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SF Planning Unveils Design for a More Ped-Friendly Broadway in Chinatown

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 8, 2012 | 19 Comments

The SF Planning Department this week unveiled its final design for pedestrian improvements on a stretch of Broadway in Chinatown. The design, which was narrowed down through an extensive community planning process, would add sidewalk extensions, crosswalk improvements, trees, seating, lighting, and bike sharrows between the Broadway Tunnel and Columbus Avenue. The plan [PDF] would […]

Chinatown Businesses Thrive During a Week Without Car Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2012 | 6 Comments

What would happen if, one day, the city decided to make better use of the car parking on a commercial corridor like Stockton Street in Chinatown? “What about the businesses?” opponents might exclaim. “Where would their customers park?” The myth of the urban driving shoppers was debunked again over the past week or so, when […]

Planning Department Releases Tentative Street Redesigns for Broadway

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 24, 2011 | 23 Comments

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 […]

Board of Supes Resolution Urges Free Muni Passes for Low-Income Youth

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 27, 2011 | 24 Comments

A growing number of low-income youth who depend on public transit in San Francisco are finding it harder to afford the trip to class, but a resolution introduced by Supervisor David Campos this week could pave the way toward providing free Muni passes for the rest of the school year to thousands of students who […]

Chinatown Group Analyzes Pedestrian Safety, Offers Plan for Improvements

By Matthew Roth | Nov 30, 2010 | 14 Comments

Chinatown’s crowded sidewalks, unsafe crosswalks and poor pedestrian signage are not likely to be among the endearing physical characteristic featured in any tourist brochure. Yet in a recent study — the San Francisco Chinatown Pedestrian Safety Needs Assessment [pdf] and Safety Plan [pdf] conducted by the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) — those issues were […]

Dreaming of Pedestrian Heaven on San Francisco’s Oldest Street

By Michael Rhodes | May 4, 2010 | 35 Comments

Enjoying a car-free Grant Avenue at Noodle Fest. Photo: Michael Rhodes Could San Francisco’s first and oldest thoroughfare become the city’s first true pedestrianized street? Since the day in 1835 when William Richardson drew the first map of Yerba Buena that included just one street, called "Calle de la fundacion" — Foundation Street, which ran […]

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