Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car Culture

Free Parking Forever: Motorhead Group Wants to “Restore Balance” in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 24, 2014 | 53 Comments

The vast majority of San Francisco’s street space is devoted primarily to moving and storing cars, and most of that curbside parking for private automobiles is given away for free. Most of the city’s street infrastructure is not paid for by fees related to driving, so it is disproportionately bankrolled by those who don’t drive, […]

Suburbs Are Out, Cities Are In — Now What?

By Charles Komanoff | Apr 18, 2014 | No Comments

Today’s Times devotes two pieces to the “suburbs are out, cities are in” phenomenon that has taken root in much of the country over the past few decades — the great inversion, urbanologist Alan Ehrenhalt has dubbed this reversal of the suburbanization wave that swept through the U.S. in the last century. Though both pieces […]

Chevy: What Better Way to Explore the Divisadero “Microhood” Than by Car?

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 11, 2014 | 23 Comments

The marketers at Chevy totally have this urban millennial thing nailed down. The car manufacturer sponsored this promotional video for a Divisadero Microhood Art Walk held last week, along with the website The Bold Italic. In this virtual tour of the microhood, local business owner Erin Fong gets into one of Chevy’s electric Volts, driving an […]

The New “CityTarget” at Geary and Masonic: Driving Is Encouraged

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 10, 2013 | 154 Comments

Do Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue need more car traffic? The marketers of the newly-opened “CityTarget” store seem to think so. The mailers announcing the opening of the supposedly urban-style store (clearly, it’s more like the downtown Metreon store than the suburban, parking-locked store in Serramonte) advertise the fact that it offers free parking — […]

Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 8, 2013 | 93 Comments

When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]

Posted on Masonic: Hilarious Send-Up of Cars-First Vitriol

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 19, 2013 | 34 Comments

Along Masonic Avenue this weekend, an anonymous safe streets advocate found a creative way to call out the absurd behavior of neighbors who showed up way too late in the game to oppose a redesign of the street in a bid to save car parking. The satirical flyers, reported today by Uppercasing, pretty much sum […]

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