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
SPUR Forum: Building the Market and Octavia Plan
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From SPUR: Image courtesy of Flickr user Steve Boland Market and Octavia, the first Better Neighborhoods Plan, was adopted in 2007. The plan is now becoming reality, with several new projects being built or recently finished. Come hear from the architects of the area’s new housing developments as they share their vision for the future of the neighborhood. Co-presented by […]
SF Urban Film Fest
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From SFUrbanFilmFest.com: Welcome to the SF Urban Film Fest – a film festival focused on URBAN PLANNING, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, and FILM. The goals of the SF Urban Film Fest are to educate the general public on urban planning approaches to urban design problems and questions of social equity and to inspire civic engagement through the most dynamic of visual media, […]
TransForm LIVE Awards + Benefit
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From TransForm: We are thrilled to announce the recipients of TransForm’s LIVE Awards taking place on Thursday, October 16, 2014. We will honor California Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Executive Director of Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Corinne Winter during this special evening. Senator Steinberg has arguably done more than any legislator in California’s […]
New Muni-Only Lanes Streamline Buses on Haight, Lincoln at 19th Avenue
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Muni riders have just gotten some sweet new transit-only lanes to speed up their commutes. Red paint is on the ground for two new bus lanes: One at Lincoln Way and 19th Avenue, and another on the east end of Haight Street. A new left-turn lane, exclusively for Muni buses, went into operation this week […]
The (Not-So) Odd Reasons Why SFPD Parks Cars All Around Park Station
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A few years ago, SFPD’s Park Station in Golden Gate Park started storing police trucks and vans on a short section of pathway adjacent to the station’s fence. I first noticed this while biking on Kezar Drive several years ago, and since then I’ve never seen the path without a police vehicle and/or barricade in the […]
Watch BART Board Candidates Nick Josefowitz and James Fang Debate
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The race is on for the BART Board of Directors seat representing District 8, which wraps around northern, western, and southern San Francisco. Twenty-four year incumbent James Fang faces a challenge in the November election from Nick Josefowitz, and the two debated for the first time at last week’s meeting of the Sunset Heights Association […]
Supes Stand Up to Transbay Developers, Approve Original Rail Funding Deal
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The Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously approved the original agreement to fund Transbay District transportation upgrades, like the downtown rail extension to the Transbay Transit Center, through development charges. Although supervisors had announced a compromise agreement two weeks ago, some developers apparently backed out of it. City Hall officials decided to move forward with the original agreement, […]
Leave it to KTVU to Sensationalize One Car-Share Parking Space
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KTVU reporter David Stevenson is at it again, with a new report about reserving one on-street parking spot for car-share vehicles. With Stevenson’s history of muckraking about lawfully helmet-less bicyclists, and a handful of re-purposed parking spaces, this sort of scandalous scoop is right up his alley. Stevenson glosses over the fact that car-share vehicles open up […]
It’s Not the Bulb-Outs: Poor Management Blamed for Slower SFFD Response
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The SF Fire Department’s top brass, who have recently blamed safer street designs for slowing emergency response times, are coming under fire as evidence mounts that SFFD’s own management problems may be to blame. The department lacks sufficient medical staff, equipment, and emergency vehicles, according to a report released in June, and officials apparently neglected […]
SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento
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SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]
Auto-Clogged Powell Street Could Be a Car-Free Haven
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It’s a wonder that anyone drives a car on Powell Street in Union Square. Yet along the busiest pedestrian thoroughfare this side of the United States, you’ll typically see the perplexing scene of drivers, sitting in a line heading down the hill, all seemingly going nowhere in particular and certainly not very quickly. These private autos […]
Ocean Avenue Corridor Design Project Workshop #4
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From SF Planning: Since March 2014, the City of San Francisco has been working with the community to develop a streetscape design for Ocean Avenue between Manor Drive and San Jose Avenue. On July 9, 2014 the final conceptual design was presented for Ocean Avenue between Manor Drive and Phelan Avenue. On October 8, 2014, the […]