Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFDPH

Commentary: Despite Mandate to Improve Pedestrian Safety, SF Doesn’t Act

By Matthew Roth | Nov 19, 2010 | 57 Comments

I often write stories for Streetsblog as objectively as I can, but after talking with the SFMTA about their pedestrian safety report, I got a little too upset to write dispassionately. Therefore, I’ll call this a “commentary” and you can take it for what it’s worth. If the footage of 65-year-old Nu Ha Dam getting […]

Promoting Health and Physical Activity Among Children on Walk to School Day

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2010 | 4 Comments

With childhood obesity a growing national epidemic, it is surprising that more parents don’t walk to school with their kids or organize amongst neighbors to encourage physical activity as part of the daily routine. Though San Francisco has extensive public transit and is quite walkable, the current school assignment policy results in longer school commutes, […]

CA Pedestrian Groups Gather For Conference on Improving Data and Advocacy

By Matthew Roth | Oct 1, 2010 | No Comments

Pedestrian advocates, public health professionals and transportation planners and engineers will gather in Berkeley from Sunday through Tuesday to discuss how to improve pedestrian trip and injury data collection, both to inform pedestrian safety campaigns and influence the targets for walkable communities under California’s SB 375. The conference, Pedestrians Count!, is being organized by California […]

Say What?

By Chris Carlsson | May 24, 2010 | 26 Comments

The vibrations and rumble of cable cars used to occur on many of San Francisco’s streets. We are often attracted to city life for the energy, the boisterousness, the noise. I am a city guy having lived all my life in cities (born in Brooklyn, Chicago until age 10, Oakland until 17, and San Francisco […]

How Quickly Will Caltrans Embrace Complete Streets Guidelines?

By Matthew Roth | Mar 30, 2010 | 6 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk Though it may seem esoteric, one of the biggest impediments to designing streets for people is the over-reliance on design standards that have long privileged movement of vehicles over any other consideration on the streets. That’s why advocates cheered when U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood published a policy paper recently that, at […]

SFPD and Health Department Announce Pedestrian Safety Campaign

By Matthew Roth | Oct 22, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: Thomas Hawk The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and the Department of Public Health (DPH) recently announced a pedestrian safety program funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS, tag: "Toward Zero Deaths, Every 1 Counts"), a joint initiative that aims to increase enforcement of dangerous and illegal driver behavior, […]