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Tomorrow: Show Your Support for the Fell and Oak Bikeways

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 30, 2012 | 9 Comments

The SFMTA will reveal the proposed design for protected bike lanes on Fell and Oak Streets tomorrow, and supporters need to make their voices heard to ensure the agency doesn’t water the project down or it delay it any further. The project was significantly delayed after the SFMTA set out to replace some of the […]

SFPD Issues Targeted Enforcement Plan to Reduce Pedestrian Injuries

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

The San Francisco Police Department yesterday announced a commitment to reduce pedestrian injuries through targeted enforcement of dangerous driving. In a joint statement with Walk SF, the SFPD said it will target violations like speeding and red light-running, especially in areas with the highest pedestrian injury rates. SFPD also plans to sign an agreement soon to share data with […]

Planning Commission OKs Parking-Saturated Condo Project at Embarcadero

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 23, 2012 | 15 Comments

A luxury waterfront condo and parking garage development is on its way to the central Embarcadero, even though it would add three times the number of residential parking spaces allowed by law, plus 255 public spaces, to one of San Francisco’s most transit-rich destinations. The SF Planning Commission approved the environmental impact report for the […]

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Eyes on the Street: More Progress on JFK Drive Parking-Protected Bikeway

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 22, 2012 | 4 Comments

Crews have placed preliminary road markings for the coming re-design of JFK Drive in front of the Conservatory of Flowers. Next month, JFK will become the first street in San Francisco where cyclists are protected from moving traffic by parked cars. The markings, for the time being, give bicyclists a teaser of how the protected bikeway will look, with […]

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Crews Installing Bike Lanes, Two-Way Bikeway on C. Chavez and Cargo Way

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 21, 2012 | 15 Comments

Two bike corridors connecting the city’s southeastern neighborhoods should be safer after crews finish constructing buffered bike lanes on eastern Cesar Chavez Street and a two-way protected bikeway on Cargo Way. Bike commuters are already enjoying more room on a section of eastern Cesar Chavez, where car parking has been cleared and preliminary striping put on […]

Six Ideas for Saving Bay Area Transit

By Egon Terplan | Mar 14, 2012 | 27 Comments

[Editor’s note: This article is re-published with permission from the transit-themed March issue of The Urbanist, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) monthly member magazine. The article, written by SPUR Regional Planning Director Egon Terplan, is based on a discussion paper developed by the SPUR Transportation Policy Board. Read the full paper at spur.org/tsp.] […]

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