Search Results for "Howard Chabner"
The Museums Want One More Crack at Ending Car Free Streets
The San Francisco Examiner reports that a new ballot measure has been filed with the City of San Francisco, which its proponents are calling "Access for All." If successful, the measure would:
June 15, 2022
As SFMTA Looks to Calm Traffic on Scott, Parking Warriors Get Loud
The SFMTA held a public meeting last week about how to calm traffic on three blocks of Scott Street along the Wiggle. On the table are design features that would signal drivers to slow down and possibly prevent them from using the street as a cut-through route. Even though planners say the project may remove few, if any, parking spaces, a familiar handful of pro-car activists showed up to fume about the agency's livable streets projects in general.
September 3, 2013
Supes Farrell and Cohen Have Yet to Grasp Why Free Parking Hurts SF
Mark Farrell and Malia Cohen emerged as the most vocal proponents of free car parking on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at a hearing on parking meters last week. Farrell called the hearing in February based on an admittedly "unfounded" suspicion that the SF Municipal Transportation Agency was planning to install parking meters in District 2, which he represents.
May 6, 2013
Supes Reject Legal Appeal Against Fell/Oak Bikeways and Ped Upgrades
A legal appeal filed against protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety upgrades on three blocks of Fell and Oak Streets was rejected unanimously by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Construction on the project, currently underway the SF Municipal Transportation Agency beginning with the Fell Street protected bike lane, will not be halted by the appeal.
December 12, 2012
Standing Up to Legal Appeal, SFMTA Moves Ahead With Fell Street Bike Lane
Opponents of the Fell and Oak Street bikeway and pedestrian improvements filed an appeal last week seeking to delay implementation of street safety measures on the critical three-block stretch linking the Panhandle to the Wiggle, but the legal gambit will not slow down construction of the bike lane on Fell currently underway, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency says.
November 14, 2012