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How Can SF Make Streets Safer If We Don’t Know How Dangerous They Are?
Tracking, analyzing, and reporting pedestrian fatalities should be a basic function of the San Francisco Police Department. But the fact is that SF lacks public access to clear and accurate data about street safety. The information gap is deeply troubling, and city agencies must act quickly to rectify it.
June 13, 2012
SFMTA Sets 25 MPH Limits on Four SoMa Streets. Time for Speed Cams?
Speed limits have been lowered from 30 MPH to 25 MPH on Howard, Folsom, Harrison, and Bryant Streets in the South of Market area, the SFMTA announced yesterday.
June 8, 2012
Transbay Transit Center to Fill Downtown With People, Not Cars
The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco's downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa. Scheduled to open in 2017, it will link 11 transit systems and eventually CA High-Speed Rail. Some have called it the "Grand Central of the West."
June 1, 2012
SFMTA Installs Second Green Wave for Bikes on 14th Street
The SFMTA recently implemented its second green wave on 14th Street, re-timing traffic signals for more bicycle-friendly speeds from Dolores to Folsom.
May 25, 2012
Can BART’s Bike Plan Double Bike-to-Train Ridership in Ten Years?
BART is updating its bicycle plan [PDF] and setting a new goal to double the rate of passengers who bike within ten years, largely by expanding secure parking and possibly relaxing its restrictions on bike access to trains and stations. The agency is asking the public to submit comments on the draft plan until May 27.
May 23, 2012
Overwhelming Support for Fell and Oak Bikeways at SFMTA Hearing
Nearly 100 attendees packed a City Hall room this morning for a hearing on the Fell and Oak bikeways, where supporters of the project overwhelmingly outnumbered detractors.
May 18, 2012
New “Better Streets” Website Helps Residents Untangle City Bureaucracy
The San Francisco Better Streets Program launched a new website this week to provide a central source of information to help residents procure street improvements like traffic-calming measures, parklets, bike corrals, plantings, art installations, sidewalk fixtures, and permits for car-free events in their neighborhood.
May 16, 2012
SFMTA Drafting Design Standards to Streamline Innovative Bike Treatments
The SFMTA is developing a new engineering guide for bike infrastructure that should help bring street designs like protected bike lanes to more San Francisco streets. Known as the Innovative Bicycle Treatment Toolbox, the guide promises to accelerate the city's adoption of high-quality bikeway design treatments.
May 11, 2012
Bike to Work Day Shifts Into High Gear Tomorrow
San Francisco's streets are expected to fill with bike commuters tomorrow for the city's 18th Bike to Work Day.
May 9, 2012
Protected Bike Lanes, Ped Safety Top Priorities for Second Street Neighbors
Safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossings should be top priorities in the redesign of Second Street. That was the major sentiment at a community meeting on Wednesday, where city staffers rebooting the faltered Second Street Improvement Project asked attendees how they would re-envision the corridor.
May 4, 2012