Recent Streetsblog SF posts about CC Puede

Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2014 | 13 Comments

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. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]

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Neighbors Welcome a Calmer, Greener Bryant Street Near Cesar Chavez

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 15, 2013 | 8 Comments

Residents are enjoying a more livable outer Bryant Street since the city implemented a road diet last month, reducing four traffic lanes to two (plus left-turn bays at some intersections) between 23rd and Cesar Chavez Streets. Neighbors joined Friends of the Urban Forest on Sunday on the block between 26th Street and Cesar Chavez to add […]

Cesar Chavez Street Redesign Plan Headed to SFMTA Board for Approval

By Fran Taylor | Nov 29, 2010 | 31 Comments

An SFMTA hearing room erupted into applause Friday, November 19, when John Newlin, a hearing officer at the SFMTA, ruled that the massive Cesar Chavez Street redesign should move on to the full SFMTA Board. Supporters of the plan, led by CC Puede, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and other community groups, swamped opposition. The […]

Technology and Impotence

By Chris Carlsson | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

The BP oil spill goes on. And on. We watch the oil on live web cam pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. And we watch. Political rage is muted, practical responses even more distant. What to do? How do we “take action” on something like this? How can individuals meaningfully respond to this catastrophe? Stop driving? Boycott one brand of gas? Stop buying things made of plastic?

Cesar Chavez Street Redesign a Test Case For Better Agency Coordination

By Matthew Roth | Jan 20, 2010 | 9 Comments

Concept for Mission and Cesar Chavez intersection redesign. Image: Planning Department It appears 2010 is the year the stewards of San Francisco’s streets have marked to figure out how to cooperate with each other to design and build a better realm. While the much touted Better Streets Plan synthesizes best practice principles and standards for […]

San Francisco Starts Building Green Streets For Stormwater Management

By Matthew Roth | Nov 18, 2009 | 10 Comments

Without question, Portland’s Greenstreets program is the benchmark for American cities seeking to manage storm water and runoff from the street level before it enters the sanitation system pipes. Now, San Francisco is on its way to constructing its first on-street stormwater facilities in two places in the Bayview and Visitation Valley, pilots that should […]

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