Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Judge Poses Questions to Attorneys on Eve of Final Bike Injunction Hearing

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 21, 2010 | 7 Comments

All eyes will be on the courthouse tomorrow for some hint of when the bike injunction will be lifted. Photo: Mansley On the eve of what bicyclists, advocates and SFMTA officials hope will be the final hearing to consider fully lifting the city’s bike injunction, a San Francisco judge issued a list of questions for […]

Advocates: Brentwood Sprawl Measure a Litmus Test for SB 375

By Matthew Roth | Jun 10, 2010 | 9 Comments

The ongoing struggle to contain growth within urban boundaries will likely move to San Ramon this November. Photo: cjaureque While municipal planning organizations around California try to develop the metrics and models required to meet the goals of SB 375, a law mandating smarter growth, a local voter initiative in Contra Costa County is being […]

Mission Community Market Hopes to Revitalize Dormant Street

By Matthew Roth | Jun 9, 2010 | 16 Comments

Organizers of the nascent Mission Community Market hope to transform an underutilized block of Bartlett Street in the Mission into a thriving weekly market, where vendors sell their goods and kids play in the street after school. As an initial test, the Mission Community Market Collaborative (MCMC) is throwing a block party and fundraiser on […]

“Grow Smart Bay Area” Promotes Development as a Tool for Change

By Matthew Roth | Jun 2, 2010 | 15 Comments

Click the map to enlarge. Image: Greenbelt Alliance. Even as our freeways and bridges in the Bay Area are choked with traffic for hours every day, the population in the region is projected to grow from over 7 million now to over 9 million by 2025. Deciding where to build housing to accommodate the growth […]

Statistics Alone Paint an Incomplete Picture of Women and Bicycles

By Regina Hope Sinsky | Jun 1, 2010 | 9 Comments

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." — Susan […]

Technology and Impotence

By Chris Carlsson | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

The BP oil spill goes on. And on. We watch the oil on live web cam pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. And we watch. Political rage is muted, practical responses even more distant. What to do? How do we “take action” on something like this? How can individuals meaningfully respond to this catastrophe? Stop driving? Boycott one brand of gas? Stop buying things made of plastic?

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