Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable City

Say What?

By Chris Carlsson | May 24, 2010 | 26 Comments

The vibrations and rumble of cable cars used to occur on many of San Francisco’s streets. We are often attracted to city life for the energy, the boisterousness, the noise. I am a city guy having lived all my life in cities (born in Brooklyn, Chicago until age 10, Oakland until 17, and San Francisco […]

MTA Could Boost Revenue by Enforcing Downtown Commuter Parking Law

By Michael Rhodes | Mar 31, 2010 | 41 Comments

Unlike numerous downtown garages, this one adheres to planning code and charges a non-discounted monthly parking rate. Photo: Michael Rhodes. You’d hardly know that it’s illegal to charge discounted daily and monthly parking rates at numerous downtown San Francisco garages because enforcement of the law is almost non-existent. Planning Code Section 155(g) prohibits discount rates […]

Better Streets Plan Provisions Stripped from Chiu Garage Legislation

By Michael Rhodes | Mar 18, 2010 | 12 Comments

Revised legislation could slow down Ellis Act evictions in Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill, but would not require garages to meet the design principles in the Better Streets Plan. Photo: Michael Rhodes In a move to gain the support of Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu has stripped language from his […]

First Sunday Streets of 2010 A Big Hit

By Matthew Roth | Mar 15, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo: sirgious On an incredible spring day with temperatures in the 60s, thousands of people descended on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the first Sunday Streets of 2010, riding, skating, dancing, hula hooping, and swinging in the coolest bicycle-powered amusement park ride I’ve ever seen. With over three miles of the northbound lanes of […]

Head to the Embarcadero this Weekend for the Year’s First Sunday Streets!

By Michael Rhodes | Mar 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

Susan King of Livable City flanked by beautiful bikes. Photos: Michael Rhodes As if the lure of playing in the street wasn’t enough, city leaders and organizers gathered at City Hall yesterday afternoon to promote the first of nine Sunday Streets events this year, which will run along the Embarcadero up to Fisherman’s Wharf [route […]

MTA Board May Finally Get Creative on Funding, But Obstacles Remain

By Michael Rhodes | Mar 5, 2010 | 17 Comments

MTA Executive Director Nat Ford and Board members Jerry Lee, James McCray, and Chairman Tom Nolan. Could the bleakest budget in the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s history force its directors to finally get creative in funding Muni? The answer, judging from Tuesday’s MTA Board meeting, is yes. Fresh off approving a 10 percent cut […]

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