Discover McLaren Park Walk
From WalkSF:
Our next walk will explore McLaren Park, our city’s second-largest park! We’ll be discovering treasures in this former Spanish rancho like community gardens, a creek and marshland, walking trails, and more!
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SPUR Talk: Strategies for San Francisco’s Second Biggest Park
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“How many of you have been to McLaren Park?” asked Dawn Kamalanathan of San Francisco Recreation and Parks to kick off a discussion yesterday at SPUR’s Urban Center in downtown San Francisco about the future of San Francisco’s second-largest recreational facility. Nearly everyone in the audience raised their hands. But, of course, that was just […]
Separated Bike-Ped Path Coming to Mansell Street in McLaren Park by 2016
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Mansell Street, which runs through McLaren Park, is poised to get a two-way bikeway and a walking and jogging path separated from motor traffic under a plan approved by the Recreation and Parks Commission last week. Mansell is a wide roadway with no dedicated space for walking and biking, and its four traffic lanes are […]
Commentary: Sidewalk Sitting? No Way! Sidewalk Parking? Stay All Day!
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Photo: San Francisco Department of Sidewalk Parking. One weighs 200 pounds or less, the other maybe two tons or more. One is involved in odd scuffles, the other in nearly 40,000 deaths nationwide each year. One is being targeted by the mayor and the press in San Francisco, the other sails under the radar. Even […]
A Safer Polk Street vs. Preserving a Sliver of Parking
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A new entity that calls itself the “Save Polk Street Coalition” has come out against the developing plan to improve safety for people walking and biking on Polk Street because it would entail removing some parking spaces. The group’s website, which doesn’t identify any of the businesses or residents it claims to represent, decrees: “STOP the radical agenda […]
This Week: Car-Free Twin Peaks, Human Centered Design, Treasure Hunt
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday New Strategies from the SFMTA. What is the future of the city’s buses and light rail? The SFMTA recently developed two new strategies: one that details what it will take for every San Franciscan to have access to a high level of light rail service, and […]
Pandering to the Parking-First Contingent Won’t Win Transportation Funding
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Some pretty specious rationales are being used to peddle some pretty terrible recent transportation policy decisions in San Francisco. Yesterday, the SFMTA Board of Directors repealed Sunday parking metering, caving to pressure from Mayor Ed Lee. Board members said they bought into the mayor’s thinking that bringing back free Sunday parking would help win support for […]