Aaron Bialick
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
Recent Posts
Sup. Christensen: Make the Stockton Tunnel Better for Walking and Biking
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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,” […]
22-Day Muni-Riding Challenge, Day 10: Checking the Score at City Hall
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We’re nearly halfway into the 22-day Muni riding challenge. How seriously are SF’s elected officials taking their commitment to get familiar with the everyday experience of riding Muni? Eight supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee signed up for the challenge by the time SFTRU kicked it off on June 1. Based on the tally of onboard tweets reported on the SF […]
Palo Alto Forum: Parking Management for Smart Growth
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From Palo Alto Forward: We seem to want a lot of it, but never seem to get enough of it – What is it? PARKING! Let’s find a better way to manage our parking issues. How can we make it more convenient to get to downtown Palo Alto (and Mountain View, Menlo Park, Mountain View, […]
SFPD Driver Strikes and Kills Cyclist “DJ” Pinkerton, 23, on Dangerous Road
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Donald “D.J.” Pinkerton, 23, was killed on his bike in a crash with an SFPD driver on Friday night at a dangerous intersection at the edge of McLaren Park which is set to get traffic calming improvements. The SFPD has told reporters that officers are still investigating the crash, which occurred at about 9 p.m. at Sunnydale […]
Safer Market Street Vote at SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting
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Agenda See past Streetsblog coverage From SFMTA: The City is one step closer to Vision Zero pending SFMTA Board Approval of the Safer Market Street project. Market Street is the City’s premier civic and commercial corridor hosting hundreds of thousands of people arriving by means of transit, walking, biking or driving. More bikes travel down […]
Supe Kim, SFMTA Get Tips From Copenhagen on Creating a Bikeable City
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Supervisor Jane Kim and SFMTA officials took a trip last month to learn about best practices from two leading bike-friendly cities: Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. “I’d assumed that [Copenhagen] always had a bike culture,” Kim told Streetsblog. “I was surprised to learn that they also had a cars-first culture through the 60s and 90s. They’ve actually […]
Tell Bay Area Bike Share Where You Want Stations in the Tenfold Expansion
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With a tenfold expansion secured last week, Bay Area Bike Share launched an interactive online map where you can weigh in on where the next wave of stations should go in SF, the East Bay, and San Jose. The map received 1,500 spot suggestions within the first 12 hours of its launch, said Dani Simons, spokesperson for Motivate, the bike-share […]
Sunday Streets: Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway
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From Sunday Streets: Sunday Streets are events that encourage recreation, community activities and fun in San Francisco. Sunday Streets closes stretches of city streets to automobile traffic, and opens them to people for several hours on a various Sundays throughout the year, so participants can enjoy a large, temporary, public space where they can bike, […]
Thinkwalks Transportation History Ride
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From Thinkwalks: Golden Gate park is a canvass on which the city’s ambitions were sketched. San Francisco was the first major city on the coast. We’ll discover many firsts in the Park because it was where ideas were tested. The city’s history exactly matches the 160 years of transportation revolutions. We’ll see where a major […]
SFBC Survey Ride: Andy’s Audits S1
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From SFBC: How’s the SF Bike Network doing, as a real, living thing? Andy’s Audits are a series of “whole trip” evaluations of actual San Francisco bicycle trips, from Point A to Point B, connecting some real world dots by bicycle and measuring where a bit more bike love could make the network light up […]
SPUR Forum: Parking Management for Smart Growth
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From SPUR: Image courtesy of Flickr user Alden Jewell. The space devoted to parking in urban and suburban areas is highly contested, with good reason: in the 300 square feet required for a parking space, you could hold 10 bicycles or even a studio apartment. The new book, Parking Management for Smart Growth, explores how […]
TSP Rebooted: Bureaucratic Revamp Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets
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San Francisco agencies have re-introduced the Transportation Sustainability Program, a bureaucratic overhaul that could dramatically expedite improvements for walking, biking, and transit, while discouraging car parking in new developments. In developing the program, SF planners are also nearing completion of the nation’s first major study showing that dedicated car parking encourages driving. The TSP is three-pronged: It would overhaul SF’s development fee […]