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For Cheng Jin Lai, Bicycling Was a Necessary Means to an Active Life
Safe streets advocates, family, and friends of Cheng Jin Lai gathered yesterday for a memorial service of the 78-year-old man who was killed by a Muni driver on October 18 while making a trip on his bicycle at the crash-prone intersection of Bryant, Division, and 11th Streets.
November 15, 2013
Potrero Ave. Safety Redesign Limps Toward the Finish Line
Updated 11/14, 2:34 p.m. with response from Supervisor David Campos below.
November 13, 2013
SF’s First Painted Sidewalk Extensions Come to Sixth Street
A deadly stretch of Sixth Street received the city's first painted sidewalk extensions last week, created using low-cost, temporary materials to help make pedestrians more visible. The SFMTA implemented the pilot project between Market and Harrison Streets -- four blocks dense with residential hotels and shops -- to help curb injuries while the agency develops plans for a road diet.
November 12, 2013
Tonight: Balance Out Pro-Parking Extremism and Support a Safer Potrero
Tonight's open house meeting at SF General Hospital is your chance to show support for wider sidewalks and safer walking on Potrero Avenue. City planners, swayed by parking-obsessed extremists who are fighting wider sidewalks and disseminating misinformation about the project, will present new, heavily-watered down options that cut out sidewalk expansions to preserve car storage.
November 7, 2013
Supes Narrowly Reject EIR Appeal Against Car-Free Condos at 1050 Valencia
The proposed parking-free, 12-unit condo and retail development at 1050 Valencia Street narrowly cleared a hurdle Tuesday after a 6-5 vote by the Board of Supervisors, which rejected an appeal that contended the project should be required to have a full environmental impact report.
November 7, 2013
ENUF Delays Mission Parking Meters by Protesting the Wrong Ordinance
The Eastern Neighborhoods United Front, a group publicly represented by resident Mari Eliza, apparently turned out enough speakers and letters to postpone the approval of parking meters requested by merchants in the Mission at a hearing Friday.
November 6, 2013
Parking-Obsessed Extremists Threaten Plan for Safer Walking on Potrero
Update: A petition in support of wider sidewalks on Potrero has been created.
October 29, 2013
Inner Richmond’s First Sunday Streets Lively With Llamas and Humans
Despite the cloudy weather, Clement and Arguello Streets were bustling yesterday during the first Sunday Streets in the Inner Richmond -- the first Sunday Streets to come to the west side's neighborhood streets. (The other events have all been in Golden Gate Park and on the Great Highway.)
October 28, 2013
Han Cheng Li, 62, Killed by Driver at 16th and Potrero
Han Cheng Li, 62, was struck and killed by a driver on 16th Street at Potrero Avenue in the Mission at about 11:38 p.m. Saturday night, according to reports. Police have not released details about how the crash occurred or the name of the driver, but he has been identified as a 54-year-old man. Li is the 12th pedestrian to be killed in traffic in San Francisco this year.
October 28, 2013
Haight-Market Contra-Flow Bus Lane, Ped Upgrades Coming Next Summer
Construction of a red contra-flow bus-only lane and pedestrian safety upgrades at the hairy intersection of Market, Haight, and Gough Streets is on track to begin in January and be completed next summer, according to the SFMTA. The plan to create a more direct route for riders on Muni's 71-Haight/Noriega and 6-Parnassus lines, approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors two years ago, is expected to come along with sidewalk bulb-outs, pedestrian refuges, and new greenery.
October 25, 2013