Transportation Watch
Google Maps just announced that it's added a feature to map optimum bicycle routes. So now when you hit the "get directions" button you can choose "By car," "By public transit," "Walking," and now: "Bicycling."Marc Caswell, program manager for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition was excited by the...
Calling all gamers! It’s time for a multiple choice quiz. When you hear about a groundbreaking iPhone application, what springs to mind?A. Spunky Silicon-Valley start-ups?
B. Teenage hackers?
Or
C. government transportation planners?
Yep, it’s C—transportation planners may just be the...
This story is about a piece of land that you’ve probably passed through thousands of times without ever noticing it. It’s the acreage immediately below the Bay Bridge where it hits the East Bay. It’s a strange place, both wild and industrial, and a group of planners and engineers is working to turn...
Protests run on anger, and anger has a way of suppressing higher-order thinking, so it shouldn’t be too surprising when the people who take to the streets start acting a little punch drunk. The organizers of March Against Muni, who have been plastering San Francisco with signs, have displayed a...
People are justifiably concerned about where all the federal stimulus money is going. Much of that money is borrowed, so it's not just our tax dollars at stake -- our children will be paying the interest on these projects for years to come. And the rush to create jobs increases the odds that bad...
How the deal fell through: An annotated guide to the Oakland Airport connector
November 2000 – Alameda County voters approve a sales tax for a list of possible transportation improvements. A new link from the Coliseum BART station to the Oakland International Airport is included in this list....
On Friday afternoon I got word that the Federal Transportation Administration had shot down the BART Oakland Airport Connector for good. A few calls to Washington produced the letter confirming that this was true. If we'd had a show that night, KALW would have broken the news, but I had to content...
In 2009 California received $3.4 billion in federal stimulus for transportation projects. Of that, $2.6 billion went to highway infrastructure, and $0.8 billion went to public transit. That’s a 75 percent / 25 percent split.
You don’t have to be a anti-car partisan to see something wrong with those...
It was reported in the Merc that the BART extension to San Jose is eligible for federal monies. This is interesting, because the last time BART asked Uncle Sam to help get it to San Jose the answer was: "No way." (I'm paraphrasing.) Now, it's a: "Maybe." So what changed between now and then? The...
You've probably noticed that fares for public transit all around the Bay Area have already been going up -- and you may well have found that one of your favorite bus lines stopped running recently.
That can make your life a bit tougher in this economy, but as KALW's Nathanael Johnson reports...
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