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This Pavement Condition Index Map of San Francisco is Amazing!

By Matthew Roth | Aug 20, 2010 | 11 Comments

Click image to enlarge SF’s Pavement Condition Index map. Go to their website to use the fully interactive map feature. The incredible design and data teams at SimpleGeo and Stamen, known among other things for Polymaps and Cabspotting, recently teamed up to tackle a data set only the wonkiest of us could love: San Francisco’s […]

Better Market Street Project Announces Citizen Advisory Committee

By Matthew Roth | Aug 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

Mayor Newsom and Blick’s Edward Ogorzaly. Photo: Mayor’s Press Office. On the same day San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced yet another intervention along central Market Street aimed at rejuvenating the beleaguered section between 5th and Van Ness, the Department of Public Works (DPW) announced it was convening a citizens advisory committee (CAC) to help […]

San Francisco Weighs Benefits of Various Masonic Street Upgrades

By Matt Baume | Aug 11, 2010 | 16 Comments

At the city’s second community meeting to discuss Masonic Avenue streetscape improvements, attendees debated options for redesigning the street from its current configuration into what could be one a model complete street. There was consensus among the roughly 70 community members in attendance that the thoroughfare from Geary Boulevard to Fell Street needs significant work, […]

An Interview with DPW Director Ed Reiskin

By Elizabeth Sullivan | Jul 9, 2010 | 2 Comments

Photo: SFBC This interview originally appeared on the SFBC’s blog. San Francisco is experimenting with a number of innovative ideas to help create more public space to hang out and enjoy the city. New parklets and street plazas are sprouting on streets around the city, welcomed by local businesses and neighbors. The process of thinking […]

San Francisco Department of Public Works Unveils New Website

By Matthew Roth | May 25, 2010 | No Comments

Of the many agencies in a city, a department of public works (DPW) isn’t usually the flashiest or most interesting. In San Francisco, however, under the leadership of Ed Reiskin, the DPW has taken the lead on a number of high profile projects like Pavement to Parks plazas and parklets and the Market Street trials, […]

Eyes on the Street: Valencia Gets Trees and Decorative Streetlights

By Matthew Roth | Apr 16, 2010 | 9 Comments

New trees and new roadway scale lighting. Photos: Matthew Roth Now that the Valencia Street sidewalk reconstruction between 15th Street and 19th Street has given us sparkly new pedestrian space, the Department of Public Works (DPW) has begun putting on decorative touches. The DPW has planted two types of trees as well as pedestrian and […]

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