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San Francisco is Sinking!

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 17, 2009 | 11 Comments

UN Plaza, Market and 7th, the waters from the subterranean "Mighty Hayes River"!! Famously, we live on a crack in the earth. The San Andreas Fault gets most of our attention, followed not too far behind these days by the equally ominous Hayward Fault. A major earthquake on either of these could alter local landscapes […]

Everyday “City Bikes” Need a Stimulus

By Dave Snyder | Sep 14, 2009 | 21 Comments

This Oma-fiets (or, Grandma-bicycle, in Dutch) sits for sale at the Market Street storefront of "My Dutch Bike" while a typical "American" bike is pedaled by outside. Photo by Frank Chan. Like so many people, when Soraya Nasirian saw Dutch people on bicycles, she had an epiphany. "Why aren’t more Americans riding bicycles like this?" […]

Gentrification, Livable Streets and Community Stability

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 9, 2009 | 8 Comments

Planters and a tree on Mission between 9th and 10th… Planktown Neighbors effort to beautify this central city area. Cities don’t stand still. Going back at least to WWII, U.S. cities have been radically altered again and again. Economic restructuring has been part of it, as urban areas have shed manufacturing in favor of the […]

Sunday Streets to Become Permanent in San Francisco

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 4, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel On the weekend eve of the final Sunday Streets of the year, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the seasonal events creating wide swaths of car-free space will become permanent in San Francisco. “This Sunday’s event is the finale for 2009, but Sunday Streets will be back in 2010 with more routes, longer […]

Shoup Weighs in on Oakland Parking Controversy

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 3, 2009 | 7 Comments

A newly installed SFpark parking meter in San Francisco. The SFpark program was inspired by Donald Shoup’s theories on parking management. Photo: Bryan Goebel If the recent parking battle in Oakland had you thinking of UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, you’re not alone. After the Oakland City Council raised parking fines and extended parking meter hours […]

Marin County Bike Co-Op ‘A Community Hub for Culture and Technology’

By Pam MacLean | Sep 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Bicycle Works grand opening celebration August 9. Flickr photo: cproppe Pairing environmentalism with a do-it-yourself ethic, a couple of guys who live the bike culture opened Marin County’s first co-op bike repair shop, Bicycle Works, and already have people clamoring to sign up. Less than a month after the grand opening Aug. 9, "Spokey" […]

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