Planning Department Releases Tentative Street Redesigns for Broadway
The Planning Department, working with the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), the SFMTA and SFDPW, recently released three options for dramatically improving the pedestrian environment on a two-and-a-half block stretch of Broadway, a high-volume two-way arterial that cuts through North Beach and Chinatown, a neighborhood that is "the most densely populated urban area west of Manhattan."
August 24, 2011
Speak Out on Eastern Cesar Chavez at Tonight’s Community Workshop
The San Francisco Planning Department, the SFMTA and other city officials will present the new designs for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street to the community tonight, and a strong attendance is key. You're encouraged to show up tonight and speak out in support of improvements that will transform the street environment for pedestrians and bicyclists.
August 24, 2011
SFBC Releases Mayoral Candidates Q&A: Who Will Be the Favorites?
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has posted the responses from its questionnaires submitted to the mayoral candidates, as the organization's 12,000 members begin voting on who to endorse in the November 8th election. Almost all of the sixteen candidates responded, with the exception of Michela Alioto-Pier and Jeff Adachi.
August 23, 2011
Young Woman Killed by Muni Driver Remembered in the Castro
Her name was Emily Dunn, and over the weekend, a steady stream of friends and people who never knew her brought flowers, candles and photos of her to the site in the Castro where the young woman was killed Friday afternoon by a Muni driver. A grief-stricken friend, who I met Saturday, said Dunn, who was only 23, had moved to San Francisco from Atlanta a month ago and was just beginning a new life.
August 22, 2011
SFPD Numbers Confirm Cops Targeting Bicyclists on Market Street
Despite the department's insistence that officers are not targeting bicyclists on Market Street, new numbers from the San Francisco Police Department confirm that cops are going after people on bikes following two high-profile crashes.
August 19, 2011