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: Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past
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From SPUR: The 20th century saw a series of ambitious efforts to reimagine the city of San Francisco, alongside the explosive growth of the region. Unbuilt San Francisco: The View From Futures Past presents some of the most revealing episodes in these two streams of civic discourse through projects that were proposed but never realized. Join us […]
SFMTA Engineering Hearing
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Agenda
SFMTA Presents to Middle Polk Neighborhood Association
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From SFMTA: A project update will be provided at a neighborhood meeting sponsored by the Middle Polk Neighborhood Association and Save Polk Street.
SFBC Finds What SFPD Didn’t: Video of Crash That Killed Amelie Le Moullac
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Soon after an SFPD sergeant harassed bicycle advocates at a rally for safer streets at the site where Amelie Le Moullac was killed, SF Bicycle Coalition Program Manager Marc Caswell found what SFPD investigators claimed they couldn’t: two surveillance cameras facing the street, one of which had footage showing the truck driver running over Le […]
Without Traffic Calming, Sunset Blvd. Project a Missed Chance to Save Lives
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Six-lane Sunset Boulevard is one of the city’s most dangerous streets to cross, but that won’t change under plans being developed by the SF Public Utilities Commission. The SFPUC’s Sunset Boulevard Greenway project is aimed at replacing the underground sewer system and re-landscaping the corridor’s grassy medians, which are half a block wide and separate […]
Play Streets: Tenderloin
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From Sunday Streets: San Francisco’s Sunday Streets program, now entering its fifth season of transforming miles of city streets into safe, fun, car-free space for people to enjoy, presents a new program element in 2013: Play Streets for All. This new program draws on Sunday Streets’ organizing expertise, helping community members to create a smaller versions […]
At Safe Streets Rally, SFPD Blocks Bike Lane to Make Point of Victim-Blaming
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Update: Shahum reported that SFBC staffer Marc Caswell found a surveillance camera at an auto body shop which has footage of Le Moullac’s crash, even though SFPD has said no such footage could be found. More on that story later as it develops. San Francisco Police Sergeant Richard Ernst apparently decided that the best way to […]
Watch: “People Behaving Badly” Consults Streetsblog on Bike Lane Safety
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Stanley Roberts asked me to come out yesterday for one of his “People Behaving Badly” segments and help explain how drivers should legally make a right-turn, since CBS 5 didn’t get it quite right. Roberts still didn’t touch on the point that CBS got wrong — drivers can’t just jump in front of people on […]
Irving Merchants Riled by Proposal to Turn 12 Parking Spots Into Public Space
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Once again, a merchant group is contesting a proposal that would improve walking and public space on a San Francisco street. At a community meeting on plans to add greening and sidewalk corner extensions on central Irving Street last week, merchants balked at the idea of removing 10 to 12 parking spaces to extend eight […]
Eyes on the Street: Bike Thief Hit With Ice Cube, Nabbed on Bike Lane
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Last night at about 11:30 p.m., Jessica Kuo came across “a man handcuffed with his face planted against the bike lane” at Market and Valencia Streets in the left-turn bike junction. She reported: A friend who lived in an apartment a block away actually saw the guy steal the bike, and right as he biked away, my […]
At Long Last, Bike-Share Stations Have Begrimed San Francisco
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Feast your eyes: downtown San Francisco has officially been begrimed by Bay Area Bike Share stations. Crews began installing them yesterday in preparation for the five-city launch Thursday of next week. The SFMTA’s Livable Streets team has a photo album going on its Facebook page. If you spot any more, feel free to post pictures in […]
Posted on Masonic: Hilarious Send-Up of Cars-First Vitriol
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Along Masonic Avenue this weekend, an anonymous safe streets advocate found a creative way to call out the absurd behavior of neighbors who showed up way too late in the game to oppose a redesign of the street in a bid to save car parking. The satirical flyers, reported today by Uppercasing, pretty much sum […]