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
Mission Valencia Green Gateway Final Design Concept Presentation
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From SFPUC: The Mission & Valencia Green Gateway is a partnership of the SFPUC, Planning Department, and Department of Public Works, located along Valencia Street between Cesar Chavez and Mission streets. This project will feature innovative green infrastructure technologies, which may include rain gardens, permeable pavement and bulb outs to naturally capture stormwater before it enters our […]
Folks for Polk Dine-and-Discuss-on-Polk
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From SFBC: Join Folks for Polk at their first event of their Design Brainstorm weekend, a casual Dine-and-Discuss-on-Polk at The Crepe House. Come hear what special guests and advocates have to say about Polk street and how it can be made safer and more livable. Reduced prices on bottles of wine for those attending. Confirmed […]
Folks for Polk Sunday Design Happy Hour
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From SFBC: End your weekend with Folks for Polk as they wrap up their Design Brainstorm weekend. Drop by for a pint at Bitters, Bock & Rye and join the conversation with special guests and advocates as they envision a safer and more livable Polk Street. Confirmed guests: Cheryl Brinkman (SFMTA Board), Dr. Shirley Johnson […]
Tonight: Balance Out Pro-Parking Extremism and Support a Safer Potrero
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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. Whereas […]
Supes Narrowly Reject EIR Appeal Against Car-Free Condos at 1050 Valencia
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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. The project, approved by the Planning Commission more than a year […]
In SF, Bay Area Bike Share’s Bikes Get Almost Three Trips Per Day
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Following an underwhelming start, Bay Area Bike Share now sees an average of at least 2.5 trips per bike per day within San Francisco, according to the SFMTA. Since September 10, the average rate in SF has held mostly steady at about 2.7, and goes as high as 3.7. For the entire five-city system, the average […]
ENUF Delays Mission Parking Meters by Protesting the Wrong Ordinance
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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. But in what appears to be a misinterpretation of the hearing notice, Eliza called on residents to protest […]
How a Poll Showing SF’s Pro-Bike Attitudes Can Change the Conversation
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If you listen to the public discourse about re-allocating street space to make bicycling safer in San Francisco, a pattern in the naysayers’ message quickly emerges. “Only a small margin of people ride bicycles, and those people don’t deserve space for safer travel,” goes the refrain. “Traffic lanes and parking for cars are too important […]
Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Becomes Golf Fan Parking at Lake Merced
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A buffered, post-separated bike lane on John Muir Drive along Lake Merced was commandeered for car parking this weekend for attendees of a golf tournament. Staff from the “Champion’s Tour” Charles Schwab Cup Championship were directing drivers to treat the bike lane as an angled parking lane. Attendees and passersby using the bike lane for its […]
Man in Wheelchair Killed by Freeway-Bound Driver at Market and Octavia
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A man in a wheelchair, reportedly in his 20s, was killed by a driver at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard around midnight last night. SFPD spokesperson Albie Esparza said the crash is still under investigation, but that driver appears to have been heading south on Octavia at the entrance of the Central Freeway, where witnesses […]
SPUR Forum: The Nature of Urban Design
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From SPUR: Image courtesy of Flickr user UGArdener The new book The Nature of Urban Design offers a road map for the urban design process — a tool that can transform cities while breaking down barriers between those who change cities and those who are changed by them. Join the author in a conversation about how we can […]