Bryan Goebel
Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
Recent Posts
A San Francisco Bicyclist’s Terrifying Commute Home
| | 60 Comments
Flickr photo: Jaimie Ho San Francisco bicyclists face daily hostility on the streets from motorists, but a Streetsblog reader’s account of her frightening commute home this week is one that especially stands out, and could potentially amount to hate crime and vehicular assault charges if the assailants are caught. It also serves as a stark […]
Better Streets Plan Discussion on KALW Radio Tonight
| | 3 Comments
City Visions Radio will be discussing the Better Streets Plan tonight, looking "into San Francisco’s evolving bicycle and pedestrian plans, and how this ties into a long-term vision for San Francisco’s streets." Host Joseph Pace will be joined by Marc Caswell, the program manager for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Manish Champsee, the president of […]
Layoffs Hit Street Cleaning, Gardening Crews at DPW
| | 4 Comments
DPW landscaping crews who’ve been working on the Pavement to Parks plazas are among those being cut. Flickr photo: Jamison San Franciscans are likely to see slower response times to street cleaning requests and a reduction in landscaping and tree maintenance in their neighborhoods following a number of layoffs announced this week at the Department […]
Bike Capacity to Increase on Capitol Corridor Trains
| | 8 Comments
Flickr photo: Cheryl and Rich Caltrans and the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) have announced an increase in bicycle capacity on the nation’s third-busiest Amtrak line, which serves 16 stations spanning eight Northern California counties, after a survey of riders found that nearly nine percent, or 150,000, of its estimated 1.7 million annual rail […]
San Francisco Moves to Remake Market Street
| | 29 Comments
A highly conceptual image from the SFCTA of what a re-visioned Market Street could look like. Five San Francisco agencies, together with a number of community partners, will initiate a series of bold trials this month, which they hope will eventually help transform Market Street into a revitalized, thriving city thoroughfare, bustling with "activated public […]
Streetscast: An Interview with San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón
| | 8 Comments
Police Chief George Gascón. Photo: Michael Rhodes San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón is considering forming a task force to deal with bicycle and pedestrian issues, and "is very much in favor" of appointing a liaison to the bicycling community, as he begins to weigh a pressing number of livable streets concerns in the city. […]
Streetfilms: The Final Sunday Streets of 2009
| | 5 Comments
Despite a blanket of fog, the last Sunday Streets of 2009 was, from all accounts, a smashing success, one of the most popular so far, with thousands of people enjoying four activity-filled hours of pristine car-free space through Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway. John Hamilton, who produced a very inspiring Streetfilm on San […]
Happy Labor Day
| | 2 Comments
Photo: Caltrans via smi23le’s Flickr page. We’re taking the day off for Labor Day, even though there’s plenty to write about. By now you’ve probably heard crews discovered a crack in the Bay Bridge and it may not reopen tomorrow as scheduled. An announcement is expected late this afternoon. More coverage from our friends at […]
Judge Agrees to Delay Hearing to Consider Lifting Bike Injunction
| | 16 Comments
There’s word from the City Attorney’s office this afternoon that the hearing to consider lifting the bike injunction has been delayed. From the press release: Though a hearing on the City Attorney’s motion to lift the injunction against the San Francisco Bicycle Plan had initially been set for Sept. 24, counsel for anti-bicycle petitioners "Coalition […]
Sunday Streets to Become Permanent in San Francisco
| | 4 Comments
Photo: Bryan Goebel On the weekend eve of the final Sunday Streets of the year, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the seasonal events creating wide swaths of car-free space will become permanent in San Francisco. “This Sunday’s event is the finale for 2009, but Sunday Streets will be back in 2010 with more routes, longer […]
Will Nat Ford’s Reorganization Help Change the Culture of the MTA?
| | 14 Comments
MTA Chief Nat Ford in an interview earlier this year with Streetsblog. Photo by Bryan Goebel. MTA Chief Nat Ford announced an encouraging reorganization (PDF) of his top brass this week, a move which may usher in a much needed change in the structure of the agency, and potentially give less power to the old […]
City Attorney’s Office Files Motion to Lift Bike Injunction
| | 36 Comments
Staffers for City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office deliver the massive filing to the courthouse this afternoon. Photo by Marc Caswell. After more than three frustrating years without any major bike improvements in San Francisco, it appears what bike activists hope will be the final court showdown for the bike injunction is just weeks away. This […]