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Want to hear and participate in a thought-provoking discussion about planning regional transportation? Tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. you can head on down to SPUR's (a.k.a. the San Francisco Planning + Research Association) office at 312 Sutter St. (@ Grant), 5th floor. While open to the public, it will cost you $5 if you're not a member (membership details can be found here).
The discussion will involve regional social justice, transit, walking, and bicycling advocates, and is coordinated by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC), in an effort to influence the next Regional Transportation Plan. Attendees will:
Hear Executive Director Stuart Cohen discuss TALC’s platform regarding equity, safe routes to school, effective transit, and smart growth. . . . the platform also discusses innovative ideas to raise funds for the transportation infrastructure of the region’s future.
Speaking of SPUR: If you're in the mood for a little not-so-light reading, you can check out the public-policy think tank's monthly newsletter, Urbanist -- the August issue focuses on waterfront redevelopment and holds good examples of the policy papers these folks concern themselves with.
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SPUR is a great organization.
Also of interest is this video documentary about vehicle congestion called “Contested Streets: Breaking New York City Gridlock,” available for viewing over high speed Internet connections
from Free Speech TV via their web site using this link: http://tinyurl.com/yw9fgt
You may also visit the program’s web site at www.contestedstreets.com to buy a DVD copy of the documentary.
Since the topic of congestion charges/tolls may come up this week if San Francisco wins a $200 grant from the US Dept. of Transportation, this video shows what COULD be if Alioto-Pier and her variety open their minds to options beyond building more parking garages and paving more roadways to "relieve congestion" in the City. We can learn a thing or two from this video's examples of Copenhagen, Paris, and London streetscapes, transit, and opportunities for informal interaction between neighbors and strangers in their downtown areas.