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Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?
Despite living in one of the city's densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco's most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s.
January 9, 2013
SFMTA Sets Out to Create a Safer, More Convivial Polk Street
An effort to revamp conditions on Polk Street for walking, socializing, bicycling, and transit is underway by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, and residents say they're eager to see calmer motor traffic, wider sidewalks, better bike lanes and more public space along the corridor.
September 28, 2012
Taxi Driver Who Killed Man in Tenderloin Yet to Be Cited or Charged
Police are still looking into whether charges could be filed against the taxi driver who allegedly ran a red light at Eddy and Larkin Streets Saturday, causing a car crash that killed pedestrian Edmund Capalla, the SF Examiner reports. The driver has reportedly yet to be arrested or cited.
August 14, 2012
Man Killed By Alleged Red Light-Running Taxi Driver at Eddy and Larkin
Updated 6:57 p.m.
August 13, 2012
Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Restores Two-Way Traffic on Ellis
The SFMTA last week restored two-way traffic on four blocks of Ellis Street, from Polk to Jones Streets. It's the final phase of a project that also converted two blocks of the adjacent Eddy Street last month, bringing humane traffic speeds to what used to be highway-like, one-way arterial streets.
May 22, 2012
SFMTA Brings Humane, Two-Way Traffic Back to Ellis and Eddy
The SFMTA began converting several blocks of Ellis and Eddy to two-way streets in the Tenderloin last week. The conversion is expected to calm motor traffic on the former multi-lane, one-way arterial streets designed to rush car traffic through one of the city's densest neighborhoods.
April 24, 2012
After Outcry, SFPD to Cite Driver Who Ran Over Man in Tenderloin
It took a show of public outrage, but the SFPD has reversed course and decided to issue a traffic citation to the paratransit van driver who was videotaped running over a man who had the right of way at Leavenworth and Eddy Streets last week. The driver will be cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian; no criminal charges will be filed as of yet.
February 24, 2012
SFPD Declares Open Season on Pedestrians With the Right of Way
Despite clear video footage showing a shuttle bus driver running over a man in a crosswalk at Eddy and Leavenworth Streets yesterday, pinning him for 20 minutes, San Francisco police saw no reason to even issue a citation.
February 16, 2012
The Tenderloin Finally Gets a Taste of Car-Free Sunday Streets
Mary San George was sitting outside her neighborhood flower store yesterday, facing the historic residential high-rise building on O'Farrell Street where she has lived for 27 years, and marveling at something she very rarely gets to experience in her Tenderloin neighborhood: a street full of people instead of cars.
August 15, 2011
SFMTA Installs Bike and Ped Lights on the Broadway Tunnel and Tenderloin
The SFMTA installed two new signal lights this week that the agency hopes will lead to increased safety for people walking and biking in the Broadway Tunnel and a Tenderloin intersection.
June 3, 2011