Thanks to All Who Came Out for Streetsblog Happy Hour
I think we can declare last night's Streetsblog happy hour to be a huge success. It was awesome to get to meet so many of you. Several dozen of you came out for some great chats, and the show of support was heartwarming.
May 23, 2014
“Closing” Lombard Street: The Language of Taking Cars For Granted
A peculiar thing tends to happen when we talk about streets and transportation: We don't talk about cars. Seriously -- listen to conversations, read news headlines, and you'll start to notice that even when cars are the main subject, people will, consciously or unconsciously, fail to explicitly mention them.
May 23, 2014
Census: SF Has Enough Street Parking Spaces To Fill CA’s Coastline
Clarification: California's coastline (840 miles) is shorter than the end-to-end length of SF's on-street parking spaces alone (900 miles). This post originally compared it to the length of SF's total public parking supply (1,451 miles long), which is actually longer than the United States' west coast from Mexico to Canada (1,360 miles).
May 22, 2014