March 18, 2024
Safety Activists Close a Lane on Franklin
Advocates, fed up with SFMTA's lack of action, closed one lane on one block outside Sherman Elementary. But the city that claims to never have resources to build safe streets turned it back into a surface-level freeway later the same morning
March 15, 2024
Superhero of Safer 17th
Streetsblog talks with Peter Belden, an independent advocate who helped lead the effort for a safer 17th
March 14, 2024
Advocates Demand Change After Another Crash on International
At least 14 people were injured Friday in yet another collision on International Blvd. in Oakland, this time involving two drivers and a bus.
March 12, 2024
Awesome Bike Lanes Coming to El Cerrito
San Pablo Avenue around El Cerrito Del Norte BART is getting some kick-ass bike infrastructure. Is this the first step towards making the length of San Pablo a street that's safe for all?
March 7, 2024
SPUR Talk: High-Speed Rail Update
Diridon Station, Salesforce Transit Center, the Portal tunnel, Caltrain electrification—SPUR hosts a panel about all the connections and projects that will together make up the Bay Area's future rail system
March 6, 2024
