SPUR Lunchtime Forum: Looking ahead: San Francisco’s financial future

"What happens if we have yet another year of jobless recovery? What if the real estate market continues to decline? What is the long-term impact of such trends on local government revenues? Join us for a discussion about San Francisco’s long-term financial outlook. With an inside view and predictions from San Francisco’s Chief Economist, Ted Egan."

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Better Streets Plan Discussion on KALW Radio Tonight

By Bryan Goebel |
City Visions Radio will be discussing the Better Streets Plan tonight, looking "into San Francisco’s evolving bicycle and pedestrian plans, and how this ties into a long-term vision for San Francisco’s streets." Host Joseph Pace will be joined by Marc Caswell, the program manager for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Manish Champsee, the president of […]

Kia Car Ad Touts Bike-Friendly Attitude

By Aaron Bialick |
A new Canadian television ad for the Kia Sportage, filmed in San Francisco’s Financial District, markets an attitude of acceptance about the responsibility of sharing the road with bicycles. It’s quite a contrast from the conventional image of cars as an embodiment of power and dominance. While the ad encourages drivers to share the road, […]

Artisans and the economy

By Aaron Bialick |
From SPUR: To celebrate the first annual “Made in San Francisco Week,” join us for an exploration of the role artisan manufacturing plays in San Francisco’s local economy and as a path to self-sufficiency for craftspeople. We will visit Tech Shop, a newly opened membership-based workshop offering access to tools, equipment and instruction; Bonton, one […]

Livable Streets Expert Enrique Peñalosa Comes to San Francisco

By Michael Rhodes |
San Francisco’s livable streets advocates have a chance to participate in a public forum tomorrow with Enrique Peñalosa, who, as mayor of traffic-clogged Bogotá, Colombia, implemented a s⁞weeping set of improvements to transit and the pedestrian realm. A public plaza in Bogotá, Columbia. These initiatives include the Ciclovia, a model for San Francisco’s own Sunday […]

San Francisco’s Unbuilt Freeway Network Revisited

By Matthew Roth |
Some of San Francisco’s unbuilt freeways Hunter College student and photographer Andrew Lynch recently posted Google Map mashups of the unbuilt freeways that made up many of the master plans in cities around the country in the 1950s and 1960s.  San Francisco, New York City, and Boston avoided the worst of automobility, while the map […]

San Francisco’s Transportation Plan

By Aaron Bialick |
From SPUR: San Francisco is in the middle of updating its 25-year transportation plan, which includes policy goals such as shifting more travel away from cars and making better use of streets as public space. Come learn what investments are included in the plan, how they are funded and how San Francisco’s overall transportation funding […]