Transportation - WIRED for the Future

With San Francisco's limited 7X7-ish real estate and anticipated influx of 1.7 million new residents to the region by 2030, we need to improve the transportation options we have and explore new ones.

WIRED magazine's new Transportation section launched January 4 with an artistic and dynamic logo.

This week, the forward-looking folks at WIRED magazine have expanded their take on transportation by giving a full top navigation section over to the topic. At the SFMTA, we split our time between operating Muni and managing the city’s streets and parking strategies and looking for solutions to tomorrow’s challenges and how to incorporate imminent opportunities. We know that often the best ideas come from outside of our own planning meetings. We've sought your vision for SF's transportation future and shared regional efforts to look ahead. It's exciting to see this important conversation expand at such a popular and multifaceted publication.

As author Alex Davies said, “After a century dominated by sprawling highways and smog-choked cities, humanity has reached the limits of its one-car-for-every-citizen culture. It’s not sustainable, and it won’t take us where we want to go tomorrow.” Well put. We need safe and accessible (both physical and financial) solutions that allow us all to pursue our dreams. As we’ve talked about here and here, San Francisco’s infrastructure has to keep pace both with increasing demand and the ravages of time. While we celebrate our past, we are also looking ahead by supporting more sustainable transporation in our parking spaces and making your smart phone an easy way to pay your Muni fare. 

We're looking forward to more WIRED pieces that highlight transit innovations and safer streets, along with their vehicle-centric reviews and lists. If you're looking for more about what to expect, check out their Top 5 Transportation Stories of 2015.

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