Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Mayor Newsom

Eyes on the Street: Powell Street Parking Lane Becomes Trial Sidewalk

By Matthew Roth | Dec 14, 2009 | 16 Comments

Powell Street parking lane closed to cars for increased pedestrian space. Photos: Matthew Roth San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office this weekend experimented with the temporary removal of a handful of parking spaces on Powell Street between Ellis and Geary Streets to give holiday shoppers in and around Union Square more space to navigate the […]

SF Plans to Act Quickly on Bike Projects When Injunction is Lifted

By Matthew Roth | Oct 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

The SFMTA is already surveying locations where bike racks have been requested and plans to add 750 racks as soon as the injunction is lifted. Photo: Dave Snyder. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Chief Nat Ford have made repeated promises that they will act swiftly to build out large segments of the city’s […]

Muni-Free Market Street: Serious Proposal or Mere Musing?

By Michael Rhodes | Oct 27, 2009 | 13 Comments

The front page of today’s San Francisco Examiner. Are Muni’s days on Market Street numbered? That’s the gist of the front-page headline in the SF Examiner today, which suggests that Mayor Gavin Newsom has a bold plan to move all bus lines and the F-line historic streetcars onto side streets to make way for a […]

California Cities Lead Nation in Reducing Emissions from Streetlights

By Matthew Roth | Oct 15, 2009 | 3 Comments

PG&E workers installing an LED streetlight. Photo: PG&E Streetlights are an enormous part of any city’s energy consumption and cities that wish to cut down on their emissions and their energy bills are getting in line to convert their older street lamps to LED technology. According to Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) and Department of Energy […]

Newsom Parking Meter Story is Not a ‘False Controversy’

By Matthew Roth | Oct 5, 2009 | 5 Comments

Photo:Michael Ronquillo The kerfuffle continues to intensify over the draft study the MTA recently completed on extending parking meter hours in commercial districts around the city, a study which, as we first reported last Friday, the Mayor doesn’t want MTA Chief Nat Ford to broadcast too loudly. When Newsom was asked about our story […]

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