Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Chinatown

Sup. Christensen: Make the Stockton Tunnel Better for Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2015 | 15 Comments

D3 Supervisor Julie Christensen wants to make the Stockton Tunnel more comfortable to walk and bike through. She announced today that she procured at least $100,000 in the city budget for a study of improvements in the next fiscal year. “Union Square is known all over the world. Chinatown is known all over the world,” […]

Chinatown Program to Turn Kids Into Safe Streets “Investigators”

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

A new after-school program will teach kids in Chinatown not just how to survive on car-centric streets — but also how to redesign them. Students in grades 3 to 5 will learn to act as “city street investigators” in a program launched by the Chinatown YMCA, the Chinatown Community Development Center, the SF Safe Routes to School […]

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Muni’s Sluggish 30-Stockton Finally Set to Get Greater Priority on the Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 25, 2014 | 17 Comments

Muni’s notoriously sluggish 30-Stockton line is finally set to get some upgrades that will give buses higher priority on streets through the dense neighborhoods of Union Square, Chinatown, North Beach, and near Fisherman’s Wharf. The plans, part of the SFMTA’s “Muni Forward” program, include transit-only lanes, bus bulb-outs and boarding islands, transit signal priority, and […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

To Boost Shopping in Chinatown, SF Brings Back Ban on Car Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2013 | 31 Comments

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business. Last year’s week-long trial removal of parking on five blocks of Stockton Street was so popular, in fact, that Mayor Ed Lee announced today that the program would return for another two-week run. The parking removal will make more room for vendors and the influx of […]

Sunday Streets Returns to Chinatown (But Not North Beach) This Weekend

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 24, 2012 | 4 Comments

Sunday Streets returns to Chinatown this weekend with a car-free route running along Grant Avenue and east toward the Embarcadero. It’ll be Sunday Streets’ second run in Chinatown, following a highly popular event last year, but the route will be different: Rather than running into North Beach all the way to Coit Tower, it’ll turn […]

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