July 3, 20125 Comments on A San Francisco transit alleycat
SPUR (San Francisco Planning and Urban Resarch) has organized a transit scavenger hunt race from Ocean Beach in San Francisco to the SPUR Urban Center on Mission at Montgomery Street.
June 14, 20126 Comments on Human Transit
A year ago last spring I attended Transportation Camp in San Francisco. This was a gathering of transportation wonks and users who came together to come up with new ideas and solutions to improve transportation. I mostly participated in the public transportation discussions, where the professionals and the schmucks like me mostly talked past each other on ideas to improve public transportation.
This morning, I’m watching the tweets from everybody caught up in today’s Transbay quagmire, and I’m reminded of my frustration with that conference. But things are different for me today. Now I am informed because I have Read A Book on the topic of public transportation.
June 1, 2012Leave a Comment
Jarrett Walker, author of the Human Transit blog and a new book by the same name, will be in San Jose and San Francisco next week to talk about developing effective public transportation systems. This talk is not just for wonks — as a long time transit professional with a PhD in theater arts from Stanford, Walker writes and speaks jargon-free English and has a very approachable, common sense style, which is why I’m a fan of his blog.
May 30, 2012Leave a Comment
May 24, 20121 Comment on Sunnyvale Council: “We like traffic sewers!”
Sunnyvale City Council nixes Bus Rapid Transit planning for El Camino Real.
The Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Agency (VTA) is the transportation planning agency and transit provider for Silicon Valley in California. 20% of VTA’s bus passengers ride bus routes 22 & 522 along the historic El Camino Real (ECR). TO handle the transportation needs of projected population growth along the ECR corridor, VTA plans a Bus Rapid Transit line (BRT) along the historic El Camino Real between downtown San Jose and Palo Alto, California.
April 25, 20124 Comments on Emergency Ride Home
“What if something happens?”
A family emergency is one of those common theoretical fears that keep some people from biking to work. Many local transportation agencies and employers offer “Emergency Ride Home” or “Guaranteed Ride Home” programs to help alleviate that fear and encourage commuters to try a form of transportation other than the Single Occupant Vehicle (SOV)