Pedestrian Safety

Streetsblog tipster and advocate Brian Coyne brought this to our attention: "SFMTA's Sixth Street Safety Project, which Streetsblog has covered several times over the last few years, has now had the bike lane component removed." The plan, as shown on the agency's project page, is now to remove the bike facility and add an additional northbound car lane to the design.

SFMTA's new fine structure has some safe-streets advocates fuming.

This spring, as part of the Muni Forward project, the city installed two new traffic circles and two new signals on McAllister Street to improve the performance of the 5 Fulton bus.

It's a beautiful and powerful statement about tolerance--that's very hard to access

It was a tough race, but yesterday candidate Mark Leno finally conceded to London Breed.

Today is the first day of San Francisco's scooter ban.

Before cities can make streets safer, they need good data on collisions--and that data has to be collected well, processed well, and easily accessible to transportation planners, explained Timothy Black with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. But, until recently, the department lacked those capabilities, "...despite being a department full of engineers, we were still looking at a mishmash of pdf docs and spreadsheets."

Walk San Francisco is asking people to sign a petition to urge the city to install a raised intersection at Page Street and Buchanan.

Caltrans plans to add a pedestrian beacon at a busy crossing, but will it make anything safer for bicyclists?