SFMTA

Bikes, transit, public spaces--city readies for giant Market Street makeover

Walk San Francisco, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and the Senior & Disability Work Group of the Vision Zero Coalition, are collaborating on bike lane designs and pedestrian safety measures.

SFMTA is in the process of adding the system's first elevator that will go directly from street to platform level, as part of a project to improve accessibility at Castro Station

It costs $2.25 to go one block on the Geary 38 bus, but someone driving a Tesla can use all of San Francisco’s streets for free. “It’s fundamentally inequitable” said Jeff Tumlin, Principal and Director of Strategy at NelsonNygaard Consulting, during a panel discussion at San Francisco’s Urban Land Institute. “We even manage traffic signals based on … Continued

There are five bike lane projects in various phases in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco (SoMa). Long-term improvements to Folsom and Howard are in the planning phase; there will be an open house in April to finalize those designs. Fifth Street will hold an open house to present initial designs. And Townsend and 7th Street are awaiting scheduling of public outreach meetings.

A switch fault Wednesday left thousands of Muni customers delayed and peeved.

City presents refined plans to modernize and transform San Francisco's main thoroughfare

Safe-streets advocates were outraged today to read that some San Francisco firefighters are still vying to veto Vision Zero projects. According to a story in yesterday's SF Examiner, Firefighters Local 798 sent a questionnaire to all the mayoral candidates which included:

"I lived in Noe Valley, in a rent-controlled unit, and a neighbor wanted to turn a one-story building into a two-unit building--and the neighborhood lost their mind," recalled Laura Clark, at Tuesday evening's panel discussion on the future of advocacy in the Bay Area.