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Crash at Polk and Hayes Kills One Pedestrian, Severely Injures Another
Enforcement is part of the solution. But streets also need designs that use physics to stop reckless drivers before they kill
May 19, 2021
Podcast: Saving COVID’s Car-Free Streets
If there's been a silver lining to the COVID crisis, it's certainly that for the first time some space between buildings has been wrestled away from the all-but exclusive use of motorists. The Cool Solution podcast did a great piece about a few of the scrappy activists
May 14, 2021
Supervisor’s Comparison of Car-Free JFK to Jim Crow is “Offensive”
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
May 12, 2021
Op-ed: OakDOT Must Redesign Frontage Road For Safety
Residents think Oakland has enough freeways. Frontage Road should become a neighborhood street.
May 7, 2021
Advocates Demand City Fix South Van Ness
One of the city's most overbuilt, dangerous streets needs fixed now, say advocates
May 4, 2021
Mr. Barricade to Cities: Safety Ain’t About Money
If you think it takes piles of loot to make safe streets, you're doing it wrong
April 30, 2021
Advocates Battle Sharks Over Parking, Safe Streets
The owners of the San Jose Sharks hockey team are officially opposing a proposed development in an around San Jose's Diridon station.
April 27, 2021
Alameda Approves Central Avenue Project
City passes plan a decade in the making that includes protected bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, and roundabouts
April 21, 2021
Cal Amtrak Wants Safer Ballpark Plan
Head of the agency that runs passenger trains between San Jose and Sacramento wants more done to address rail safety issues at proposed Howard Terminal ballpark
April 20, 2021
Is Gordon Mar Spiking Sunset’s Slow Streets?
Supervisor Gordon Mar asks for the removal of slow streets near schools. Other Sunset slow streets are already disappearing. SFMTA denies it's happening.
April 12, 2021
