Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Greenways

Creating a Safer “Green Gateway” at Valencia and Mission Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 10, 2013 | 8 Comments

A chunk of roadway at Valencia and Mission Streets would be reclaimed to create a plaza designed to make the corner more pedestrian-friendly and absorb stormwater under a project led by the SF Public Utilities Commission. The Valencia and Mission Green Gateway Project would widen sidewalks and add greenery and permeable pavement treatments along the […]

City Sets Out to Create Safer, Greener Streets on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2013 | 42 Comments

The Wiggle could be transformed into a greener, more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly route in the coming years thanks to a new planning effort launched by the SFMTA and the SF Public Utilities Commission. At an open house community meeting yesterday, planners shopped potential treatments like traffic diverters, traffic circles, bulb-outs, and raised crosswalks that could […]

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San Franciscans Want to Link Parks With Safer Intersections, Living Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 3, 2013 | 4 Comments

Bringing safe bike infrastructure and shared, pedestrian-priority streets to San Francisco are just a couple of popular ideas among users on ImproveSF.com, a city-sponsored website which features a platform for residents to provide input on the Planning Department’s “Green Connections” project. Planners are fielding ideas from the Green Connections section of the website to help shape […]

Envisioning the Wiggle as a People-Centered Greenway

By Aaron Bialick | May 30, 2012 | 47 Comments

The SF Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) has posted new visuals on its website depicting how streets on the Wiggle could be transformed into greener, traffic-calmed streets oriented toward safe walking and bicycling. The Wiggle, the flattest route connecting the east and west parts of the city, is already a magnet for bike traffic. However, as the SFBC notes, new riders can […]

Tomorrow: Help Envision Better Streets Connecting to Heron’s Head Park

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 9, 2012 | 3 Comments

Tomorrow the SF Planning Department is putting on the first in a series of walks as part of its new Green Connections project, an effort to improve access to parks making better use of city streets. The intent of the program, according to the department’s website, is to create “a citywide network of green streets that can […]

The Political and Economic Implications of Bicycling Tourists

By Chris Carlsson | May 2, 2011 | 16 Comments

I’ve been bicycling in San Francisco since the late 1970s so I vividly remember when almost all bicyclists could recognize each other on the streets of the city. There really weren’t that many of us even as recently as the beginning of the 1990s, just two decades ago. We’ve come a long way, and one […]

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