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California Has Officially Ditched Car-Centric “Level of Service”

By Damien Newton and Melanie Curry | Aug 7, 2014 | No Comments

Ding, dong… LOS is dead. At least as far as the state of California is concerned. Level of Service (LOS) has been the standard by which the state measures the transportation impacts of major developments and changes to streets. It is basically a measurement of how many cars can be pushed through an intersection in a […]

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Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker Bankrolls Free Parking Ballot Initiative in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 15, 2014 | No Comments

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee’s mayoral campaign in 2011. The ballot initiative, which proponents frame as an […]

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Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 8, 2013 | No Comments

When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]

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Donald Shoup Breaks Down Two Years of Data From Groundbreaking SFpark

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 8, 2013 | No Comments

Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark. “The biggest surprise I got was that prices went up and down, but overall, they stayed the same. The average price actually declined by 1 percent,” said […]

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The San Francisco DA’s Double Standard on Traffic Justice

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 25, 2013 | No Comments

On the morning of March 29 last year, Chris Bucchere biked through a crowded crosswalk in San Francisco’s Mission District, striking 71-year-old Sutchi Hui, who died of his injuries four days later. As should be the case for any traffic fatality, SF District Attorney George Gascón spent considerable time building a case — collecting GPS data and […]

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SF Mayor’s Advisor: “Let’s Be San Francisco and Take Down the Freeway”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 14, 2013 | No Comments

The idea of removing the northern section of Highway 280 near Mission Bay in San Francisco is gaining more traction as planners look for ideal ways to usher in high-speed rail and transit-oriented development in the city’s core. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association last Thursday, Mayor Ed Lee’s transportation […]

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