Commentary: No Gas-Tax Holiday for Oversize Trucks
Tell me again why we all need to pay for your giant, jacked up truck?
March 9, 2022
Manchin Machinations Seem Promising for Bullet Train
Funding to the tune of $66 billion was allotted for Amtrak and other forms of passenger rail in the national infrastructure bill signed last year. Will California's bullet train will get the cash it needs to move forward?
March 8, 2022
New Film Shows People Benefiting from Car-Free Great Walkway
Filmmakers push back against false narrative that open spaces are for "elites"
March 7, 2022
SPUR Talk: Time for a Parking Intervention?
There are about two parking spots for every resident of the Bay Area, or 2.4 for every car.
February 28, 2022
Reality Overtakes Hyperloop
News broke over the weekend that Virgin Hyperloop has let almost half of its staff go, making over a hundred employees redundant.
The company is ostensibly turning from passenger goals to freight. But what exactly is the market for 700 mph ground freight?
February 22, 2022
THE DREAM DIES? Oakland Ends Slow Streets
The city that pioneered Slow Streets at the start of the pandemic is now cancelling the program. We talk to an activist about future plans to preserve some streets and bring back a more robust version of the program in the future.
February 15, 2022
Editorial: Street Safety in the Time of Leeches
What do the Brisbane Complete Streets Committee members have in common with parasitic, blood-sucking worms?
February 10, 2022
Editorial: Let’s Build Incomplete Streets
The Bay Area's transportation agencies need to build a balanced transportation system, not new car lanes under the moniker of "complete streets"
February 2, 2022
That Bridge in Pittsburgh is Where I became an Advocate
After seeing the collapse of such a hauntingly familiar site, I hope the President really will "build back better"
January 28, 2022
SPUR Talk: Will the Bay Area Finally Get Integrated Transit?
Maybe new people with some enthusiasm are what's really needed to fix Bay Area transit
January 20, 2022
