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Mission Sunday Streets Expected to Draw Largest Crowds Yet

By Matthew Roth | May 20, 2009 | 9 Comments

Flickr Photo: nocturalperambulations When tens of thousands of people come out to the first of two Sunday Streets in the Mission on June 7th, they will find a route that winds through some of the densest pedestrian streets in San Francisco, a route that at just over two miles is half as long as previous […]

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 […]

Where is the MTA Board’s Leadership on the Budget Crisis?

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 22, 2009 | 6 Comments

MTA Chair Tom Nolan. Aside from Malcolm Heinicke’s proposal to tax rental cars at SFO — which was apparently shot down by legal staff — no member of the MTA Board of Directors has offered any ideas for generating new revenue, other than toying or saying yay or nay to recommendations presented by staff, to […]

Bayview Merchants Hopeful Sunday Streets Will Bring Business

By Matthew Roth | Apr 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

A block of predominantly female-owned businesses that will participate in Sunday Streets It’s been reported that the Fisherman’s Wharf merchants who vocally opposed Sunday Streets along the Embarcadero last year now proclaim their support for the day and are programming numerous events to coincide with the street closures this Sunday. But merchants in Bayview never […]

The Rear Door Problem With Muni’s New Hybrid Buses

By Tony Vi | Apr 21, 2009 | 34 Comments

Photo by Tony Vi If you’ve ridden any of Muni’s new low-floor hybrids you’ve most likely encountered or witnessed the sometimes challenging task of opening the rear doors. The buses, from Orion Bus Industries, have a fault that prevents them from realizing the full benefits of the low-floor design. What should be a seemingly simple […]

Mayor Newsom, Caltrans Announce Plans to Remove Portions of I-280

By Matthew Roth | Apr 1, 2009 | 9 Comments

A controlled explosion from the filming of the TV series "Trauma," on a closed portion of I-280 Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced one of his most ambitious plans for re-shaping San Francisco, telling reporters at a press conference with Caltrans Director Will Kemption and Caltrain Director Michael Scanlan that the city would move forward with […]

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