Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Car-Free Streets

Come Out to SF’s Street Food Festival Tomorrow

By Matthew Roth | Aug 21, 2009 | 3 Comments

If you’re looking for a good way to enjoy the streets tomorrow in the Mission, head over to the Street Food Festival on Folsom Street between 25th and 26th. The street will be closed all day for a block party to "bring together micro-entrepreneurs, informal food vendors and renowned chefs to celebrate great street food, […]

“Penguins to Penguins” Sunday Streets Kicks Off This Weekend

By Matthew Roth | Aug 7, 2009 | 10 Comments

Now imagine riding on that road. Flickr photo: J.B. Davis The next two Sunday Streets are moving from the heart of the busy Mission to two of San Francisco’s more picturesque natural locales as it winds through Golden Gate Park to the Great Highway along Ocean Beach. This Sunday, August 9th and again on Sunday, […]

Demand for Trial Plazas Increases as Lower Potrero Design is Revealed

By Matthew Roth | Aug 4, 2009 | 3 Comments

Conceptual rendering of Lower Potrero trial plaza at 16th Street and 8th Street. View from 16th Street, Axis Cafe on right, Wolfe Cafe on left, under billboard. Image: Rebar Art Collective. When the 17th Street and Castro Street trial Pavement to Parks plaza was implemented in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom said at the press […]

Poof! San Francisco’s Mason Street Has Become a Temporary Park

By Matthew Roth | Aug 3, 2009 | 10 Comments

Cross sections of tree stumps for seating on Mason Street. Photo: SurfaceWork A coalition of community volunteers, pro-bono landscape architects and personnel from several city agencies this weekend swooped in to North Beach to transform the roadway of Mason Street between Columbus Avenue and Lombard Street into a temporary park in conjunction with the two-month […]

Wade Crowfoot Leaves Mayor’s Office for EDF

By Matthew Roth | Jul 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: Bryan Goebel Wade Crowfoot, Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Director of Climate Change Initiatives, quietly transitioned out of his role in city government last Friday to become the West Coast Legislative and Political Director at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a new post created just for him. His portfolio will be primarily climate, water safety, and […]

Streetfilms: Carmaggeddon Averted as NYC’s Broadway Comes to Life

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

When New York City opened up new pedestrian zones in the heart of Midtown this summer, naysayers predicted a traffic nightmare. Nearly two months later, we’re still waiting for the much-feared Carmaggedon. In this video, Streetsblog publisher Mark Gorton takes us on a tour of Broadway’s car-free squares and boulevard-style blocks, where conditions have improved […]

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