Transportation
Treasure Island challenge appealed to California Supreme Court
Critics of current plans to build 8,000 new homes and acres of commercial and office space on Treasure Island — despite the challenge of...
Contending with cars, at the polls and on vacation
STREET FIGHT San Francisco's politics of mobility devolved into a cesspit this summer. Beginning with Mayor Ed Lee's retreat on Sunday parking meters, purportedly...
Too many parking tickets in SF
By David Hegarty OPINION San Francisco made $87 million in parking citation revenue in 2012; roughly double what the city made off actual paid...
Film festival organizers call for safer San Francisco streets
Editor’s Note: Aug. 19 marks the Bay Area Global Health Film Festival, hosted by the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology. The theme of this...
Lee and Pelosi talk middle class jobs in unequal SF
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-SF) joined Mayor Ed Lee at a press conference yesterday at Yerba Buena across from the construction site...
Shahum leaving SF Bike Coalition to study Vision Zero
San Francisco cyclists are losing a key advocate — but this and other US cities may next year gain a knowledgable new leader for...
The last Republican
BART Director James Fang faces a well-funded challenge for reelection
Mayoral meltdown
Mayor Ed Lee pushes back against ballot measures for affordable housing, transportation funding
Read the memo detailing Mayor Ed Lee’s punishment of supervisors who supported Muni
The story is snowballing.Mayor Ed Lee is furious at supervisors who voted for Sup. Scott Wiener's Muni funding measure, and told reporters Monday he...
Will San Francisco voters give Muni more money to serve a growing population?
Beating up on Muni and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is a perennial pastime for many San Franciscans, who will be given the...
King of the commons
Departing director of Sunday Streets made community organizing the key to opening up public space
Guardian Intelligence: July 23 – 29, 2014
J-POP ROCKEDThe annual J-Pop Summit in Japantown drew a lively crowd of anime and other Japanese pop culture treasures to Japantown last weekend (including...
Alternative Ink discusses the flurry of SF ballot measures moving through City Hall
Digging deep during the height of summertime fun and frivolity, we Guardianistas showed up in force last night for another lively and informative edition...
San Francisco to study dropping speed limit to 20 mph for pedestrian safety
As a part of a citywide effort to eliminate all pedestrian deaths by 2024, San Francisco will study the impact of reducing speed limits...
Motorists fight back
Ballot measure seeks to prioritize cars and undermine SF's "transit-first" policy
Guardian Intelligence: July 16 – 22
HIGH ON KAWAIIThe J-POP Summit returns to Japantown Sat/19-Sun/20, unleashing a riot of Japanese pop culture. We're talking a fashion competition sponsored by frill...
Treasure Island development plans moving forward after lawsuit rejected
Construction on the first 1,000 of up to 8,000 new homes planned for Treasure Island could begin as soon as next year after the...
Motorists fight back in “transit-first” San Francisco
Believing that they’re somehow discriminated against on the streets of San Francisco, a new political coalition of motorists, conservatives, and neighborhood NIMBYs yesterday ...
Alerts: July 9 – 15, 2014
WEDNESDAY 9 Talk on gun control Commonwealth Club SF Club Office, 595 Market, SF. 6pm, $20 non-members, $12 members, $7 students. Michael Waldman, president of the...
Guardian Intelligence: July 9 – 15
LUNCH WITH RHYTHMStarting Wednesday, and running through early October, People In Plazas hosts a series of free, outdoor musical concerts during lunchtime (shows usually...
Workers’ new website demands: Hey, Tech, do better
Can Silicon Valley tech companies “do better?” With the launch of a new website, the tech industry's security guards are coming forward with tales...
Google Bus sewers
Bulky shuttles belong on car-centric corridors, not neighborhood streets
Pumping up awareness
Campaign to put climate change warnings at gas stations gains traction in Berkeley and San Francisco
Free Sunday meters challenge rejected, SFMTA board’s independence questioned
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to reject an environmental appeal of the decision to repeal paying for parking meters on Sundays, which...