Matthew Roth
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Newsom Christens New Mojo Cafe “Parklet,” Pledges More to Come
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DPW Director Ed Reiskin, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, and Mayor Gavin Newsom standing in what used to be two parking spaces. Photos: Matthew Roth With scores of people crowding the sidewalk and taking up one lane of traffic on Divisadero in front of Mojo Bicycle Cafe, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and city department heads […]
Eyes on the Street: Frightening Car Crash at Sloat and 19th Ave
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These are photos of a serious crash at the intersection of Sloat and 19th Avenue that happened just after 1 pm today. Thanks to Streetsblog reader Nick for the tip and the photos. Here’s his account: There was a pretty bad car wreck on 19th Avenue today just after 1PM. At least one person needed […]
Protected Bike Lane on Market Street Keeps Getting Better
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The new pavement markings make it much clearer where cyclists and cars are supposed to switch lanes on Market Street near 11th Street. Photos: Matthew Roth The gradually evolving traffic rearrangement on Market Street got a boost yesterday as the MTA re-striped the bicycle and motor vehicle crossing zone at Market and 11th, clarifying how […]
Cyclists Be Warned, the New Acura Is Coming to Town
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It always makes my skin crawl when I see a car commercial shot in a city with a sporty sedan hurtling down the street, promising ersatz liberation through reckless driving. But the conversation Joe Eskenazi at SF Weekly had with an Acura PR representative today is hilarious. Or terrifying, you decide: When folks from Acura […]
Broad AC Transit Service Cuts Coming, But There Could Be a Silver Lining
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AC Transit Route 72R. Flickr photo: daniel_gies AC Transit announced today it plans to cut service on 108 of 113 lines across the East Bay on March 28th, amounting to an 8 percent overall reduction. Despite the broad cuts, the agency is pitching the change as one that will spare its most transit-dependent riders. By […]
First Sunday Streets of 2010 A Big Hit
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Photo: sirgious On an incredible spring day with temperatures in the 60s, thousands of people descended on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the first Sunday Streets of 2010, riding, skating, dancing, hula hooping, and swinging in the coolest bicycle-powered amusement park ride I’ve ever seen. With over three miles of the northbound lanes of […]
Eyes on the Street: A Bird Behind the Bridge and Parrots on a Pole
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Photo: Benjamin Heath Thanks you as always for adding your beautiful photos to our Streetsblog San Francisco Flickr pool. Please send us your best shots and we might feature them on the blog. Anyone have a picture of the parrots flying around Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill? Photo: Kristin Tieche
Eyes on the Street: Mojo Cafe Gets a Wider Sidewalk
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Photos: Matthew Roth With the official unveiling of the new Mojo Cafe "parklet" coming early next week, RG Architecture’s crew (with volunteers from the SF Great Streets Project) scrambled to complete the wooden sidewalk extension with enough time to work out any kinks before Mayor Gavin Newsom heralds the innovation with a crowd of media […]
Eyes on the Street: Market and 10th Get New Bike Lane Design
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Photos: Matthew Roth After experimenting with one configuration for soft-hit posts for a few weeks along Market Street approaching 10th Street, the MTA has changed the configuration to give cyclists more room in approaching the intersection. The new soft hit posts extend from just before the intersection at 11th Street and Market up to 10th […]
The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street
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Trial traffic diversions on Market Street. Photo: sfbike With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put […]
San Francisco Designing Public Amenities in Empty Lots
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Architectural rendering of two parcels adjacent to Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley, one of which is currently vacant and the other a parking lot. The project, called "proxy," would be developed for two to three years in space that will eventually be housing. Images: Envelope Architecture and Design. At a forum hosted by the San […]
Streetscast: Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google’s Bike Map
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The wait for bicycle directions on Google Maps has finally ended as the company announced a beta version of its new bicycle directions feature at the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. this morning. The new mapping software includes an elegant overlay of bicycle routes based on priority bicycle streets and […]