Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car-Free Streets

Deadline For TransForm’s Car-Free Challenge Nearing

By Matthew Roth | May 26, 2010 | 3 Comments

The deadline to sign up for TransForm’s annual Car-Free Challenge is quickly approaching and the group is hopeful the event will raise awareness about the impact driving has on the climate, particularly in light of the recent oil spill in the Gulf. TransForm’s Marta Lindsey said that numerous participants in the challenge have said the […]

Say What?

By Chris Carlsson | May 24, 2010 | 26 Comments

The vibrations and rumble of cable cars used to occur on many of San Francisco’s streets. We are often attracted to city life for the energy, the boisterousness, the noise. I am a city guy having lived all my life in cities (born in Brooklyn, Chicago until age 10, Oakland until 17, and San Francisco […]

Dreaming of Pedestrian Heaven on San Francisco’s Oldest Street

By Michael Rhodes | May 4, 2010 | 35 Comments

Enjoying a car-free Grant Avenue at Noodle Fest. Photo: Michael Rhodes Could San Francisco’s first and oldest thoroughfare become the city’s first true pedestrianized street? Since the day in 1835 when William Richardson drew the first map of Yerba Buena that included just one street, called "Calle de la fundacion" — Foundation Street, which ran […]

Bay Area Cities Open Streets This Sunday for World Health Day

By Matthew Roth | Apr 7, 2010 | 7 Comments

Numerous Bay Area cities are joining municipalities around the world this Sunday, April 11th, to embrace the health and community benefits of ciclovias — or car-free events that encourage walking, biking and physical activity — as part of the World Health Organization’s 1,000 Cities 1,000 Lives, World Health Day 2010. Like the incredibly popular Sunday […]

Planning and Public Life

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 25, 2010 | 6 Comments

On Linden Alley the "Union Project" held a public fair last year, just one of dozens of ways San Franciscans are taking public roads for uses beyond merely housing private cars. San Franciscans, like residents of most big cities, are in a continuous process of reshaping public spaces. There are pilot programs for new ways […]

Reviewing the Policing of Critical Mass

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 8, 2010 | 19 Comments

Now that the new police chief has announced he is going to "review" department procedures with respect to Critical Mass, I think it might be a good time to "review" the history of the relationship between Critical Mass and the police. I have to emphasize that this relationship has evolved in the context of a […]

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