Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Talk of Bike Tax Riles Cyclists in Sausalito

By Tom Murphy | Mar 16, 2010 | 39 Comments

Photo: Bike and Roll San Francisco Talk of a one-dollar tax on rental bikes in Sausalito is fanning long-simmering tensions between the picturesque city and the local cycling community. While most cities in the San Francisco Bay Area complain there aren’t enough tourists, some Sausalitans have the opposite concern – too many tourists riding rented […]

Broad AC Transit Service Cuts Coming, But There Could Be a Silver Lining

By Matthew Roth and Michael Rhodes | Mar 15, 2010 | 17 Comments

AC Transit Route 72R. Flickr photo: daniel_gies AC Transit announced today it plans to cut service on 108 of 113 lines across the East Bay on March 28th, amounting to an 8 percent overall reduction. Despite the broad cuts, the agency is pitching the change as one that will spare its most transit-dependent riders. By […]

Streetsblog SF to Receive the SFBC’s ‘Golden Wheel Award’

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 15, 2010 | 6 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has announced that Streetsblog San Francisco and SFBC volunteer Michael Helquist are the recipients of this year’s Golden Wheel Awards, which they will bestow during their annual gala in April. Last year’s winners were the organizers of San Francisco’s popular Sunday Streets events. In the announcement, the SFBC said Streetsblog […]

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 […]

The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street

By Matthew Roth | Mar 11, 2010 | 21 Comments

Trial traffic diversions on Market Street. Photo: sfbike With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put […]

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