Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Holy s***! San Francisco names sustainable mobility consultant Jeff Tumlin as director of the SF Municipal Transportation Agency

He's a great speaker, author of Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities, a principal at the Nelson/Nygaard transportation consulting firm. The first time I heard him talk was at the Virginia Transit Association annual meeting in Arlington County, Virginia, maybe in 2005?

-- Jeff Tumlin will join the SFMTA as Director of Transportation, SFMTA press release
-- "‘We in transportation have to clean up the mess of bad housing policy,’ says new SFMTA director," Curbed SF

Interestingly, a few years ago, he served as the transportation director for the City of Oakland for a brief time, to get their house in order and in a conversation with him he said it was one of his most interesting jobs ever.

SF MTA is an innovator:
  • including the heritage streetcar program
  • integrating parking enforcement within the agency
  • innovative pass products
  • public space enhancement/urban design programs
  • recently announcing moving Market Street to a transit prioritized street
  • etc.
Although it has problems too.

For me the rail transit system there is a particularly important example in how it is "monocentric" vis a vis the polycentric form of the BART system as discussed by Steve Belmont in Cities in Full.

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