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Eyes on the Street: Work Starts on Phase II of the 8th Street Protected Bike Lane
A city crew prepping for a bus-boarding island on 8th. All pics Streetsblog/Rudick unless indicated
April 20, 2018
Walk San Francisco Creates “Scooters Behaving Badly” Facebook Album
Walk San Francisco, in response to a number of complaints from its members about scooters on the sidewalks, is demanding that Bird, Lime, and Spin--purveyors of app-based electric scooter rentals--take action. Walk SF has also created a Facebook photo album for people to post images of Scooters creating a hazard.
April 12, 2018
Bike Safety Advocates Fume over City’s Scooter Priorities
Ubers in the bike lanes, sub-standard bike infra, hit-and-runs, broken pavement--but SFMTA cracks down on scooter rentals
April 3, 2018
Data Shows JUMP Bikes are Filling their Niche
Between Uber/Lyft and Conventional Bike-Share, there's JUMP
March 16, 2018
Better Market Street Open House
Bikes, transit, public spaces--city readies for giant Market Street makeover
March 12, 2018
Advocates Want City to Tweak Bus Boarding Island Design
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.
March 8, 2018
Castro Muni to get a New Lift
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
March 6, 2018
ULI Talk: The Bay Area’s Transportation Future
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
February 28, 2018
Bike Coalition Continues Push for a Safer SoMa
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.
February 21, 2018
Valentine’s Muni Malfunction Underscores Lack of Interagency Cooperation
A switch fault Wednesday left thousands of Muni customers delayed and peeved.
February 15, 2018