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• Thu 23: MTC Approves Sweeping Regional Plan, Debates New Toll Lanes Comments Off
• Wed 22: Eyes On The Street: Mayor Newsom Shames Earth Day 11
• Wed 22: Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials 8
• Tue 21: Bayview Merchants Hopeful Sunday Streets Will Bring Business 3
• Wed 15: Ad Nauseam: What Are You Implying, Chase? 14
• Tue 14: Making the Best of Having Your Bicycle Stolen 4
• Mon 13: California Cities Need A Predictable Fund For Transit Operations 7
• Fri 10: BART Releases 2010 Budget, But Board Doesn’t Debate Its Merits 2
• Thu 9: Calls For Greater 311, MTA Efficiency 4
• Thu 9: BART Board Will Consider Increased Parking Fees to Address Budget Woes 2
• Wed 8: Caption Contest: Riding the Historic Streetcar 6
• Wed 8: MTC to Award $1.3 Million for Bay Bridge West Span Bike Path Study 20
• Tue 7: GM and Segway Unveil La-Z-Boy on Wheels 10
• Mon 6: What’s in a Neighborhood 10
• Fri 3: You Don’t Have To Be A Genius To Know Bike Registration Is Dumb 12
• Fri 3: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Thu 2: Eyes on the Street: Some Lovely Photos from a Streetsblog Reader 2
• Thu 2: News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets 8
• Thu 2: Today’s Headlines 2
• Wed 1: Ad Nauseam: Kentucky Fried Potholes 7
• Wed 1: Mayor Newsom, Caltrans Announce Plans to Remove Portions of I-280 9
• Tue 31: Happy Belated Transportation Freedom Day, San Francisco! Comments Off
• Mon 30: California Could Start Requiring Drivers to Report VMT 23
• Fri 27: The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate 8
• Fri 27: That’s Sooo Vanilla!: Friday Bike Porn in Forbes Magazine 3
• Thu 26: The World’s Best Music Videos Featuring Bicycles 12
• Thu 26: Regional Transportation Funding Problems Keep Getting Bigger 5
• Wed 25: 17th Street Closure Will Be First NYC-style Plaza in San Francisco 47
• Tue 24: Should California Enact an “Idaho Stop” Law for Cyclists? 19
• Tue 24: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Mon 23: Little Brother is Watching 4
• Mon 23: San Francisco’s Unbuilt Freeway Network Revisited 10
• Mon 23: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Fri 20: BART Board Will Soon Debate Raising Parking Fees 10
• Wed 18: Sacramento to Debate How to Allocate Stimulus Funds this Week Comments Off
• Wed 18: DOT and HUD: Transportation and Land-Use Planning Should Prioritize TOD 1
• Tue 17: The Troubling Discord Between Transbay and High Speed Rail Authorities 14
• Tue 17: US DOT Secretary LaHood Gives Love to Bikes and Streetsblog 3
• Tue 17: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Mon 16: The Clamor for a Better Market Street Grows Louder 12
• Mon 16: Today’s Headlines 1
• Fri 13: Planning Unveils Street Design Toolkit in the Mission 8
• Thu 12: DPW Agrees to Delay Pedestrian Median Fence on Potrero Ave 3
• Thu 12: Street Closure Committee Approves First Two Sunday Streets Routes 1
• Thu 12: Walk Score Updates Transit Travel Map for Bay Area 6
• Wed 11: Mission Neighbors Upset Over Proposed Pedestrian Fence 31
• Tue 10: The Rise of the Longtail Bicycle 4
• Mon 9: Do We Have to Wait for the Next Mayor for a Car-free Market Street? 10
• Fri 6: The Future Design of SF’s Bike Racks May Start on Treasure Island 5
• Thu 5: The Art of Air Traffic Over America 1
• Tue 3: Did the Chronicle Forget SF Has a Transit-First Policy? 7
• Tue 3: Love Your Lane: Kirkham Street to the Sea 1
• Tue 3: The Nearly Extinct Bipedus Norteamericanus Makes a Comeback 3
• Mon 2: A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard Comments Off
• Fri 27: Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free 4
• Thu 26: San Francisco Should Take Cues from New York and Just Try It! 19
• Wed 25: Despite Outcry, MTC Board Approves OAK Connector Funds 5
• Tue 24: Advocates Upset Stim Money Could Still Fund Oakland Airport Connector 3
• Fri 20: The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers 25
• Thu 19: A Decidedly Dim View of Electric Vehicles 15
• Wed 18: Planning Department Unveils San Francisco’s First Pedestrian Priority Street 8
• Wed 18: Obama Calls For Better Regional Planning Measures in TEA Reauthorization 1
• Wed 18: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Tue 17: The Future of Van Ness Avenue is a Full-Feature BRT Route 19
• Fri 13: How Many Bikes Would Make a Proper Bike Share Program in San Francisco? 3
• Thu 12: Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices 5
• Tue 10: DIY Safety Aids No Bike Injunction Can Stop 1
• Tue 10: BRT Comes Out Ahead of Light Rail, Again 41
• Mon 9: Two-Way Hayes Extension is a Step Closer, Though Obstacles Remain 10
• Mon 9: Advocates Ask Supes to Support a Two-Way Hayes 2
• Fri 6: The Great Streets Campaign Needs a Leader 6
• Thu 5: Senate’s $50 Billion Highway Giveaway Nearly Dead Comments Off
• Thu 5: SPUR Hosting a Meet-and-Greet With Supervisor Avalos Tonight Comments Off
• Thu 5: The Boxer/Inhofe Amendment: Not Green Enough Comments Off
• Wed 4: Love Your Lane: Unclogging the Cesar Chavez Traffic Sewer 42
• Wed 4: Boxer’s Stimulus Saga Rolls On 1
• Tue 3: It Gets Worse: Boxer/Inhofe to Request $50B More for Highways 2
• Tue 3: Will Senator Boxer Give in to Global-Warming-a-Hoax Inhofe on Stimulus? 2
• Mon 2: Does Car Sharing Reduce Your Driving? 14
• Thu 29: The Impending Failure of San Francisco’s Pilot Bike Share Program 29
• Wed 28: Paradise LOSt (Part III): California’s Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis 3
• Tue 27: Watch Now: House Rules Committee Debating Stim Package 1
• Tue 27: Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head 3
• Tue 27: Two Action Alerts to Improve Stimulus Package for Transit Today 6
• Mon 26: Paradise LOSt (Part I): How Long Will the City Keep Us Stuck in Our Cars? 31
• Fri 23: Eyes on the Street: DIY Street Furniture Enlivens Potrero Hill Street 4
• Fri 23: Market/Octavia Debate: Safety by Numbers or Safety in Numbers? 6
• Fri 23: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Thu 22: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Wed 21: Drivers Are Running the Red Light at Fell/Masonic, Imperiling Cyclists 30
• Tue 20: Unlocking San Francisco’s Privately Owned Public Open Spaces 4
• Mon 19: Volunteers Clean Up the Streets for National Day of Service 2
• Fri 16: Disabilities Advocates Launch Campaign to End Sidewalk Parking 6
• Fri 16: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Thu 15: Media Too Often Blame the Victim in Pedestrian Crashes Comments Off
• Thu 15: Supervisor Dufty Argues 299 Valencia Vote Sets No Precedent 6
• Wed 14: Obama Nominee Ray LaHood Appropriated Big Money to Road Lobby Comments Off
• Wed 14: 299 Valencia Appeal Fails As Swing Vote Dufty Sides with Developer 6
• Tue 13: Eyes on the Street: History of Oakland Chinatown’s Barnes Dance 10
• Tue 13: Today’s Headlines Comments Off
• Mon 12: Will the Board of Supervisors Betray the Market/Octavia Plan on Tuesday? 6
• Mon 12: In Magnetometers We Trust 2
• Fri 9: Bike Commuter, David Chiu, Will Preside Over the Board of Supes 1
• Wed 7: Schwarzenegger Long on Fiscal Stimulus Rhetoric, Short on Transit Specifics 1
• Tue 6: Eyes on the Street: Cleaning the Curb, Fouling the Sidewalk 7
• Tue 6: SF’s Parking Experiment to Test Shoup’s Traffic Theories 2
• Thu 11: San Francisco Mayor to NYC: “Eat Your Heart Out.” 25
• Fri 28: SF Responds to Bike Injunction With 1,353 Page Enviro Review 17
• Thu 9: Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf 3
• Wed 8: Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists 7