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Muni Service Updates for September 29-30
There are a lot of fun events going on in San Francisco this weekend, which means there will be a lot of traffic. Rather than sitting in all that traffic, everyone is highly encouraged to take transit this weekend instead. Note: transit may also be quite slow, as is often the case when 1/3 of … Continue reading
Envisioning a Carfree Auto Row
Oakland’s Broadway is analogous to Market Street in San Francisco, and the analogy is especially strong downtown. Both are major transit streets served by both subway rail and a confluence of surface bus lines, and both streets are the main spine of their respective downtowns. It seems natural for the energy of lower Broadway to … Continue reading
More Frequent BART Service Next Year
Currently, individual BART routes run on 15 minute headways during the weekdays, but on nights and weekends, headways increase to 20 minutes. Earlier this year, BART proposed decreasing headways to 15 minutes all the time, any day of the week. The money to pay for the additional maintenance, labor and operating costs came from a … Continue reading
Construction Progress: 9-25-2007
Time for another construction update! The last construction progress post mainly focused on buildings that were recently completed or are very near completion, so this post will cover many large projects that are not as far along yet. As usual for these posts, you can click through each picture to see a larger version. The … Continue reading
Help Spread the Word about the Muni Reform Initiative
Interested in helping out a good cause? Please take some time out of your schedule to phone your fellow citizens, encouraging them, come November, to vote for the Muni reform charter amendment (Proposition A) and to vote against the misguided “Parking for Neighborhoods” initiative (Proposition H). I received this email recently from Dave Snyder over … Continue reading
(PARK)ing Day 2007
When you stop and think about it, it is amazing just how much space we have chosen to give over to automobiles. Certainly, there are the car storage locations: surface parking lots, street parking spots, driveways, and huge parking garages. But what about freeways? Entire neighborhoods have been sacrificed and razed to the ground to … Continue reading
Celebrate World Carfree Day
Every year on September 22, cities across the world celebrate World Carfree Day, which, amidst the hustle-bustle that characterizes modern traffic congestion, serves as a cogent reminder that cities are made for people, not automobiles. This year’s holiday promises to be especially large, as the Chinese government is putting out a big effort to make … Continue reading
Hines-Pelli Design is the Official Transbay Winner
To the surprise of no one, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority announced today that the design submitted by Pelli Clarke Pelli architect and the Hines development team to the Transbay competition has officially won the competition. The TJPA retained a jury that studied the designs, and last week the jury unanimously selected the Hines-Pelli design … Continue reading
Congestion Pricing in the News
Awhile back, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, who is also chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, proposed to adopt in San Francisco some variant of a congestion pricing plan that was implemented in London in 2003; namely, a plan to charge drivers additional tolls for entering congested downtown streets. In London, the tolls apply for … Continue reading
Berkeley NIMBY Ordinance Holds the Elmwood District Hostage
Bolfing’s Elmwood Hardware, the famous hardware store which opened in 1923 and has since come to be a key fixture of the Elmwood District in South Berkeley, is in danger of closing its doors — and this only months after Telegraph Avenue lost Cody’s Books, a venerable Berkeley institution of 50 years. Why is Elmwood … Continue reading
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