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Will Deadly Sixth Street Finally Get the Pedestrian Safety Fixes It Needs?
The deadly stretch of Sixth Street between Market and Howard Streets in the South of Market District may get some long-overdue pedestrian safety fixes. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency kicked off the first of several community planning meetings on Tuesday for a project that could add pedestrian bulb-outs, marked crosswalks, and other measures that could make for a more livable street.
February 22, 2013
Eileen Barrett, 72, Killed in Crosswalk by Muni Driver on Lake Merced Blvd
A Muni bus driver ran over and killed Eileen Barrett, a 72-year-old woman from Daly City, in a crosswalk on Lake Merced Boulevard at John Muir Drive this Saturday.
February 19, 2013
SFMTA: Work on Oak Street Protected Bike Lane to Begin This Month
Since the striping work on the Fell Street protected bike lane was finished last November, little progress has been seen on the Fell and Oak safety upgrades. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency, which has promised completion of the project by this spring or summer, says it will begin work on the Oak bike lane this month, though there could be delays due to ongoing construction work on a paint store.
February 14, 2013
SF’s Pedestrian Strategy: A Smart But Unfunded Vision for Safer Streets
Two years after the Pedestrian Safety Task Force formed to devise a plan to meet the ambitious targets for reducing injuries set by former Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency has released its Draft Pedestrian Strategy [PDF]. The document serves as a rough guide for how the city can re-engineer streets and target traffic enforcement to make walking safer in the coming years.
January 31, 2013
SFMTA Lays Out Draft Targets to Improve Walking and Biking
This morning the SF Municipal Transportation Agency is presenting its strategic plans to reduce pedestrian injuries and increase bike ridership over the next five years at a staff workshop with the agency's board of directors.
January 29, 2013
Planning Dept. Presents Draft Designs for a Ped-Friendly Castro Street
The city's effort to make Castro Street more welcoming for pedestrians took a step forward yesterday, when the SF Planning Department presented preliminary design concepts at a packed community meeting.
January 24, 2013
To Boost Shopping in Chinatown, SF Brings Back Ban on Car Parking
In San Francisco's Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business.
January 24, 2013
Great Highway Re-Paving to Come With Minor Bike-Ped Upgrades
The Great Highway, the motorway that divides Ocean Beach from the Outer Sunset and Richmond, is set to get some bike lane and pedestrian improvements north of Lincoln Way as part of a nine-month re-paving project started this week by the Department of Public Works.
January 17, 2013
Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?
Despite living in one of the city's densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco's most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s.
January 9, 2013
Deadly Holiday Season: Two Peds, One Passenger Killed In Two Weeks
Two pedestrians and one vehicle passenger lost their lives in separate car crashes in the last two weeks, marking the last of 19 pedestrian deaths in 2012, and the first two traffic fatalities of 2013.
January 2, 2013