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Ballot Primer for an Election that Will Drive You to Drink
Yesterday evening, over 220 people squeezed into the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's (SPUR) downtown S.F. location to hear the organization's policy experts explain which ballot measures they are endorsing. With 25 measures on the San Francisco ballot this November 8, each of the six SPUR experts spent just a few minutes on each decision--and it still took nearly two hours to get through them all.
October 12, 2016
Rail~Volution: All-Things-Rail Conference Comes to San Francisco
Some 1,200 planners, engineers, managers and transit journalists crowded into the San Francisco Hyatt Regency this week for the Rail~Volution conference. From the conference press release:
October 11, 2016
SFMTrA Takes it Up a Notch with Glue-down Safety Posts in Golden Gate Park
San Francisco cyclists may have noticed a safety improvement at JFK and Kezar, where Golden Gate Park meets the Panhandle. That notorious intersection now has more than paint to segregate cars, pedestrians, and cyclists: plastic, safe-hit posts popped up late last week. And they seem to be working, effectively keeping motorists out of the bike lane.
October 5, 2016
Was the Turning Point on Taraval a Teachable Moment?
A week ago today, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency decided unanimously to move forward with concrete boarding islands on the L-Taraval. And maybe, just maybe, it was also a concrete turning point towards finally putting safety first.
September 27, 2016
SFMTA Takes Public Input to Make SoMa Safer
Last night, SFMTA held an open house at the Bayanihan Community Center in the Mission to get input on the 7th and 8th Streets safety project, which will include parking-protected bike lanes on both streets on the six-block stretch between Market and Folsom. Some 45 people showed up to learn about the designs and give feedback.
September 23, 2016
Eyes on the Street: The Kinda Raised Crosswalk at Duboce Park
Streetsblog was thrilled to hear about the quiet unveiling of San Francisco's first raised crosswalk on a through city street, at Steiner and Hermann, across from Duboce Park.
September 21, 2016
Guest Editorial: Safety Must Come First on Taraval
Every day 29,000 Muni riders and countless walkers travel on Taraval Street, one of the city’s 12 percent of streets responsible for over 70 percent of traffic deaths and life-changing injuries. On average, every five and-a-half weeks someone is hit while walking on Taraval.
September 20, 2016
Vision Zero Committee Hears Radio Spot and Other Efforts to Curtail Speeding
Note the 'call to action' at the end of this post.
September 19, 2016
Push Continues in City Hall for Safer Bike Infrastructure
Note the 'call to action' at the end of this post.
September 9, 2016
SoMa to Get SF’s First Protected Intersection…in One Direction at Least
SFMTA announced late last week that San Francisco will soon break ground on the first protected intersection in San Francisco. From the agency's web article:
August 29, 2016