Roger Rudick
Recent Posts
NASA Adopts SFMTA Decision-Making Model for Lunar Mission
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NASA managers and engineers, impressed with SFMTA's outreach and community meeting program, have decided that the next moon launch will be based on intuition, public comment, and the "better than nothing" model of orbital mechanics.
A Little Parklet Update
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A little bit about Oakland and San Francisco's parklets/shared spaces programs
Call to Action: Help Build a Better Valencia Street
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Only 13 percent of people supported abandoning the Dutch-style plan in favor of center-running in last year's SFMTA outreach. Decades of Dutch and Danish planning experience shows center-running doesn't work. But the city forges ahead despite public opinion and international best practices. Join a growing chorus and tell the city to stop gaslighting cyclists and build for safety, not parking.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Blinks on Safe Valencia
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Org gives up the fight for Dutch-style, protected bike lanes on Valencia. They're making a huge mistake.
Advocates Push Back Against Valencia Center-Running-Bike-Lane Bait-and-Switch
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Let's be clear: center running is worse than nothing
San Francisco Officially Opens Two-Way Battery Bike Lane
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It's sad that SFMTA, in 2023, with record fatalities due to traffic violence in 2022, is still "experimenting" on humans and building and boasting about such bare-bone, "better than nothing" designs.
Q&A: Councilmember Fife has had it with Oakland’s Dangerous Streets
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"I'm willing to go all the way to keep people safe" says District 3 Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife
High-Speed Rail to Vegas Clears Another Hurdle
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The dream of high-speed rail from the major cities of California to Las Vegas takes a step forward
Commentary: Western Alameda Bike/Ped Bridge Proposal Is Too Damn Complicated
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There's a reason the San Francisco Chronicle is saying it may never be built
Jeffrey Tumlin Stereotypes Cyclists, Fans Anti-bike Hate
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SFMTA director talks about civility, even as he stereotypes people on bikes and pours gasoline on anti-cyclist fervor
Q&A: High Speed Rail Update
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"We're designing a rail line from scratch to reach high speeds for the first time ever in the U.S."
Lawmaker, Walk S.F., Renew Support for Vision Zero
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Walk San Francisco and Supervisor Dean Preston try again to get San Francisco lawmakers and bureaucrats to value life over parking