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Detailed Polk Street Designs: Plans for Safe Bicycling Still “Lackluster”
The SFMTA and the Planning Department presented detailed plans for Polk Street at the project's final open house meeting yesterday. The new aspects include specific locations of bulb-outs, dedicated bicycle signals, left turn prohibitions, loading zones, and new trees and landscaping. Plans to improve bicycle infrastructure are still composed of a mix of protected, buffered, conventional, and part-time bike lanes, depending on the stretch and side of the street.
March 27, 2014
Tonight: Final Open House on a Safer Polk Street
Tonight is the SFMTA and Planning Department's final open house on the Polk Street redesign, the last chance to weigh in on the agency's preferred design before it goes to the SFMTA Board of Directors for approval. As you can see from the above flyer, the parking-obsessed "Save Polk Street" group is still fighting against safety measures in order to hang on to the small amount of car storage the SFMTA proposes to remove.
March 26, 2014
Contrary to Ed Lee, Records Show No Popular Revolt Against Sunday Meters
Contrary to Mayor Ed Lee's assertions that the public has revolted against Sunday parking meters, records indicate that hardly anyone has complained to City Hall about the policy via email or 311 calls.
March 20, 2014
Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley
“Parking is the single biggest land use in any city,” said UCLA Professor Donald Shoup to a packed house in Berkeley last night, “and it's almost completely unmanaged.” At the same time, “zoning requires a space for every car but ignores the homeless. In our cities, free parking is more important than affordable housing.”
March 20, 2014
Avalos’ Eyes on the Street: SFPD Blocks Crosswalk During Traffic Stop
Supervisor John Avalos posted the above photo on Facebook with the following explanation:
March 10, 2014
Appeals Board Reverses Vote to Downsize Parking-Free 1050 Valencia
The San Francsco Board of Appeals voted yesterday to reverse its decision to downsize the long-embattled condo project at 1050 Valencia Street in the Mission. The project includes no car parking and one bike parking space for each unit.
February 27, 2014
The More Space SF Uses to Store Cars, the Less We’ll Have to House People
What if San Francisco stopped adding car parking? The idea might sound a little odd to the average person, but when you look at where the city is heading, the really crazy scenario would be to keep on cramming more cars into our neighborhoods. Under current policies, SF is poised to build 92,000 spots for personal car storage by 2040, consuming an ungodly amount of space in our compact, 7-mile-by-7-mile city. At what point does it stop?
February 14, 2014
Survey Shows Polk Neighbors Want Safer Streets First, Not Parking
Updated 6:09 p.m. with comment from MPNA.
January 28, 2014
Mayor Lee’s Spineless Sunday Meter Reversal: Bad for Business, Bad for SF
After a years-long push to implement a smart parking policy in San Francisco, leave it to Mayor Ed Lee to take us back to 1947.
January 16, 2014
DPW Tallies the Vote Before Committing to More Ped Space on Potrero
The Department of Public Works has selected a design option for the two most heavily-contested blocks of Potrero Avenue following a vote by attendees of two public meetings. Of the three choices presented for the section between 22nd and 24th Streets in front of SF General Hospital, the most popular was Option 1, which will allocate street space to wider sidewalks and a center median with plantings -- not a bike lane buffer or car parking, as in the two other options, according to DPW.
January 7, 2014