Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

Does Your Commute Suck? Tell Us About It.

By Sarah Goodyear | May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

This morning our friends over at Transportation for America are launching a new site called My Commute Sucks, designed to give people around the country a place to vent their frustration over the nation’s overburdened and inefficient transportation systems. Commuters can share their tales of commuting woe, upload photos and videos, and also take action […]

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 […]

Celebrating San Francisco With a Sunday Streets Bicycle Ride

By Matthew Roth | May 11, 2009 | 6 Comments

Biker baby looking cool. Photo: Matthew Roth The second of six Sunday Streets was a great success as thousands of people got out on a glorious sunny day to pedal, blade, run, skate, and stroll along the waterfront from AT&T park down to India Basin and the Bayview Opera House. By coincidence, my father was […]

Come Celebrate Mothers Day This Sunday in the Bayview

By Matthew Roth | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

We hope you’re all getting ready for the second of six Sunday Streets this Sunday in the Bayview from 10 am – 2 pm. The SFBC edited together this lovely video from last year’s Sunday Streets in the Bayview to whet your appetite for good times. See you on your bikes (or blades or boards […]

Fear Growing Senator Boxer Won’t Deliver Progressive Transportation Act

By Matthew Roth | May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments

The "High Five" in Dallas, via jmmadrid on Flickr California Senator Barbara Boxer will be at the center of a battle over whether or not the reauthorization of the transportation bill will address the global warming impacts of transportation, given her Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee is responsible for writing much of the […]

What’s Really Dangerous for Kids? Hint: It Has Four Wheels and a Tailpipe

By Sarah Goodyear | May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo by pawpaw67 via Flickr. When she wrote a column for the New York Sun last year about letting her nine-year-old ride the subway on his own, Lenore Skenazy was pilloried by many as an irresponsible mom. She stuck to her guns, though, and started a blog dedicated to "sane parenting", advocating the idea that […]

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