Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable Streets

Happy Belated Transportation Freedom Day, San Francisco!

By Matthew Roth | Mar 31, 2009 | No Comments

I’m sorry I’m late. You know how it is, if it’s not in the Facebook calendar, I’m pretty much worthless at remembering. Similar to the premise behind Tax Freedom Day, on March 1st, the San Francisco Bay Area celebrated (did it?) Transportation Freedom Day, the day when an average household has worked enough to […]

Transforming NYC Streets: A Conversation with Janette Sadik-Khan

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 27, 2009 | No Comments

With San Francisco about to embark on its first pilot street closure, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit this conversation with the Open Planning Project’s Executive Director, Mark Gorton, and New York City’s Commissioner of the Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan, who has taken on the challenge of transforming NYC streets in a series of groundbreaking pilot projects. As […]

Little Brother is Watching

By Matthew Roth | Mar 23, 2009 | 4 Comments

A sample case from SeeClickFix’s San Francisco database The next generation of community-driven reporting of quality-of-life issues–like potholes, graffiti, garbage buildup, or broken street lights–is SeeClickFix, a mapping software that enables users to populate a map with cases that are then forwarded to the responsible city agency. Much like a 311 system, SeeClickFix’s software is […]

Eyes on the Street: A Curb Cut We Can Believe In

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 18, 2009 | 6 Comments

Taylor Street at Sutter. If you’ve pedaled or walked Sutter Street lately, or happen to live on Sutter like me, you’ve probably noticed the curb ramps and streets being torn up. It’s all part of DPW’s $1.2 million Sansome and Taylor Street Pavement Renovation Project, which began in early February. According to the DPW’s Christine […]

DOT and HUD: Transportation and Land-Use Planning Should Prioritize TOD

By Matthew Roth | Mar 18, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sacramento sprawl swallowing farm land It’s a good day to talk about the costs of car ownership on individuals and families and the need to integrate transportation and land use planning regionally. The New York Times Wheels blog today has posted a piece that tries to quantify the costs of car ownership and it is […]

Walk Score Updates Transit Travel Map for Bay Area

By Matthew Roth | Mar 12, 2009 | 6 Comments

As we reported a couple weeks ago, Walk Score was developing a new transit twist to their website, which is now in beta here. The transit shed map seen above utilizes Google Transit Feed Specification schedule data from the MTA, Caltrain, and BART to produce the travel information (hint: zoom in to pinpoint your location […]

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