Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Copenhagen

Back to Civilization

By Chris Carlsson | | 4 Comments
A wet late afternoon on Norrebrogade in Copenhagen… bikes fill the lanes on either side of the street and a bus is in the near background. Not many cars!… Returning to Copenhagen after some years away is always a pleasant shock. Few cities in the world feel as properly scaled as this lovely old Danish […]

The Copenhagen Moment

By Chris Carlsson | | 13 Comments
October 24, 2009, Bay Street in San Francisco: Riders traverse one potential future shoreline I’ll be leaving in ten days for Scandinavia, and will be sending reports to sf.streetsblog on the upcoming Climate Change conference (known as COP15) and the massive demonstrations that are expected to surround it. I’ve been to Copenhagen (my mother was […]

SF Transportation Authority Launches iPhone App to Track Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | | 31 Comments
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA), the city’s congestion management agency responsible for modeling transportation and development patterns, has released its new bicycle route data application, Cycle Tracks, for iPhones and GPS-enabled iTunes players at the iTunes store. Like similar applications that give information such as speed and distance traveled, users of the TA […]

Should I Wear a Helmet Today?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
The Naparstek boys riding last year’s Summer Streets event… wearing helmets. Sarah’s "Too Much Emphasis on Safety" post yesterday brings up the question in the headline above. A Canadian Broadcasting TV crew doing a documentary on biking is filming me as I take my two sons to school on our Dutch cargo bike today. While […]

Another Model of Convivial Spaces

By Chris Carlsson | | 13 Comments
Crowds stretch down Glasgow, Scotland’s Buchanan Street pedestrian-only zone. In Glasgow, Scotland a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with a lovely feature of many European cities: broad central city streets converted to pedestrian only. In Glasgow it’s on Sauchiehall Street and makes a grand turn onto Buchanan, covering over 20 […]

Planning Department Unveils San Francisco’s First Pedestrian Priority Street

By Matthew Roth | | 8 Comments
The proposed design for a single-surface pedestrian priority Jefferson Street The City Design Group at the Planning Department has released its proposal for transforming Jefferson Street at Fisherman’s Wharf into a single-surface pedestrian priority street, the first of its size in San Francisco. Based on shared space or woonerfs, the plan calls for removing traditional […]
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