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Washington Roundup: Obama Proposes Big Money for High-Speed Rail, BART to San Jose, Central & Westside Subways
Posted on February 15, 2012It was a huge week in Washington for the transportation sector as the issues we care about took center stage – here’s a roundup of the important storylines for California... -
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SMART to Buy Used Drawbridge from Texas to Replace 109-Year-Old Span
Posted on February 15, 2012The North Bay’s budding commuter railroad intends to buy a used draw bridge from Galveston, Tex., to replace an aging swing span over the Petaluma River. The current swing bridge... -
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BART To Bring Back All-Night Service For Bay Bridge Closure
Posted on February 8, 2012With a partial closure of the Bay Bridge slated for President’s Day weekend, BART is preparing to run trains all night to maintain mobility between the East Bay and San... -
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SF Car-Sharing Service Will Soon Offer Electric Bikes
Posted on February 7, 2012It’s a big week for bike-sharing news in the Bay Area – earlier we discussed the regional bike-sharing system slated to come online before the America’s Cup, and now we... -
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New Historic Streetcar Line & Bike Sharing Pilot Planned for SF in Time for America’s Cup
Posted on February 7, 2012With the massive America’s Cup sailing event coming to San Francisco next year, planning officials are hoping to push through some long-sought-after transit, cycling, and general streetscape improvements to better... -
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R.I.P. California Redevelopment Agencies
Posted on February 2, 2012California’s redevelopment agencies and the tax-increment financing scheme that created them died this month, murdered mercilessly by Governor Jerry Brown and the state legislature. They had been funneling tax dollars... -
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San Francisco to Mexico (via L.A. and San Diego) on Public Transit – 6 Trains, 12 Buses, 49 Hours
Posted on January 16, 2012If your New Year’s resolution was to complete my epic transit journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles popularized by Joe Eskenazi’s SF Weekly cover story, you might want to... -
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Find an Apartment Based on Your Commute with Walkscore Apartment Search
Posted on December 15, 2011Walkscore, the website that attempts to quantify the “walkability” of streets and neighborhoods, has introduced a new apartment search tool that makes it easy to find a home near transit.... -
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Transit Tax Break to be Sliced as Parking Tax Break Increases
Posted on December 6, 2011Congress is about to let a tax benefit for transit riders expire, further codifying the federal government’s favoritism toward personal automobiles and it’s disdain for cities. Without action by the... -
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Reader Mail: Blog Inspires Epic Five Day Transit Journey from S.F. to Pasadena
Posted on December 4, 2011Reader Adrienne saw the SF Weekly cover story about my San Francisco to Los Angeles local public transit itinerary, and decided to one-up Joe Eskenazi. For Thanksgiving, Adrienne traveled from...