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SFMTA Cuts Bike Lane from Planned Sixth Street Safety Improvements
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.
June 21, 2018
Stiffer Fines for Illegally Parking a 20-pound Scooter than a 20,000-pound Truck?
SFMTA's new fine structure has some safe-streets advocates fuming.
June 20, 2018
Eyes on the Street: The McAllister Makeover
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.
June 19, 2018
San Francisco’s Hidden Holocaust Memorial
It's a beautiful and powerful statement about tolerance--that's very hard to access
June 15, 2018
Advocates React to London Breed’s Election
It was a tough race, but yesterday candidate Mark Leno finally conceded to London Breed.
June 14, 2018
Scooters Temporarily Removed From SF as New Regs Take Effect
Today is the first day of San Francisco's scooter ban.
June 4, 2018
SPUR Talk: The Importance of Good Data in Achieving Vision Zero
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."
May 24, 2018
Walk SF Campaigns for San Francisco’s First Raised Intersection
Walk San Francisco is asking people to sign a petition to urge the city to install a raised intersection at Page Street and Buchanan.
May 22, 2018
Calling Attention to a Dangerous Crossing in Berkeley
Caltrans plans to add a pedestrian beacon at a busy crossing, but will it make anything safer for bicyclists?
May 8, 2018
SF Wanted $900 to Use a Bit of Street for a Pop-Up Party
This past weekend marked the fourth 'Sunday Streets' event of the year--this time in the Tenderloin. But there was another, lesser-known neighborhood-building street event this weekend in San Francisco: Saturday's Spear Street Pop-Up Party. It took place at the cul-de-sac where Spear dead-ends just before the Embarcadero.
May 7, 2018
