SPUR Lunchtime Forum: The Burnham Plan and its Legacy

By Michael Rhodes
Jun 5, 2009

"Stephen Tobriner, professor of architecture emeritus at UC Berkeley, explores Daniel Burnham’s 1905 master plan for San Francisco, a vision for the “Paris of America” that went unrealized in the wake of the 1906 disaster."

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SFMTA Installs Bike Lanes With Road Diet on Section of Outer Sloat

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 30, 2013

The SFMTA installed bike lanes on outer Sloat Boulevard last week, re-purposing two of the street’s six traffic lanes between the Great Highway and Skyline Boulevard next to the San Francisco Zoo. This one-mile redesign was one of the latter projects to be installed as part of the SF Bike Plan. There’s still a gap […]

SFMTA Board Approves Watered-Down Polk Plan, May Revisit It Later

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 3, 2015

The SFMTA Board of Directors voted today to approve the plan to redesign Polk Street with a protected bike lane along one side of the street for 10 of 20 blocks. After a four-hour hearing, the board approved the plan with the condition that SFMTA staff would report on the impacts of the project a […]

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THE BRAKE: Why Every City Needs a Car Master Plan

By Kea Wilson | Jun 7, 2022

So why do transportation leaders spend so much time drafting "pedestrian master plans" and "bike master plans" without accompanying "car master plans" aimed at building a world where fewer people get behind the wheel?

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SFMTA, Chiu Stand By Unprotected Bike Lane Proposal for Polk Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2013

Updated 5:16 p.m. with corrections on the number of blocks. The SFMTA is moving forward with a plan for Polk Street with a protected bike lane only in one direction of an 11-block stretch. SFMTA planners and Supervisor David Chiu maintain that the plan is sufficient to make the street safe enough to invite a broad range […]

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Detailed Polk Street Designs: Plans for Safe Bicycling Still “Lackluster”

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2014

The SFMTA and the Planning Department presented detailed plans for Polk Street at the project’s final open house meeting yesterday. The new aspects include specific locations of bulb-outs, dedicated bicycle signals, left turn prohibitions, loading zones, and new trees and landscaping. Plans to improve bicycle infrastructure are still composed of a mix of protected, buffered, […]

The Legal Delays Continue in San Francisco’s Bike Injunction Saga

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 22, 2010

Rob Anderson, the man who stopped San Francisco’s Bike Plan, and his attorney, Mary Miles, leave the courthouse after today’s hearing. Photo: Bryan Goebel Without playing his hand, a San Francisco Superior Court judge today gave the attorneys involved in Rob Anderson’s lawsuit against San Francisco’s Bike Plan three weeks to draft orders for how […]