transportation

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

How to Secure Transportation Funding? Commit to Growth

By Egon Terplan, Regional Planning Director, and Aaron Bialick, SPUR intern
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Image courtesy Flickr user Schaffner

The Bay Area is in the midst of a major planning initiative to identify where to grow and how to allocate scarce transportation dollars to support new population and jobs over the next 30 years.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

How Can We Reclaim Market Street?

Gretchen Hilyard
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Parade of striking telephone workers marching down Market Street, 1947. Image courtesy of San Francisco History Room, San Francisco Public Library.

San Francisco’s Market Street has a long and fascinating history: from its ambitious beginnings as an over-scaled boulevard, laid out by Jasper O’Farrell in 1847, to its heyday as the c

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

BART of the Future

By Jennifer Warburg
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Image courtesy of Noah Christman

Forget what your mother told you about "it's what’s on the inside that counts.” In the case of BART trains, it’s all about what’s on the outside.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

How will 1.7 million more people cross the SF Bay?

By Jordan Salinger and Egon Terplan
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Image by Denisa Trenkle

The San Francisco Bay Area is expected to grow by 1.7 million people in the next 25 years.

Monday, July 18, 2011

What will 4th Street look like in twenty years?

By Sarah Karlinsky
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The SF Caltrain station at 4th and King. Image courtesy flickr user Shaffner

The stretch of 4th Street between Market Street and the Caltrain station at 4th and King Street may not be one of San Francisco’s best-known neighborhoods (at least not yet), but it’s a

Friday, April 8, 2011

Behind the scenes at SFO's New Terminal 2

-By Jordan Salinger
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Initial Vision Scenario released for the Bay Area

-POSTED BY EGON TERPLAN
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ABAG and MTC released their Initial Vision Scenario at a meeting in Oakland today (http://apps.mtc.ca.gov/events/agendaView.akt?p=

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

High speed rail funding threatened

Congress is threatening to eliminate the country’s fledgling high-speed

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Major milestone reached in SB 375?

On March 11th, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) will release their “Initial

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Save Caltrain!

Caltrain faces an immediate budget deficit of $30 million — nearly one-third of its budget — and has threatened major service cuts.