Bay Area bike commuters transportation mode share and gender split for 2012

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Last year, we looked at bike commute numbers for San Francisco Bay Area cities as estimated by the US Census American Community Survey. The numbers for 2012 are now out, so let’s see how these cities fared.

“Street Fight” tonight in San Francisco

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SFSU Associate Professor of Geography Dr Jason Henderson will speak tonight at the Green Arcade to discuss the built environment in San Francisco and other topics spinning off from his book Street Fight: the Politics of Mobility in San Francisco. Henderson covers the recent history of San Francisco’s transportation politics, beginning with the freeway revolt […]

Massachusetts Department of Transportation formalizes Healthy Transportation policy

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The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has issued a policy directive to require ways to increase what they call healthy transportation — walking, bicycling, and transit — for every project funded by MassDOT or with MassDOT design oversight to meet the state’s goal of tripling the miles traveled with active transportation by the year 2030. […]