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SFMTA Starts ‘Pop Up’ Outreach for Sunset Neighborway
SFMTA set up a pop-up outreach tent and table as part of the launch of the "20th Avenue Neighborway Project," a plan to make 20th Avenue more pedestrian and bicycle friendly.
June 29, 2017
What About Bike Safety During Paving and Construction Projects?
Construction crews tend to see bike lanes as a place to plant detour signs, rather than recognizing them as travel lanes.
June 28, 2017
SPUR Talk: Contest to Stave Off Disaster Before it Strikes
The Bay Area is in danger from sea level rise, and the organization "Resilient by Design" wants ideas and plans for how to make sure a storm surge, or even the ongoing effects of incremental climate change and erosion, don't lead to disaster, by building resiliency into coastal infrastructure.
June 27, 2017
BART’s New Green Machine Bike Racks
BART has launched a pilot project at 16th Street/Mission and Pleasant Hill stations of a new type of bike storage security device. They're called "Bike Keep" racks, but Streetsblog prefers to call them the "Green Machines."
June 26, 2017
Bike Lane Gap in Menlo Park Bay Trail Route
Designers somehow weren’t able to find any space to install bike lanes nearest to Marsh Road, where the street is a massive 80 feet wide. City planners instead hope to lure bicyclists onto the new sidewalks with signs reading “Bicycles OK to Use Sidewalk.”
June 23, 2017
Cyclist Killed at Messed-Up S.F. Intersection
"Alemany is a high-injury corridor--one of the 12 percent of city streets that account for 70 percent of severe and fatal crashes. So this tragic death is not an 'accident'--it's a predictable result of a dangerous transportation system," said Cathy DeLuca, Interim Executive Director of Walk San Francisco.
June 22, 2017
A Talk with the Head of Oakland’s DOT
Streetsblog caught up with Russo on Friday near his office in downtown Oakland to talk about how he's settling in, what he thinks of the strides Oakland has made so far, and how he will shepherd the department towards a safer, more equitable and more sustainable future.
June 20, 2017
Update on Plans to Get Trains into S.F. Transbay Terminal
The San Francisco Planning Department will be presenting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with updated plans for getting trains from the Caltrain corridor into the lower level of the Transbay Transit Center.
June 19, 2017
If Ride-Hails Are the Future, Why so Much Parking at One Oak?
The 135 parking spots at One Oak show a weird disconnect between transportation trends, the stated goals of city planners, and the actual planning and development that continues in the Bay Area.
June 15, 2017
