Streetfilm: Making a Better Market Street

Just about everyone who visits San Francisco’s grand Market Street is awed
by its hustle and bustle, the myriad modes of transportation, and some
of the beautiful architecture the city hosts. But just about everyone
also agrees that Market Street has a much bigger potential as a people
space that accommodates its users in more efficient and human terms.
Parts of the street are in disrepair; whole blocks contain more boarded
up facades than functioning businesses.

Streetfilms was able to talk to many advocates who would like to see
a different configuration of Market Street. Folks who have already
invested time in making it better, and thoughts from passerby who use
it as a daily commuting option. It’s fair too say not all ideas are
universal accepted across all with a stake in Market Street, but
hopefully their thoughts can serve as a springboard to a bigger
discussion on what to do when the street is finally re-examined and
re-paved.

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

Market Street Prototyping Festival

|
From Market Street Prototyping Festival: Market Street runs through the heart of our beautiful city, yet it can feel uninviting and disconnected. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Planning Department, and the James L. Knight Foundation believe that Market Street should bring together people from different neighborhoods and backgrounds. That’s why they’ve joined […]
Purple light shows a Muni subway heading inbound, while an M or (a Daly City BART train?) heads outbound...somewhere below. Image: Illuminate

See Subway Trains from the Surface of Market Street

|
Imagine standing on Market Street and seeing bars of colored lights move over the street, tracking the location of the BART and Muni vehicles below. Yesterday evening, Illuminate, a San Francisco artists collaborative, held a demonstration of “Lightrail,” a proposed project from artists George Zisiadis and Stefano Corazza, for Market Street. The demonstration, which was held in a […]

Safer Market Street Community Meeting #1

|
From SFMTA: As part of the Vision Zero project, SFMTA is implementing turn restrictions onto Market Street which will decrease the number of private vehicles driving along this corridor. The focus area, a five-block expanse between 3rd Street and 8th Street/Hyde Street, is where an overwhelming number of traffic-related accidents occur. This community meeting will explain why these changes are […]