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After 6 Ped Deaths in 3 Months, SF Needs City Hall Action on Street Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 2, 2013 | 9 Comments

In the first three months of 2013, six pedestrians have been killed on San Francisco streets. At that rate, the city is on course for pedestrian deaths to rise for the third year in a row. The trend is striking: Since 2010, when 14 pedestrians were killed on San Francisco streets, more have died each […]

85 Percent of People on Polk Street Arrive Without a Car

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 29, 2013 | 95 Comments

Updated 4:36 p.m. If San Franciscans were to believe the hyperbole and fearmongering spread by merchants leading the “Save Polk Street Coalition,” removing even a small proportion of car parking along the corridor to make the street safer and more inviting will kill businesses. But new survey data from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency shows that […]

How Car Parking Can Make Earthquakes More Dangerous in San Francisco

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2013 | 8 Comments

The threat of earthquakes that could destroy the homes of thousands at any moment has always loomed over San Francisco. In a bid to to reduce that risk, the Board of Supervisors is expected next week to mandate seismic retrofits for nearly 3,000 wood-frame “soft-story” buildings with five housing units or more that are potentially […]

Planning Commission Approves Ped-Friendly Plan for Market and Dolores

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 18, 2013 | 14 Comments

A plan to add a mini plaza and pedestrian safety improvements at Market and Dolores streets was approved by the SF Planning Commission on Thursday. The project will include new pedestrian refuges and sidewalks as wide as 14 feet, as well as special pavement treatments to highlight crosswalks on the block of Dolores between Market and […]

Driver Kills Hector Arana, 69; SFPD: “It Was Just an Unfortunate Accident”

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 15, 2013 | 10 Comments

A driver hit and killed 69-year-old Hector Arana on Wednesday morning at 6:26 a.m. on six-lane San Jose Avenue in the Outer Mission neighborhood. According to reports, the driver was headed northbound in the direction of the nearby 280 freeway, when he hit Arana near the intersection of Liebig Street, where Google Maps shows legal but […]

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As Bike-Share Pilot Lurches Along, Supe Wiener Calls for Full-Scale Launch

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2013 | 17 Comments

While San Franciscans eagerly await the repeatedly-delayed launch of the Bay Area’s small-scale bike-share pilot program, which has now been downsized to a minuscule 700 bikes (350 of them in SF), Supervisor Scott Wiener says San Francisco needs to take the initiative to move ahead and launch a “full-scale system” throughout the city by next year. Wiener plans […]

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