Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Candidates Talk Streets and Parks at Mayoral Forum

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

Eight mayoral candidates turned out for last night’s forum on streets and parks sponsored by Walk San Francisco, the Neighborhood Parks Council and Friends of the Urban Forest. The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club’s endorsement meeting was also going on, and some of the candidates, who were juggling schedules, either showed up early and […]

Mayoral Debate Monday Night Will Focus on Streets and Parks

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

A mayoral debate scheduled for Monday night promises to be the best yet on issues near and dear to Streetsblog readers. Sponsored by Walk SF, the Neighborhood Parks Council and the Friends of the Urban Forest, the forum will tackle a variety of important questions on pedestrian safety, sustainable transportation, parks and the state of […]

Anger Follows William Cox’s Violent Death on the Streets of Duboce Triangle

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 8, 2011 | 32 Comments

On most recent mornings, 59-year-old William Cox walked several blocks from his Mission District apartment to the bustling Peet’s store on Market Street in the Castro for his daily dose of coffee, crossword puzzles and conversation. He had given up his Jeep Cherokee shortly after moving to San Francisco from San Rafael two-and-half years ago […]

Behind President Obama’s Call For More Infrastructure Projects

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 7, 2011 | No Comments

Tomorrow night, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan before a skeptical Congress. It’s unclear how much of the $300 billion proposal will go to infrastructure, but the president has said that will be a centerpiece of the proposal. An infrastructure bank and a new version of the expired Build America Bonds program could also […]

City Planner Hurt by Driver Making Illegal Right Turn at Market and Octavia

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 25, 2011 | 73 Comments

John Billovits is all too familiar with the perils of one of the city’s most hazardous intersections for bicyclists. For the past decade, he has traveled through the Market and Octavia intersection on his daily bicycle commute. As a senior planner at the San Francisco Planning Department, Billovits was also the project manager for the […]

Planning Department Releases Tentative Street Redesigns for Broadway

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 24, 2011 | 23 Comments

The Planning Department, working with the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), the SFMTA and SFDPW, recently released three options for dramatically improving the pedestrian environment on a two-and-a-half block stretch of Broadway, a high-volume two-way arterial that cuts through North Beach and Chinatown, a neighborhood that is “the most densely populated urban area west of […]

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