Matthew Roth
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Students in Brooklyn, NY, Paint The Pavement
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New York City has been following the lead of some of the most livable cities in the world with new best practice trials, though arguably none is more enjoyable than the example in this Streetfilm, where the Department of Transportation has worked with the community to transform a city street by painting it beautiful, bright […]
17th Street Plaza Well Used Its First Weekend
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Cameron Kephart, a participant in the AIDS/Lifecycle benefit ride, pedals for donations in the plaza. Photo: Frank Yeean Chan via 17th Street Plaza on Facebook. Despite concern from some neighborhood residents that the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Castro Street would be overrun with drunk revelers, vagrants, and other unsavory characters, those concerns […]
Where’s Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV
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Mayor Newsom’s ride of choice, via josmith94701 on Flickr Apparently I’m not the only one who got the sneaky suspicion Green Gav doesn’t really take transit or ride a bike unless it makes for good publicity. Yet-to-be identified satirists decided to call Mayor Gavin Newsom’s bluff on the nonsense assertion he (or his handlers) made […]
Bike to Work Day Draws Record Crowds of Cyclists
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Leah Shahum addresses hundreds in the crowd at City Hall San Francisco’s annual Bike to Work Day drew a record 200,000 bicyclists this morning, according to early estimates, making it the most successful bike to work day since it began 15 years ago. Crowds of cyclists took advantage of the SFBC Energizer Stations to get […]
Eyes on the Street: A Photographic Ode to Pedestrians
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And a limerick, by Madeleine Begun Kane Oh walk light, you change way too fast. Your pedestrian green doesn’t last. You force me to run Cross the street, which ain’t fun. So thanks for this cumbersome cast.
Mayor Newsom Unveils SF’s First Pavement to Parks Plaza
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Supervisor Dufty and Mayor Newsom at the 17th St. plaza dedication cerimony, via Jamison on Flickr Standing before a crowd of more than 100 people, many of them city staff who had worked to realize the transformation of an underutilized street into a "Pavement to Parks" pedestrian refuge, Mayor Gavin Newsom dedicated the first of […]
Around the Bay on Bike to Work Day
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Flickr photo: kate at yr own risk With excitement building over the anticipated lifting of the Bicycle Injunction this summer, and hope that crews will soon begin work on priority street improvements throughout the bicycle network, advocates in San Francisco are expecting record numbers for the 15th annual Bike to Work Day tomorrow. The SFBC […]
Celebrating San Francisco With a Sunday Streets Bicycle Ride
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Biker baby looking cool. Photo: Matthew Roth The second of six Sunday Streets was a great success as thousands of people got out on a glorious sunny day to pedal, blade, run, skate, and stroll along the waterfront from AT&T park down to India Basin and the Bayview Opera House. By coincidence, my father was […]
Come Celebrate Mothers Day This Sunday in the Bayview
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We hope you’re all getting ready for the second of six Sunday Streets this Sunday in the Bayview from 10 am – 2 pm. The SFBC edited together this lovely video from last year’s Sunday Streets in the Bayview to whet your appetite for good times. See you on your bikes (or blades or boards […]
Advocates, Unions Call for BRT Connector Service to Oakland Airport
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Rendering of the BRT proposal to connect BART to the Oakland Airport, courtesy TransForm In a rally held at the Oakland Coliseum BART station yesterday, transportation and social justice advocates joined with transit and public health unions to call on the BART Board of Directors to study a full-BRT line connecting BART to Oakland Airport, […]
BART Directors Consider Design Concepts for New Rail Cars
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A conceptual rendering the interior of a new BART car with lean bars, courtesy BART The first new BART cars won’t come online until 2014, but BART’s Board of Directors, in a special meeting yesterday, reviewed staff’s proposals (PDF) for procuring 700 new cars (there are currently 669 cars system-wide) and the possibility of upgrading […]
Fear Growing Senator Boxer Won’t Deliver Progressive Transportation Act
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The "High Five" in Dallas, via jmmadrid on Flickr California Senator Barbara Boxer will be at the center of a battle over whether or not the reauthorization of the transportation bill will address the global warming impacts of transportation, given her Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee is responsible for writing much of the […]