First Sunday Streets of 2010 A Big Hit
On an incredible spring day with temperatures in the 60s, thousands of people descended on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the first Sunday Streets of 2010, riding, skating, dancing, hula hooping, and swinging in the coolest bicycle-powered amusement park ride I've ever seen.
March 15, 2010
Today’s Headlines
MTC, Regional Transit Operators Want Local Control of Taxes for Transit (NY Times) Sac Bee Op-Ed Calls for Broad National Infrastructure Vision, Steady Transit Funding CA Transit Projects Seen as Model for National Transit Funding (SF Gate) High Speed Rail Bond Could Fund Local Operator Improvements (Examiner) Examiner Looks at Pending Muni Riders Union Mayor … Continued
March 15, 2010
Eyes on the Street: A Bird Behind the Bridge and Parrots on a Pole
Thanks you as always for adding your beautiful photos to our Streetsblog San Francisco Flickr pool. Please send us your best shots and we might feature them on the blog. Anyone have a picture of the parrots flying around Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill?
March 12, 2010
Eyes on the Street: Mojo Cafe Gets a Wider Sidewalk
With the official unveiling of the new Mojo Cafe "parklet" coming early next week, RG Architecture's crew (with volunteers from the SF Great Streets Project) scrambled to complete the wooden sidewalk extension with enough time to work out any kinks before Mayor Gavin Newsom heralds the innovation with a crowd of media and elected officials standing on it.
March 12, 2010
Today’s Headlines
First Sunday Streets of the Year is This Sunday (Bike NOPA) (Examiner)(KCBS) (NBC) Mayor Newsom Invites Public for MTA Board Post (SF Appeal) (N-Judah) Nat Ford Says Sunday Meters Are Back on the Table (SF Appeal) SF City Leaders Ask Schwarzenegger to Approve Transportation Bill (Examiner) Boy Falls Out of Moving 38-Geary Bus, Investigation Underway … Continued
March 12, 2010
Eyes on the Street: Market and 10th Get New Bike Lane Design
After experimenting with one configuration for soft-hit posts for a few weeks along Market Street approaching 10th Street, the MTA has changed the configuration to give cyclists more room in approaching the intersection. The new soft hit posts extend from just before the intersection at 11th Street and Market up to 10th Street in the eastbound direction and the lane has a larger painted buffer.
March 11, 2010
The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street
With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put out bids for a three-year design and transportation plan that will remake the most iconic street in San Francisco.
March 11, 2010
San Francisco Designing Public Amenities in Empty Lots
At a forum hosted by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) yesterday, panelists representing landscape architecture firms and Mayor Gavin Newsom's Office of Economic and Workforce Development (MOEWD) outlined several projects they are designing to utilize stalled development plots for interim green space and community benefit.
March 10, 2010
Streetscast: Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google’s Bike Map
The wait for bicycle directions on Google Maps has finally ended as the company announced a beta version of its new bicycle directions feature at the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. this morning. The new mapping software includes an elegant overlay of bicycle routes based on priority bicycle streets and paths in the 150 cities where Google is debuting the service.
March 10, 2010