Recent Streetsblog SF posts about DPW

Students in Brooklyn, NY, Paint The Pavement

By Matthew Roth | May 18, 2009 | No Comments

New York City has been following the lead of some of the most livable cities in the world with new best practice trials, though arguably none is more enjoyable than the example in this Streetfilm, where the Department of Transportation has worked with the community to transform a city street by painting it beautiful, bright […]

Mayor Newsom Unveils SF’s First Pavement to Parks Plaza

By Matthew Roth | May 13, 2009 | 74 Comments

Supervisor Dufty and Mayor Newsom at the 17th St. plaza dedication cerimony, via Jamison on Flickr Standing before a crowd of more than 100 people, many of them city staff who had worked to realize the transformation of an underutilized street into a "Pavement to Parks" pedestrian refuge, Mayor Gavin Newsom dedicated the first of […]

Eyes on the Street: It’s Beginning to Look Like… a Livable Street!

By Bryan Goebel | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo by Nick Perry. New sign at the corner of 17th Street and Noe. Photos by Bryan Goebel. A portion of 17th Street in the Castro is being closed to cars at Market this weekend, marking the beginning of San Francisco’s first trial street closure. The two DPT workers installing the new signs late this […]

Eyes On The Street: Potrero Median Fence Is Partially Built

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

Photos by Matthew Roth A five-foot tall median fence that some advocates fear will actually make the area more dangerous for pedestrians is now being installed on Potrero Avenue between 25th Street and Cesar Chavez. As my colleague Matthew Roth has reported, DPW and MTA are erecting the fence to to prevent people from making […]

Eyes on the Street: When Repaving Becomes a Hazard

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 7, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photos by Bryan Goebel If you’ve pedaled along Howard Street in SoMa lately, you’ve no doubt noticed the shoddy paving between 6th and 8th Streets. A DPW contractor repaved the street as part of a sewer main replacement project but in several areas left a two inch shelf in the middle of the bike lane, […]

News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

The trial plaza at Madison Square When we wrote about the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Market Street that DPW expects to start this May, the story generated numerous doubts about how the city would create a successful public space out of a busy street abutting a gas station. As commenter Josh said, […]

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