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
VTA: No, We Won’t Cut Train Service to Move More Cars at Levi’s Stadium
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Santa Clara County’s Valley Transportation Authority says it does not plan to reduce light-rail service in order to move more cars at Levi’s Stadium during the post-game traffic crunch. “Transit is not the problem; transit is a solution,” the agency wrote in a blog post yesterday, countering a report from the San Jose Mercury News on Monday. […]
SFMTA Launches a Smarter Safe Streets Ad Campaign
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The SFMTA has launched a new ad campaign called “Safe Streets SF” that takes the most thoughtful approach to addressing the causes of pedestrian injuries of any city campaign thus far. The ads have started rolling out on Muni buses. One depicts cars stopped in front of a busy, unmarked crosswalk, with the text, “It […]
Eyes on the Street: New Car-Free Fourth Street Extension at UCSF Campus
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The extension of Fourth Street with a car-free promenade appears mostly complete at the University of California, San Francisco campus in Mission Bay. In 2012 we reported on how this project can connect 16th Street to Mariposa Street and the Dogpatch neighborhood without inviting more car traffic as UCSF builds out its development. The new block […]
Just a Reminder: There Are a Ton of Bikes on Market Street
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San Franciscans may take it for granted, but to most Americans, the volume of bike traffic on Market Street resembles a Critical Mass ride more than a weekday rush hour. SF’s main thoroughfare regularly sees more than 3,000 people ride by the bike counter on weekdays at Market and Eighth Streets — and that’s just in […]
Shaping SF Transit History Tour
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From Shaping SF: Meet at 518 Valencia (near 16th) $15-$50 donation requested Tour ends near Embarcadero and Market Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around and over this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that […]
Wiener Moves to Make NACTO Street Design Guides Official Policy for SF
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Supervisor Scott Wiener has introduced a bill that would make the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ guides for Urban Streets and Urban Bikeways official city policy. The SFMTA Board of Directors already adopted the NACTO guides in January, but Wiener’s legislation would establish them as official guidelines for other agencies to use, including the […]
BART Board Election Debate at SHARP
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From SHARP: The BART Board of Directors race may be the most important and contentious race most people have not even heard about. The winner will have a big influence on BART’s multi-million-dollar budget, expansion plans, and negotiations with the labor union representing its workers. As the recent BART strike should have taught us, […]
SFMTA Engineering Hearing
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Agenda Includes red zones for daylighting in the Tenderloin/Nob Hill and more.
Costly New Parking Garages Still Gobbling Up Land at BART Stations
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BART continues to encourage the construction of multi-story parking garages at its stations, despite the exorbitant costs and lost potential for valuable land that could be put to better use. On Monday, Oakland and BART officials held a press conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony to tout the opening of a 481-space parking structure at MacArthur BART station. […]
“Not a Freeway” — Re-Branding the Excesses of the $1.4B Presidio Parkway
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When visitors land on the front page of the Presidio Parkway’s website, they see an animated pelican emerging from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, gliding across green hills and blue skies. When the bird lands, you can “Meet Parker” with a click and learn all about the Presidio Parkway Pelican. The PR team for this […]
Middle Polk Neighborhood Association Meeting with SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin
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On the MPNA agenda: We will be discussing the following topics: The SFMTA’s Future Plans and the ballot funding initiative being voted on this November. The speaker will be the head of the SFMTA, Ed Reskin.
Supes, Mayor Get Developers to Pay Nearly Full Tax for Transbay Rail
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Developers agreed to pay nearly the full property assessment rates to help fund transportation projects in the Transbay Transit Center District, under an agreement announced by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee stood their ground against the developers, who hired former mayor Willie Brown as a lobbyist to try to lower […]