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SFMTA Abandons Parking Meter Plans in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill
The SFMTA has given up on its neighborhood-scale plans to install parking meters in the Dogpatch and Portrero Hill, while parking meter approvals in the northeast Mission move forward at a snail's pace. After two years of tangling with the city, the defenders of dysfunctional free parking have effectively caused a huge setback for progressive transportation policy -- meaning more traffic and slower transit in the future. Hooray for San Francisco.
December 20, 2013
Artist Kurt Dalen, 30, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Valencia Near Duboce
Kurt Dalen, a 30-year-old Mission District artist, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Valencia Street south of Duboce Avenue at about 2:45 a.m. last Thursday.
December 9, 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
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
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
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes, Road Diet on Folsom in the Mission
The Mission's stretch of Folsom Street, between 19th and 24th Streets, just got safer with bike lanes and a road diet striped along with a road-repaving.
October 15, 2013
Four Girls Injured After Truck Driver Hits Pole at 24th and South Van Ness
Four girls between the ages of 9 and 14 were injured at South Van Ness Avenue and 24th Street in the Mission yesterday after the driver of a semi truck knocked down a traffic light pole, which fell onto the victims, according to police.
August 6, 2013