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DPW to Re-Pave a Major Stretch of Market Street This Weekend
By Aaron Bialick |
The outer lanes of Market Street will be re-paved between Van Ness Avenue and Sixth Street this weekend, the Department of Public Works announced today. The work is scheduled to start on Friday at 7 p.m. and finish within 24 hours. “This will be a major improvement to the city’s most important bicycling street,” said SF […]
The Outside Lands Transpo Crunch: Bringing 65K People Per Day to GG Park
By Aaron Bialick |
For the fifth year, San Francisco’s transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival. With festival goers traveling from near and far, promoters have tried each year to curb the number of people arriving […]
Castro Street Redesign Breaks Ground, Rainbow Crosswalks Unveiled
By Aaron Bialick |
The new Castro Street is on its way, with the Department of Public Works breaking ground today on the two-block street redesign, which will include wider sidewalks. One detail of the plan was also unveiled at the event — rainbow crosswalk designs for the Castro and 18th Street intersection. “This streetscape project will be transformational […]
17th Street Plaza Trial Extended Four Months
By Matthew Roth |
Photo: geekstinkbreath At yesterday’s Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation (ISCOTT) meeting, where decisions about temporary street closures are decided by all the agencies that have anything to do with streets and events on streets, the trial pedestrian plaza at 17th Street and Market Street received easy approval for a four month extension. Heads […]
Survivors of Traffic Violence Remember
By Roger Rudick |
Families urge city leaders to say "crash" not "accident" at this year's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
This Week: Converting Offices, Central Subway, Bike to Wherever Day
By Roger Rudick |
Here is a list of events this week.