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If a taxi’s window is down, listen for the sound of a receipt being printed. It means a door is about to open. Ride with the flow of traffic, the teacher said, or be prepared to “spend the rest of your day in the hospital and the rest of your year filling out insurance paperwork.”
New York Times -
By the end of this month, New Yorkers should finally be able to start using Citi Bike, the city's long-delayed bike-share program. And thank goodness for that. For the last year, and even more so over the past several weeks since docking stations began to be installed all over the city, local media coverage has appeared to reflect something akin to a collective public meltdown over these bicycles. From the perspective of a city like Washington, D.C., where bike-share has not only been around for some time but proved to be a massive success, it's been a frustrating, if occasionally amusing, trajectory to watch unfold.
Atlantic Cities -
It looks like an answer won’t be coming soon as to whether or not the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will be able to open as scheduled come Labor Day.
KCBS -
The Association of Bay Area Governments is in the process of setting regional housing allocations for the next eight years in our nine-county Bay Area. Each city and county in the region must zone adequate sites to meet its ABAG-assigned allocation for housing affordable to families of all income levels.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat -
Just about everything needed for the San Francisco 49ers' new $1.2 billion stadium seems to cost a lot of money--even the bureaucracy. Officials are getting ready to spend $56,500 just to study whether they should paint a bik lane outside the new Santa Clara stadium.
Mercury News -
...Caltrans placed 10 accoustic sensors on select rods in early April after some of the massive bolts--3 inches in diameter and 17 to 24 feet long--snapped and triggered widespread worry about the replacement eastern span's seismic safety. The instrument records the energy produced when a crack initiates, spreads or moves within the rod...
Contra Costa Times -
Caltrain, the Peninsula's nearly 150-year-old commuter railroad, is developing a split personality. On one hand, it's thriving. Trains are carrying record crowds, packed to capacity in the morning and evening commutes, and generating unprecedented revenues. That's prompting the system to consider buying more railcars and expanding service. On the other hand, Caltrain is struggling, desperately searching for a stable source of funding so it can avoid having to cut service a year from now.
SF Chronicle -
The reason the bike lane on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles is bright fluorescent green is so drivers and bicyclists alike can see it easily and avoid running into one another. However, the very conspicuousness of that color has brought on a collision between politics and business in the city.
Los Angeles Times -
...Such delays are to be expected, says Susan Shaheen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She says cities such as New York and Chicago will ultimately benefit from the technical trial and error of bike-sharing systems in cities from Tulsa, Okla., to Chattanooga, Tenn. Shaheen also says research shows bike shares decrease accidents, giving credence to the strength-in-numbers theory pushed by bike share advocates, who suggest drivers adjust their behavior and become more cautious when more bikes are on the road.
Wall Street Journal -
...With their Transit Quality + Equity web application, (UC Berkeley's) Raymon Sutedjo-The and Sandra Lee mapped the frequency of service on every bus route in San Francisco from the week of Oct. 1-7 last year and accounted for the average delay at each stop between the scheduled and actual arrival times. That map – effectively reflecting the quality of transit service – is then shaded according to the poverty levels by census tract across the city...
Atlantic Cities