Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable City

BART Board Will Soon Debate Raising Parking Fees

By Matthew Roth | Mar 20, 2009 | 10 Comments

Raising the price of parking is a contentious issue anywhere, but it’s particularly divisive for the BART Board of Directors, who may be debating a proposal from their finance committee as soon as next Thursday’s board meeting to raise parking fees to mitigate their soaring budget deficit. "Free parking is not free for BART," said […]

The Clamor for a Better Market Street Grows Louder

By Matthew Roth | Mar 16, 2009 | 11 Comments

A rendering of the 1900 unit Trinity Plaza development at Market and 8th Street As we reported last week, several city agencies have begun to look at ways to improve Market Street when it is repaved, including an inter-agency process spearheaded by DPW and the Planning Department. Yet, we’ve still heard nothing from Mayor Gavin […]

Streetfilm: Making a Better Market Street

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 16, 2009 | 8 Comments

Just about everyone who visits San Francisco’s grand Market Street is awed by its hustle and bustle, the myriad modes of transportation, and some of the beautiful architecture the city hosts. But just about everyone also agrees that Market Street has a much bigger potential as a people space that accommodates its users in more […]

Sunday Streets Will Expand to Six Days This Year

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Taking another page from the international movement spawned by Bogotá’s wildly successful Ciclovia, and just two days after Seattle announced its Summer Streets initiative, the official word is out: San Francisco’s Sunday Streets campaign is proposing expanding to six Sundays this year, or one a month for six months, beginning April 26th. This time around, […]

John Muir and Livable Cities

By Jason Henderson | Feb 11, 2009 | 3 Comments

Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite. Over the holiday I read a new biography of John Muir, the iconic Victorian-era environmentalist and tireless advocate for wilderness conservation who helped establish the Sierra Club. Written by environmental historian Donald Worster, the book narrates Muir’s well-known struggle and political machinations over the damming of Hetch Hetchy. […]

Advocates Ask Supes to Support a Two-Way Hayes

By Matthew Roth | Feb 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

Advocates are calling for all livable streets supporters who have the time to turn out to the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting today at 1pm to voice their support for a two-way Hayes Street, as was called for in the Market and Octavia Plan. In 2007, the Hayes Valley Neighborhood […]

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