Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Eyes on the Street: Market Street Bike Lane Puts the Squeeze on Cyclists

By Joshua Hart | Feb 24, 2010 | 27 Comments

The bike lane on Market at 10th St. was already narrow before the installation of safe-hit posts. Photos by Josh Hart. Cyclists traveling inbound on Market Street are being squeezed into an unnecessarily narrow bike lane as a result of safe-hit posts installed to enforce the new required right turn at 10th Street. The posts, […]

Fun Facts About the Sad State of Parking Policy

By Noah Kazis | Feb 24, 2010 | 2 Comments

Surface parking stretches halfway to the horizon in the heart of downtown Wichita, Kansas. Image: Wichita Walkshop via Flickr. If you haven’t checked out the ITDP parking report we covered yesterday, it’s a highly readable piece of research, walking you through parking policy’s checkered past and potentially brighter future. In addition to describing six cases […]

Want to Foster Walking, Biking and Transit? You Need Good Parking Policy

By Ben Fried | Feb 23, 2010 | 1 Comment

The high-water mark for American parking policy came in the early 1970s, when cities including New York, Boston, and Portland set limits on off-street parking in their downtowns. They were compelled to do so by lawsuits brought under the Clean Air Act, which used the lever of parking policy to curb traffic and reduce pollution […]

Dufty Still Deliberating as Garage Legislation Vote Looms

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

Preparing for a new garage addition. Photo: Michael Rhodes Supervisor Bevan Dufty says he is still considering how he will vote tomorrow on legislation that would limit new garages in existing buildings in Chinatown, North Beach, and Telegraph Hill and eliminate minimum parking requirements in those neighborhoods. Advocates are urging him to support the measure, […]

SF’s Proposal to Reduce Blight Will Create a Tenuous Balance

By Matthew Roth | Feb 22, 2010 | No Comments

Artist’s rendering of 201 Folsom Street, a project advocates and community leaders oppose as a recipient of a Green Development Agreement. Image: Heller-Manus Architects. Among several initiatives San Francisco has developed to put an aesthetically pleasing face on the economic downturn, such as Art in Storefronts, which brightens shuttered retail spaces with murals, a new […]

SFBC Director Leah Shahum to Write for Streetsblog from Amsterdam

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

By now, you’ve probably heard that SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum is taking an eight-month sabbatical to one of the world’s great cycling cities, Amsterdam. Shahum will be missed by many during her absence, but I’m excited to announce today that she’ll be chronicling her experiences and thoughts from Amsterdam for Streetsblog San Francisco. "I’m […]

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