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The Crazy Idea of Running Caltrain onto Muni’s Tracks
Maybe it's not quite as crazy as it sounds
June 14, 2017
SamTrans Targets Next Generation of Bus Riders With Youth Mobility Plan
San Mateo County Transit District's Youth Mobility Plan recommends a number of initiatives to boost the agency’s declining ridership by improving quality of service for youth. “Today’s youth passengers are tomorrow’s adult passengers,” said SamTrans Senior Planner Lindsay Kiner.
June 13, 2017
What Happened to West Portal’s Lonely Little Bike Lockers?
Four BikeLink electronic bike lockers used to live in the back corner of the Ulloa Street parking lot, 140 paces from Muni's West Portal Station. But now they're gone.
June 12, 2017
Bikes for the Poor, Bikes on Trains, Biking to Google: Golden Wheel Winners Tell their Stories
The SF Bike Coalition hosted an event to hear from the winners of the Golden Wheel award, and about how they made biking better for many people in the Bay Area.
June 9, 2017
San Mateo Bike Share Update: City Readies to Double Fleet to 100 Bikes
The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.
June 8, 2017
Dutch Transportation and Planning Official Reflects on SF Infrastructure
As Streetsblog readers are surely aware, when it comes to public transit, pedestrian safety, and above all good bicycle infrastructure, the Dutch are the global champions.
June 7, 2017
Bike Coalition Preps for Next Round of SoMa Fight
There are now four design options for a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)'s project to add parking-protected bike lanes, possible transit lanes, and wider sidewalks on Howard and Folsom Streets in SoMa. All four of these designs are pretty darned good. All four have pretty good protected bike lanes.
June 6, 2017
Ten-Lane Widening Planned for Highway 101 in San Mateo County
“The goal here is to make a consistent travel time for carpools and buses,” said San Mateo County Transportation Authority Deputy Project Manager Leo Scott. "If we can do that, we incentivize the movement from single occupancy cars to higher occupancy vehicles.” At the same time, widening the highway to ten lanes does exactly the opposite, creating more space for more single occupancy vehicles - Caltrans is expecting the number of vehicles on Highway 101 to jump between four to seven percent in just the next three years.
June 5, 2017
Guest Editorial: Sorry Dick, but Bicycles are Part of Marin’s Transportation Solution
Dick Spotswood of the Marin Independent Journal was correct when he recently stated that adding highway lanes won’t fix our traffic problems. But he was very wrong when he glibly asserted that bikes are of little utility to Marinites traveling to work or doing business.
June 2, 2017
SF SPUR Talk: Why is Housing so Expensive?
Construction/labor costs aren't even that big a factor, when weighed against all others, dispelling the idea that there are simple ways to bring down prices.
June 1, 2017
