New service comes to GGT today, but nothing restored
Image from Golden Gate Transit. The latest schedule adjustment to GGT’s buses goes into effect today, and it offers mixed news for commuters. While GGT did expand service between San Francisco and...
View ArticleMissing buses continue on GGT
From GGT Despite promises to the contrary, Golden Gate Transit’s personnel woes have continued. Despite yet another opportunity to make their schedule match their personnel for a second time, GGT...
View ArticleNew GGT schedule cuts Route 80, but more could be done
In GGT’s quarterly schedule adjustment, the agency will do as it planned this past summer and cut the long-suffering Route 80, a plodding local bus route that stopped at every bus stop from San...
View ArticleA third lane on the Richmond Bridge is just a bandage
from MTC The push for a third lane to Richmond has sucked a lot of the air out of the conversation over Central Marin traffic. Cut-through drivers from San Francisco to Richmond are taking up all the...
View ArticleMore people are speeding on the Golden Gate Bridge – here’s why
The new barrier and the bridge during closure. Image by David Yu, on Flickr When the new Golden Gate Bridge barrier opened, it was heralded as a new age of safety, but there were rumblings of problems...
View ArticleSan Rafael needs a progressive after Nader Mansourian
First up: if you’re interested in becoming a new Director of Public Works for a small city, apply by the end of today. Downtown San Rafael, Image from the Business Improvement District. For years, San...
View ArticleWill anything ever change in Marin?
Not again. Image from KRON4 News With the death of Aura Celeste Machado on Point San Pedro Road in San Rafael still fresh in our minds, neighbors and safe streets activists are again calling for...
View ArticleNew apartments coming to San Rafael with some very expensive parking
Where the new homes will be. On Wednesday, news broke that San Rafael could soon find itself home to another 162 households, thanks to a proposed redevelopment of the Third Street garage and a couple...
View ArticleThe injustice of bundled parking
Just a few million dollars here. The other day, we looked at a new apartment building proposed for downtown San Rafael with mindbogglingly expensive parking and tried to determine how the project could...
View ArticleCitizen Marin slate loses big – what does it mean for their coalition?
In the aftermath of elections in three Marin County supervisorial races where incumbents prevailed handsomely and West Marin’s Al Dugan notched a dismal fourth place, behind progressive third-place...
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