Safe Street Rebel, a covert coalition of independent safety advocates, installed safe-hit posts and other features along San Francisco’s Wiggle bike route early Tuesday morning. According to a statement released by the group, the “Slower Safer Wiggle” installation involved three main parts: Installing prominent median soft-hit signs along one block of Steiner adjacent to Duboce Park, identifying this crucial artery and signaling to cars that bikes and pedestrians should have the right of way. Adding median flex posts, which, along with the signs, force cars that normally speed along this blo ..read more

Speed Limiter Bill Would No Longer Limit Speed? (SFChron) Another Murdering Driver Gets Slap on Wrist (SFChron) Advocates Want to Tax Uber to Fund Muni (SFStandard) More on West Portal Car Brains Putting Driving Convenience Over Life of Family (CBSNews) Money for Safety Improvements on International and Other Deadly Streets (EastBayTimes) More on Sausalito Ferry Service Suspension (SFChron) Details on Stonestown Housing Complex (SFChron) New U.C. Berkeley Housing Complex (Berkeleyside) How Housing Splits Political Allies (SFExaminer) Capp Street’s Bollards and Parked Cars (MissionLocal) Lette ..read more

In cities across America, U.S. advocates are fighting to stop their DOTs from expanding downtown highways and amplifying the mistakes of the past. As the saying goes, though, those battles are always bigger in Texas — and so are the odds that locals face when they try to reimagine their neighborhoods around people rather than cars. In her gripping new book, “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality and the Future of America’s Freeways,” author Megan Kimble chronicles the ongoing movement to get the Texas Department of Transportation to rethink its destructive plans for three highways in downtow ..read more

“What a day to be celebrating the future of American infrastructure and to see it taking shape before our eyes,” remarked U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at yesterday’s groundbreaking for Brightline West’s high-speed rail connection between Las Vegas and Southern California. Buttigieg praised the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that contributed $3 billion to making this project happen, noting that the project spans not just two parties, but two states, and public and private sectors. Brightline West will be a 218-mile rail line from Vegas to the San Bernardino County city of Rancho ..read more

“Persistence with kindness.” “Don’t take no for an answer.” “Keep trying different things, keep pivoting.” “You have to be very persistent, and kind of annoying.” “District leaders should know who you are; light up their phones.” These consistent bits of advice formed one theme at the California Bicycle Coalition’s biennial Bike Summit, held last week in San Diego. The ideas were repeated in very different summit sessions, by advocates as well as city planners, describing their experiences trying to get rule-bound engineers to listen to them. Change Doesn’t Just Happen Former Caltrans Deputy D ..read more

Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Despite our region’s long-standing support for public transit, it’s frustrating that Bay Area transit doesn’t work well for more people. Ridership was stagnant prior to the pandemic, and is now at about 70 percent of pre-pandemic levels—one of the weakest recoveries in the nation—creating a financial crisis for Bay Area transit ..read more

Sausalito Ferry Runs Expected to Resume this Week (MarinIJ) More on Caltrain Testing Full Electrification (MassTransit) Loud West Portal Merchants Put Convenient Driving over Life (SFChron) Waymo Drives on the Wrong Side of the Road (SFChron) Cruise Pulls Back in San Francisco (SFStandard) Richmond DUI Driver Kills Child (EastBayTimes) More on Start of Vegas-LA High Speed Rail (AP) Update on Dolores Park Hill Bomb Suits (MissionLocal) Tiny Staircase Rents for $900 per Month (SFGate) Still More on SFMTA’s Floppy Disks (Newser) Letters: Who Cares if a Family Died in West Portal, Don’t Inconveni ..read more

Across the country, cities and transit agencies are taking steps to address violence on their systems — particularly against the people who work to keep our buses and trains clean and safe for everyone. But what are the root causes of that violence — and are strategies like deploying armed police actually addressing them? On today’s episode of The Brake podcast, we speak to Urban Institute Senior Research Associate Lindiwe Rennert about her research into how violence against transit workers correlates with larger problems like police brutality and income inequality — and what that me ..read more

Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. SFMTA started soliciting comment this week on plans to reconfigure the intersection of Ulloa Street and West Portal Avenue, where car traffic, trains, buses, and pedestrians currently mix. The first of three in-person outreach meetings was held Monday. There is also an online survey. The plan is to start work on the project this ..read more

Here is a list of events this week. Monday/today! West Portal Redesign Outreach. SFMTA has started outreach on plans to make the West Portal area safer in the wake of last month’s tragedy. The first meeting will be held Monday/today! April 22, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at West Portal Avenue and Vicente Street (outside Starbucks). The second meeting is Tuesday, April 23, 8-9:30 a.m. at West Portal Station (northwest corner of West Portal Avenue and Ulloa Street), and the last will be Wednesday, April 24, 4-5:45 p.m. outside the West Portal Branch Library (190 Lenox Way). Tuesday West Oakland Link ..read more