Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable Streets

Should I Wear a Helmet Today?

By Aaron Naparstek | May 20, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Naparstek boys riding last year’s Summer Streets event… wearing helmets. Sarah’s "Too Much Emphasis on Safety" post yesterday brings up the question in the headline above. A Canadian Broadcasting TV crew doing a documentary on biking is filming me as I take my two sons to school on our Dutch cargo bike today. While […]

Students in Brooklyn, NY, Paint The Pavement

By Matthew Roth | May 18, 2009 | No Comments

New York City has been following the lead of some of the most livable cities in the world with new best practice trials, though arguably none is more enjoyable than the example in this Streetfilm, where the Department of Transportation has worked with the community to transform a city street by painting it beautiful, bright […]

17th Street Plaza Well Used Its First Weekend

By Matthew Roth | May 18, 2009 | 2 Comments

Cameron Kephart, a participant in the AIDS/Lifecycle benefit ride, pedals for donations in the plaza. Photo: Frank Yeean Chan via 17th Street Plaza on Facebook. Despite concern from some neighborhood residents that the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Castro Street would be overrun with drunk revelers, vagrants, and other unsavory characters, those concerns […]

Can the Board of Supes Still Force a Better MTA Budget?

By Bryan Goebel | May 14, 2009 | 4 Comments

Budget and Finance Committee file photo by Bryan Goebel The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee voted for a second time Wednesday to reject the MTA budget and send it back to the full Board. It followed a narrow vote by the full Board Tuesday to table BOS Prez David Chiu’s original rejection motion, […]

A Livable Street in the Making: 17th Street Ped Plaza Nearly Complete

By Bryan Goebel | May 12, 2009 | 7 Comments

DPW worker painting around an unused track in the plaza. Bollards in the background on the right and left will be filled with gravel and soil and will have plants growing out of them. Photo: Matthew Roth In less than 24 hours, city officials, including Mayor Gavin Newsom, will be standing in a new pedestrian […]

Newsom Speaks Out on MTA Budget; Vote to Reject Hinges on Maxwell

By Bryan Goebel | May 12, 2009 | 12 Comments

Mayor Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom (left) at a ceremony Monday honoring teachers. Newsom spoke to reporters about the MTA budget after the event. On the eve of a possible rejection of the MTA’s budget by the Board of Supervisors over widely unpopular fare hikes and service cuts, Mayor Gavin Newsom told reporters […]

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