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Op-Ed: To Recover from COVID, Transit Needs a Rider-Centered Future
Together, the key players in transit — riders, elected officials and decision-makers, staff and consultants, and advocates and media — have the power to rebuild a stronger transit system.
March 20, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: Roadways for People
We chat with Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering — plus better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities.
March 17, 2023
SGV Connect 108: State Senate Candidate Sasha Renée Pérez
SGV Connect catches up with Alhambra City Councilmember and State Senate candidate Sasha Renée Pérez
March 17, 2023
Study: Pedestrian Death Rate More Than 2x Higher in Historically Red-Lined Neighborhoods
Communities that were red-lined in the 1930s are still experiencing more than twice the rate of pedestrian deaths today than more privileged neighborhoods — and we can't achieve Vision Zero until we reckon with racist and classist policies that contribute to the disparity, a groundbreaking new study argues.
March 17, 2023
Preliminary FY23-24 Metro Budget Would (Again) Increase Freeway Funding, While Cutting Transit
Metro staff recommendation for next year's budget: a 5 percent increase in freeway construction and a 5 percent decrease in transit construction
March 16, 2023
San Francisco Officially Opens Two-Way Battery Bike Lane
It's sad that SFMTA, in 2023, with record fatalities due to traffic violence in 2022, is still "experimenting" on humans and building and boasting about such bare-bone, "better than nothing" designs.
March 16, 2023
‘Secretary Pete Can’t Save You’: FHWA OKs Houston Highway Expansion After Pause
"The lesson here is, Secretary Pete is not going to come in and save the day," said one highway opponent. "And he probably isn’t capable of saving the day."
March 16, 2023
Q&A: Councilmember Fife has had it with Oakland’s Dangerous Streets
"I'm willing to go all the way to keep people safe" says District 3 Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife
March 15, 2023
Metro’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Proposal, First Step: Just Keep Paying Police and Sheriff
The current proposal is a three-year extension of the ~$130 million/year multi-agency contract negotiated back in 2017, not a fully-fleshed-out reimagined approach to public safety advocates and many transit users had hoped to see
March 15, 2023
Guest Post: Franklin Street Project Highlights City Leadership Failures
San Francisco is still trying to fake its way to Vision Zero. We need a generation of new leaders who take street safety seriously
March 14, 2023
