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Water Wars, Past and Future!

By Chris Carlsson | Jul 7, 2009 | 2 Comments

Neighbors have created this triangular oasis at Clayton and Corbett in Upper Eureka Valley. One essential way to enjoy the streets of San Francisco is to get out and walk around. We have so many amazing walks at our doorsteps. In the hills are hidden staircases, promontories and open hilltops with amazing views, and secret […]

Things Are Heating Up!

By Chris Carlsson | Jul 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

New Bike Plan! Let’s Get Naked and Celebrate! Critical Mass San Francisco, June 2009. I was glad to see “We Are the World” on the ridiculously inadequate Climate Change bill that finally emerged from the corrupt U.S. Congress. Sadly, the bill could only emerge with the support of a number of mainstream environmental lobbyists in […]

Revisiting the San Francisco Freeway Revolt

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 11, 2009 | 27 Comments

Editor’s note: This piece was written for Shaping San Francisco and is now incorporated into the new wiki version, your best place to research San Francisco history, FoundSF.org. Protesters march along Embarcadero in early 1960s, stump of Embarcadero Freeway ends behind them at Broadway. Photo courtesy San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library In the […]

For a City of Panhandles! Copenhagenize it!

By Chris Carlsson | May 19, 2009 | 14 Comments

Mona Caron’s rendition of 24th and Folsom after we’ve made a few basic changes. (Thanks to Mona Caron for this image, originally published in the Bay Guardian in 2006.) We’ve been waiting for years now to see some physical changes to accommodate the huge increase in daily bicycling. We did get an odd set of […]

CBS 5’s Joe Vazquez Has a Critical Math Problem

By Chris Carlsson | May 7, 2009 | 20 Comments

Critical Mass, March 2009. Photo by Bryan Goebel. I got a call a week ago from the SF Bike Coalition‘s media person. She was looking for someone to talk to Joe Vazquez of CBS 5, a reporter who was going to do a piece on Critical Mass. I declined, having been interviewed far too often […]

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 […]

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