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Plenty of Changes Underway on Chrystie and Forsyth (But No Cycle Track)

By Gideon Shapiro | Oct 14, 2008 | 9 Comments

New pedestrian space borders Sara Roosevelt Park on Forsyth Street. (The buffered zone is for parking, not biking.) Redesigns of Chrystie and Forsyth Streets have started to materialize, giving cyclists and pedestrians a glimpse of changes to come. New bicycle lanes on Chrystie Street may be the most widely anticipated aspect of DOT’s planned changes […]

Jan Gehl Reflects on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf

By Matthew Roth | Oct 9, 2008 | 3 Comments

"When I was a visiting professor at Berkeley in the 1980s, I used to come to Fisherman’s Wharf and walk around," Danish urban designer Jan Gehl said Wednesday night, to more than 100 San Franciscans at the Pier 39 Theater near Fisherman’s Wharf. "Now it’s like deja vu; it’s exactly like I remember it 25 […]

Jan Gehl Says San Francisco Must be Sweet to Pedestrians and Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | Oct 8, 2008 | 7 Comments

It’s a good day in a city’s urbanist evolution when Jan Gehl comes to town, and now San Francisco can add itself to the growing list of cities around the world that have embraced his people-first approach to urban design and planning. Hoping to keep pace with the progress in New York City over the […]

Brookings: Feds Should Stop Giving Transit Projects the Run-Around

By Ben Fried | Sep 18, 2008 | 4 Comments

Americans are moving to areas with better transit access, but their options are limited. Via Dave Roberts at Grist, this congressional testimony from Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution [PDF] is a must-read for anyone interested in how the country can reduce dependence on cars and fossil fuels. High gas prices and soaring transit ridership […]

What If a Rep From NYC Chaired the Assembly Transpo Committee?

By Ben Fried | Sep 15, 2008 | 5 Comments

As the Ravitch Commission’s first public hearing on how to fix the MTA’s budget woes gets underway, this paragraph from today’s Times story on the Rochester Regional Transit Service (annual budget: $62 million) bears mentioning: Just four years ago, the Rochester authority was in financial straits and facing large deficits. Since then, it has lobbied […]

Pew Poll: Most Americans Want More Transit Investment

By Brad Aaron | Aug 27, 2008 | 5 Comments

A new Pew Research Center study on political preferences includes polling data that show almost three-fourths of Americans favor more spending on public transportation: Column one indicates responses for all those surveyed. Columns two, three and four show responses among those who identify as Republicans, Democrats and Independents, respectively. The poll was taken last February. […]

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