Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee Meeting
Agenda [PDF]
February 3, 2014
Gov’s Report to Caltrans: Get Out of the Way of Protected Bike Lanes
Caltrans needs to stop focusing so much on moving cars and let cities build safer street designs with protected bike lanes, says a new report commissioned by Governor Jerry Brown and CA Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly.
January 31, 2014
Long-Delayed Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane Jumpstarted by DPW
In a surprising development, the Department of Public Works broke ground today on a contra-flow, protected bike lane on the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, from Market to Grove Streets (at City Hall), which are currently one-way southbound. By Bike to Work Day, two of the city's busiest bicycling streets are expected to be linked with the first bike lane in San Francisco to be protected with a landscaped median, against the flow of motor traffic.
January 31, 2014
Chuck Nevius: People Who Don’t Walk in Fear Are Part of a “Militant Cult”
When KQED asked Jason Henderson in a recent interview whether distracted pedestrians are contributing to a rise in traffic injuries and fatalities, he countered the nonsense. "Well, let's think of it this way," said Henderson, the author of Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco. "A pedestrian talking on the phone that bumps into another pedestrian is probably not going to result in a fatality."
January 30, 2014
Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street
Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements.
January 29, 2014
Survey Shows Polk Neighbors Want Safer Streets First, Not Parking
Updated 6:09 p.m. with comment from MPNA.
January 28, 2014