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This Week: Making Bicycling Safer in South/Southeast SF
The SF Bicycle Coalition continues its "Love Your Lanes" bike rides in Districts 10 and 11 this weekend to generate ideas for improving bicycling conditions in the south and southeastern neighborhoods. The District 10 ride will look at ways to create better connections in Bayview and improve connections to the 22nd Street Caltrain station, while the District 11 ride will explore neighborhoods like Ingleside and the Excelsior and the area around Balboa Park BART.
February 25, 2013
This Week: Is Bay Area Transit Ready for Climate Change?
A SPUR forum on Wednesday will consider how the Bay Area can strengthen its transportation system in the face of storms and rising sea levels brought on by climate change in the coming decades. New York City was forced to confront the reality of climate change last fall when Hurricane Sandy, given added force by warmer ocean … Continued
February 19, 2013
This Week: SFMTA’s Progress on Implementing the Muni TEP
SFMTA planners will present an update on implementation of the Muni Transit Effectiveness Project at a lunchtime forum hosted by SPUR tomorrow. The agency will also hold a community meeting tonight on its plan for a Central Subway turnaround loop at Mission Bay, and the SF Bicycle Coalition is putting on a tune-up workshop this Sunday to help make bikes available to the Spanish-speaking community.
February 11, 2013
This Week: Green Lane Project Comes to SF
It's a good week to renew your love with your bicycle. Join the SF Bicycle Coalition for a chance to learn about the Green Lane Project's efforts to bring protected bike lanes to cities including SF; try out the matchmaking at the “Love on Wheels" dating game; and take a field survey of the Sunset from a two-wheeled perspective.
February 4, 2013
This Week: How SF Plans to Boost Walking, Biking, and Transit
Planners at the SF Municipal Transportation Agency are set to present the agency's five-year Strategic Plan tomorrow, laying out a framework to improve walking, biking, and transit in the city -- stay tuned for coverage.
January 28, 2013
This Week: Help Design a Ped-Friendly Street and a New Plaza
This Wednesday, the Planning Department will hold simultaneous community meetings about making a more pedestrian-friendly Castro Street and the creation of a new Pavement to Parks plaza at the Persia Triangle in the Excelsior District. Those interested in more bike-friendly streets in the Glen Park, Noe Valley, and Castro neighborhoods can also join the SF Bicycle Coalition for a tour of District 8 this Saturday.
January 22, 2013
This Week: Support Parking Reform in the NE Mission
The SFMTA's parking management efforts in the northeast Mission continue on Saturday with a drop-in style public meeting about developing a saner parking system in a neighborhood where drivers circle endlessly to find spots. Plenty of opponents are expected to try to shut the process down, so parking reform supporters will need to make sure they're heard too.
January 14, 2013
This Week: Take a Bike Tour of the Richmond’s Changing Streets
This week, SPUR hosts a forum with updates on high-speed rail, the SFMTA considers bike lanes on part of the Great Highway, East Bay Bike Party hosts a superhero ride, and the SF Bicycle Coalition leads an exploration of the Richmond District and the upper Presidio.
January 7, 2013
This Week: Help Design a Better Castro Street
In a light, pre-holiday week on the Streetsblog calendar, the SF Planning Department wants your ideas for improving Castro Street, and the San Jose Bike Party heads out on a holiday ride.
December 17, 2012
This Week: Supes Hear Fell and Oak Appeal
This week, an appeal against pedestrian and bikeway upgrades on Fell and Oak Streets goes before the Board of Supervisors, the SFBC and the Planning Department talk green streets, and Oakland hosts a community meeting on the Lake Merritt Station Area Plan.
December 10, 2012