KALW’s Julie Caine overcomes her fear of speeding cars and messy helmet hair in this audio essay. Listen as Caine gets a lesson in urban cycling. Not a proverbial lesson, but a literal one, while attending a class in urban biking offered around downtown Oakland. The East Bay Bike Coalition teaches free classes in cycling…
State Senator Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) introduced legislation today that would put high-speed rail back on the November ballot in California. The measure would give voters the chance to de-authorize the $9 billion bond measure passed in 2008. According to Mark Spannagel, spokesman for Senator LaMalfa, the measure would “eliminate the project.” In a statement, LaMalfa…
Seventeen miles of bike lanes have been painted in San Francisco since summer 2010, and more are in the works, including the city’s first parking protected bikeway–a bike lane separated from car traffic by a row of parked cars. Other plans include removing a lane of parking or of traffic to lay down a dedicated bikeway….
We took KALW’s news magazine, Crosscurrents, on the road and devoted an entire show to life on two wheels in the SF Bay Area. Our intrepid (and very fit) executive news editor, Ben Trefny, hosted the show while riding 23 miles all over San Francisco. You can listen to the whole show here: In it,…
Oakland has the fifth busiest port in the country. According to the Port of Oakland, they support between 50,000 and 73,000 jobs in Northern California, making it one of the Bay Area’s biggest economic engines. The Port of Oakland says that economic development is its primary driver, but the truck drivers who make a living…
One of the expenses truckers face is paying to upgrade their rigs to meet new environmental emissions regulations for diesel engines. California has the strictest gasoline emissions regulations in the country. The “smog check” is a consuming ritual known to every Californian. Until very recently, diesel engines on freight trucks – big rigs that haul…
That’s the recommendation of Senator Dianne Feinstein, who sent a letter Monday to California Governor Jerry Brown urging him to combine the state’s High-Speed Rail Authority with the California Department of Transportation.
California Governor Jerry Brown released his 2012-2013 budget yesterday — six days earlier than planned — after the document was accidentally posted on the state’s Department of Finance website. And yes: it still funds high-speed rail. The proposal calls for $15.9 million in administrative support for the High-Speed Rail Authority, regardless of what happens with…
Last year, commuters of all kinds came to terms with one fact: getting somewhere, anywhere, is harder than it used to be. Here in the Bay Area, drivers faced higher gas prices and bridge tolls. In the East Bay, AC Transit riders dealt with fewer bus lines and increased fares. San Francisco MUNI riders faced…
(San Francisco – KALW) The Bay Area had a tumultuous year in transportation, a more acute example of many trends taking hold around the nataion. (See other year in review posts here.) In 2011 we watched a still a roller coaster ride for California’s high-speed rail plan, covered the perils of being a pedestrian in…
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