Aaron Bialick

The vast majority of San Francisco's street space is devoted primarily to moving and storing cars, and most of that curbside parking for private automobiles is given away for free. Most of the city's street infrastructure is not paid for by fees related to driving, so it is disproportionately bankrolled by those who don't drive, through general taxes. By any objective measure, the state of affairs on San Francisco's streets is heavily tilted toward cars and designed to incur minimal personal cost to drivers.

From Bike East Bay:

From Bike East Bay:

From Bike East Bay:

The Warriors announced this week that the site for the basketball team's proposed arena would be moved from Piers 30-32 on the Embarcadero to Mission Bay, quelling opposition from waterfront development foes. Whether or not the new site will work out for better or worse in terms of accessibility to regional transit, however, is still up for debate.

It's happened again: street space was re-allocated from cars to people, and the unbearable traffic jams opponents warned of have failed to materialize. In fact, some of them even like the result now.

Updated 4/23 2:45 p.m. with corrected project timelines for the painted bus lanes.

The SF Fire Department needs to replace its aging fire trucks soon, and Supervisor Scott Wiener says the department should use the purchase to take advantage of more versatile models that other cities are using to navigate narrow streets.

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Photo courtesy of Flickr user Thomas Hawk See your neighborhood through the eyes of your district supervisor. Join Supervisor David Campos on this walking tour of District 9 landmarks as he takes us to some of his favorite spots in a community that includes the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola. This event is generously sponsored by Kaiser … Continued