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A Vision For Transforming San Francisco’s “Unaccepted Streets”

By Matthew Roth | Sep 24, 2009 | 7 Comments

A proposed design for an unaccepted street, from Local Code, courtesy Nicholas de Monchaux Throughout San Francisco’s history, from the early street grid to the more recent expansion of freeways, slivers of land that don’t fit into the master plans of architects and designers have been cast aside, lumped into a category the Department of […]

It’s Time to Turn Oak and Fell Into Slow Streets

By Dave Snyder | Sep 24, 2009 | 41 Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 The SFMTA’s plans to install freeway-style traffic information signs on Oak and Fell Streets were not very popular, to say the least, at last week’s meeting of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association. The signs, two of seven the MTA plans to install around the city, are part of the SFgo program […]

Instant Justice on the Streets of Sacramento

By Brad Aaron | Sep 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Here’s another installment in what could ideally become a series on how police departments are doing right by pedestrians and cyclists. We posted the Chicago bike video a couple of weeks back. We now present the Sacramento crosswalk sting. (Warning: Insufferable Geico commercial may precede video.) Back in April, TV station KCRA filmed a plainclothes […]

A Cycling Congress in Mexico

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 23, 2009 | 7 Comments

Respect me: I am also traffic! Guadalajara, Mexico was host this month to the 2nd annual Congress of Cyclists in Mexico, a national gathering of bicyclist activists from around the country. I was invited to give a speech, which I somehow managed to do in Spanish (thanks to my media naranja for translating and coaching […]

Oakland City Council Delays Parking Vote for Two Weeks

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

Oakland’s electronic parking meters. Flickr photo: mlinksva The Oakland City Council voted early this morning to delay action on proposed parking changes until its next meeting. After three hours of discussion that spilled well beyond midnight, a proposal to roll back parking meter enforcement from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. was narrowly defeated, despite calls […]

Oakland City Council to Consider Scaling Back Parking Meter Hours Tonight

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 22, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Grand Lake Theater. Flickr photo: Fragmentary Evidence Facing mounting pressure from merchants and residents, the Oakland City Council will vote tonight (agenda PDF) on whether to partially roll back parking changes that have spurred an effort to recall the entire council. In late June, the council voted to raise the parking meter rates by […]

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