Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Issues, Campaigns and Miscellany

If motorists want to access GGP's museums, they can use MLK Drive, named after the man on the left in this photo from 1955 of the Montgomery bus boycott. Or, of course, they can leave the car at home and take the 44 O'Shaugnessy, which runs directly between the museums and Walton's district. Photo: King Institute/Stanford

Supervisor’s Comparison of Car-Free JFK to Jim Crow is “Offensive”

By Roger Rudick | May 12, 2021 | No Comments

Trying to stop motorists from using a park as a freeway isn't comparable to segregation. Supervisor Shamann Walton is either ignorant or intentionally misleading on an indefensible position

Greg Riessen proudly standing on one of the bioswell builbouts he helped plan on Folsom. Photos: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Celebrating Folsom in Rincon Hill

By Roger Rudick | May 11, 2021 | No Comments

An unofficial Streetsblog ribbon-cutting on Folsom in Rincon Hill

Trains will return this weekend to the subway tunnel. Image: Wikimedia

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Tracking Transit’s Return

By Roger Rudick | May 10, 2021 | No Comments

A round up of the three biggest transit agencies and the inevitable return to pre-pandemic service levels

The speed limit is 35, but this is a more typical speed on this badly engineered road. Image: Paul Sousa

Op-ed: OakDOT Must Redesign Frontage Road For Safety

By Paul H. Sousa | May 7, 2021 | No Comments

Residents think Oakland has enough freeways. Frontage Road should become a neighborhood street.

A TGV in France, similar to what will eventually run in California. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Bullet Train Haters Self-Satirize

By Roger Rudick | May 6, 2021 | No Comments

Opponents partake in some high-speed absurdities

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Advocates Demand City Fix South Van Ness

By Roger Rudick | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

One of the city's most overbuilt, dangerous streets needs fixed now, say advocates

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