Day: August 26, 2010
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Streetsblog San Francisco is Taking a Late Summer Vacation
Starting tomorrow, we're taking a late summer vacation from publishing Streetsblog San Francisco. We'll resume our regular publishing schedule on September 7th. We hope you enjoy your Labor Day holiday and for the many of you going up to Burning Man for the Metropolis themed festivities, we hope you have fun and travel safely. See you back here soon.
August 26, 2010
Candlelight Vigil Pays Tribute to Bicyclist Killed by Drunken Driver in SF
More than a hundred people turned out last night to remember a man most of them never knew. His abrupt and violent death at the hands of a drunken driver on the city's streets had enraged and saddened them, and led to calls for immediate improvements on one of San Francisco's most notorious traffic sewers.
August 26, 2010
Presidio Parkway Could Revive a Wetland Buried by Asphalt
It may look like a forgotten military landscape, decaying beneath an elevated freeway and overgrown with weeds, but hidden beneath the abandoned buildings and broken pavement, Presidio planners see the potential to regenerate a wetland.
August 26, 2010
Proof From Jersey That Laws Protecting Crosswalks Don’t Endanger Peds
New Jersey is becoming a safer place to walk and bike, new data
shows. The state has seen an eight percent decline in traffic
fatalities, according to preliminary crash statistics for the year, and
the trend is particularly encouraging for pedestrians and cyclists,
writes Michelle Ernst at Mobilizing the Region:
August 26, 2010