Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Livable Streets

Mission Neighbors Upset Over Proposed Pedestrian Fence

By Matthew Roth | Mar 11, 2009 | 31 Comments

A group of skaters stopped on the Potrero Avenue median half-way between 26th and Cesar Chavez Some community members in the Mission are upset that the MTA has proposed building a fence along a median on Potrero Avenue between Cesar Chavez and 25th Street to prevent jaywalking. Owing to the success of the recently […]

Sunday Streets Will Expand to Six Days This Year

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Taking another page from the international movement spawned by Bogotá’s wildly successful Ciclovia, and just two days after Seattle announced its Summer Streets initiative, the official word is out: San Francisco’s Sunday Streets campaign is proposing expanding to six Sundays this year, or one a month for six months, beginning April 26th. This time around, […]

The Nearly Extinct Bipedus Norteamericanus Makes a Comeback

By Matthew Roth | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Anthropologists and transit advocates have long bemoaned the rise of The Sacred Rac, its subsequent worship by the majority of the people of the Asu tribe, and the attendant demise of bipedus norteamericanus, or the common pedestrian. But new evidence appears every day that the once-endangered pedestrian may be seeing a resurgence in urban habitats […]

Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free

By Matthew Roth | Feb 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bay Area’s public transportation circulatory system. Click for larger view Though David Brooks might argue in his New York Times column that Americans want to live in small towns and suburban dreamscapes, the fact is more and more of us live in metropolitan areas, and discussions about what we want should have to do […]

San Francisco Should Take Cues from New York and Just Try It!

By Matthew Roth | Feb 26, 2009 | 19 Comments

The vision for closing Broadway in Times Square, which will happen by May Urban space advocates the world over use best practice examples from other cities to raise the bar on policy and praxis in their own cities. For years in New York, Transportation Alternatives and the NYC Streets Renaissance Campaign invoked the phrase "Lessons […]

Planning Department Unveils San Francisco’s First Pedestrian Priority Street

By Matthew Roth | Feb 18, 2009 | 8 Comments

The proposed design for a single-surface pedestrian priority Jefferson Street The City Design Group at the Planning Department has released its proposal for transforming Jefferson Street at Fisherman’s Wharf into a single-surface pedestrian priority street, the first of its size in San Francisco. Based on shared space or woonerfs, the plan calls for removing traditional […]

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