Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Mayor Newsom

For a City of Panhandles! Copenhagenize it!

By Chris Carlsson | May 19, 2009 | 14 Comments

Mona Caron’s rendition of 24th and Folsom after we’ve made a few basic changes. (Thanks to Mona Caron for this image, originally published in the Bay Guardian in 2006.) We’ve been waiting for years now to see some physical changes to accommodate the huge increase in daily bicycling. We did get an odd set of […]

Supervisor Avalos, Advocates Call for More Equitable Muni Budget

By Bryan Goebel | May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

Supervisor John Avalos at Transit Justice rally. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Supervisor John Avalos, leading the charge for a Muni budget that is more equitably balanced between drivers and transit riders, was joined Monday by a broad coalition of advocates, including groups representing seniors and youth, in a rally designed to pressure the MTA into […]

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 […]

Newsom Should Charge Drivers More for Parking Before Cutting Muni

By Jason Henderson | May 8, 2009 | 20 Comments

Flickr photo:sawdevcin Transportation accounts for one third of US greenhouse gas emissions and is the fastest growing source of emissions globally. Most of this comes from automobiles, and technical fixes like biofuels or hybrid/electric cars will not get us to the 80 percent reductions in CO2 that we must attain to stabilize the climate. We […]

Sunday Streets Brings Out Throngs of People to Enjoy Car-Free Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 27, 2009 | No Comments

Non-human modes of transportation welcome, too. Photo: SFBike Tens of thousands of people came out to enjoy Sunday Streets yesterday, filling the Embarcadero with walking, cycling, skating and general merriment. The mainstream media couldn’t help but cough up superlatives to describe the car-free event, underscoring its importance to the local economy, to encouraging fitness and […]

Great Streets Project Hires Director, Hits the Streets Running

By Matthew Roth | Apr 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

Flickr photo: JaimeAndreu Yesterday marked an important day for livable streets in San Francisco. In coordination with the Castro Street CBD, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, and the Mayor’s Office of Greening, the nascent Great Streets Project (GSP) co-hosted a roundtable discussion about how to start and manage successful public spaces, with particular emphasis on the proposed […]

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