Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Ed Reiskin

SFMTA Confident in Bike/Ped Funds, Says Changing Streets “the Hard Part”

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 5, 2014 | 7 Comments

SFMTA officials are growing more confident in obtaining the funding needed to implement the street safety infrastructure called for in the agency’s Bicycle Strategy and Pedestrian Strategy. But no matter how much funding the agency has, the SFMTA needs to address the lack of follow-through and political will to implement street redesigns, which often leaves projects […]

Why Isn’t SF Painting the Streets Red Like New York Is?

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 25, 2013 | 6 Comments

Just after our look at the faltering pace of plaza expansions under San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks program last week, we get another glimpse of New York City’s ongoing efforts to reclaim street space for people and improve safety using low-cost, temporary measures like posts and gravel epoxy. Apparently, these kind of space re-allocations happen […]

Small Business Commissioner: San Francisco Needs More Parking Garages

By Aaron Bialick | May 8, 2013 | 73 Comments

As has become painfully apparent on Polk Street, there is a deeply-held belief among certain merchants that car parking is indispensable to their business — even if studies indicate that very few of their customers drive, and that removing parking spaces to implement safety improvements could actually draw more potential customers. So it’s no surprise […]

Fearmongering Overwhelms Facts at Meeting About Livable Polk Street

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2013 | 103 Comments

A mob mentality ruled at a neighborhood meeting last night on safety improvements for Polk Street, where attendees booed any suggestion that removing car parking to make room for pedestrian and bicycle amenities might be worthwhile. Fact-based discussion was in short supply at the Middle Polk Neighborhood Association meeting. Instead, hyperbole and misinformation were the […]

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Muni to Start Rolling Out 62 New Low-Floor Hybrid Buses This Month

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 12, 2013 | 5 Comments

By the end of the month, Muni plans to roll out the first of 62 new low-floor hybrid buses, SF Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin said at a board of directors meeting last week. Muni will receive 13 of the 40-foot-long buses and put one of them into service by April, he said. Then, […]

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Bikeway on Mission Street Would Cost More Than One on Market

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 27, 2013 | 38 Comments

Constructing raised, protected bike lanes on downtown Mission Street would cost more than building them on Market, according to SF Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin. The Mission bikeway proposal, which recently surfaced as an option to be studied in the repeatedly-delayed Better Market Street project, would entail abandoning long-sought bike safety improvements on Market, which is […]

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