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
SFBC Releases Mayoral Candidates Q&A: Who Will Be the Favorites?
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The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has posted the responses from its questionnaires submitted to the mayoral candidates, as the organization’s 12,000 members begin voting on who to endorse in the November 8th election. Almost all of the sixteen candidates responded, with the exception of Michela Alioto-Pier and Jeff Adachi. From the SFBC’s Bike Vote 2011 […]
Young Woman Killed by Muni Driver Remembered in the Castro
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Her name was Emily Dunn, and over the weekend, a steady stream of friends and people who never knew her brought flowers, candles and photos of her to the site in the Castro where the young woman was killed Friday afternoon by a Muni driver. A grief-stricken friend, who I met Saturday, said Dunn, who […]
Cesar Chavez East Community Design Plan Workshop
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At this workshop: The Planning Department will discuss and ask your feedback on design alternatives for the Cesar Chavez East corridor from Hampshire Street to Illinois Street The SFMTA will give an update on the latest design of the near-term bicycle project for the corridor. The community plan re-thinks Cesar Chavez Street as a vital […]
SFPD Numbers Confirm Cops Targeting Bicyclists on Market Street
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Despite the department’s insistence that officers are not targeting bicyclists on Market Street, new numbers from the San Francisco Police Department confirm that cops are going after people on bikes following two high-profile crashes. Last Friday, as part of SFPD’s traffic safety campaign [pdf], officers beefed up enforcement at 5th and Market and issued a […]
Eyes on the Street: What Do You Think of the New SFO Bike Lanes?
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New bike lanes were recently installed around San Francisco International Airport, and the reviews are coming in. Streetsblog San Francisco reader John Murphy, who was the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s 2010 Commuter of the Year, thinks there’s lots of room for improvement. He sent us this scolding review, along with the photos: The new bike […]
Mayor, SFMTA, Walk SF Announce First 15 MPH School Zone
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San Francisco became the first large California city to implement a 15 mph speed zone around a school this morning, as SFMTA workers installed one of four signs that will go up around George Peabody Elementary School on 7th Avenue in the Richmond District. It’s part of a groundbreaking citywide initiative pushed by walking advocates […]
New Designs to Be Presented for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street
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New designs have been drawn up for eastern Cesar Chavez Street and will be presented to the community next week, nearly two months after a contentious meeting in which attendees were told, just days before the striping of new bike lanes, that plans for a road diet were being scrapped by the Mayor’s Office and […]
SPUR: How Will 1.7 Million More People Cross the Bay?
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Crossing the Bay from SPUR on Vimeo. SPUR has produced a new video that asks: How will 1.7 million more people cross the Bay? From the SPUR blog: In the last century, visionary planners made major investments linking San Francisco and the East Bay. When the 20th century dawned, the only way to get from […]
Why the SFMTA Doesn’t Install Short-Term Residential Bike Parking
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Earlier this year, I hired one of my favorite bike courier companies to deliver an urgent parcel. When the messenger arrived at my door to pick it up (I work from home), he complained about the lack of bike parking in the neighborhood. He knew who I was and asked, bluntly: “Why doesn’t Streetsblog have […]
The Tenderloin Finally Gets a Taste of Car-Free Sunday Streets
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Mary San George was sitting outside her neighborhood flower store yesterday, facing the historic residential high-rise building on O’Farrell Street where she has lived for 27 years, and marveling at something she very rarely gets to experience in her Tenderloin neighborhood: a street full of people instead of cars. “People use this street like a […]
Nancy Ho, Bicyclist Killed in SoMa, Remembered by Family, Friends
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The family and friends of Nancy Ho, the 25-year-old woman who was killed by a delivery truck driver while riding her bicycle on Mission Street in SoMa last month, came together recently to honor her life. Ho’s relatives and closest friends have been too grief-stricken to talk to us, but a college friend recently sent […]
A Year After Bike Injunction Lifting, SF Blazes Ahead With Improvements
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It was one year ago last Thursday that a San Francisco judge freed the city from its four-year-old bicycle injunction, and allowed the SFMTA to finally begin building out the long stalled Bike Plan. Since the chains were unlocked, the number of bicyclists on the streets has dramatically risen, thanks in no small part to […]