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Don’t Forget To Come Play in the Streets This Sunday!

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 24, 2009 | No Comments

Members of the California Outdoor Rollersports Association perform a Thriller dance at last year’s Sunday Streets. Flickr photo: Jon Bauer This weekend’s Sunday Streets from 9am-1pm on the Embarcadero from the Giants ballpark to Aquatic Park promises to be more thrilling than last year’s, with a lot more activities planned along the waterfront. So don’t […]

Great Streets Project Hires Director, Hits the Streets Running

By Matthew Roth | Apr 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flickr photo: JaimeAndreu Yesterday marked an important day for livable streets in San Francisco. In coordination with the Castro Street CBD, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, and the Mayor’s Office of Greening, the nascent Great Streets Project (GSP) co-hosted a roundtable discussion about how to start and manage successful public spaces, with particular emphasis on the proposed […]

Sausalito To Install Donated Bike Racks for Tourists

By Tom Murphy | Apr 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

A group of tourists visiting from Venezuela. Photo by Pam MacLean. What do you do when hundreds of cyclotourists descend on your bucolic village, clogging sidewalks with rented bikes? The Sausalito City Council is trying to quell a virulent public debate with a tried-and-true solution: install a lot of bike racks. The council voted 4-1 […]

Streetfilms: Behind the Scenes at LA Traffic Control

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

I have to admit: The thought of filming a control room designed to move vehicles more efficiently didn’t excite me at first. But once I met Senior Transportation Engineer Bill Shao and the friendly staff at Los Angeles’ Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control (ATSAC), I was full of curiosity. Developed to help direct traffic during […]

Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”

By Pam MacLean | Apr 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

Bicyclists disembark from the Sausalito ferry. Photo by Tom Murphy Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does […]

Over the Pond

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 13, 2009 | 5 Comments

⁞Cyclists disappear in bus lane while a pedestrian bolts across the street in South London. Editor’s note: While changes appear to be in the works in London on the public space realm (check out our latest Streetfilm posted today), Chris Carlsson got a slightly different take when he visited there last week. I’m on a […]

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