Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Market Street

The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street

By Matthew Roth | Mar 11, 2010 | 21 Comments

Trial traffic diversions on Market Street. Photo: sfbike With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put […]

Eyes on the Street: Market Street Bike Lane Puts the Squeeze on Cyclists

By Joshua Hart | Feb 24, 2010 | 27 Comments

The bike lane on Market at 10th St. was already narrow before the installation of safe-hit posts. Photos by Josh Hart. Cyclists traveling inbound on Market Street are being squeezed into an unnecessarily narrow bike lane as a result of safe-hit posts installed to enforce the new required right turn at 10th Street. The posts, […]

Eyes on the Street: The Quickly Fading Market Street Safety Zones

By Matthew Roth | Jan 13, 2010 | 11 Comments

Photos: Matthew Roth Remember the beautiful new Calm the Safety Zone trial that we raved about in late November, with a liberal application of "frappuccino" colored paint to the pavement on Market Street? Yeah, well, now not so much. In only a month and a half, vehicular traffic on Market Street (greatly reduced, mind you, […]

Tweak to Market Street Traffic Diversion Pilot Should Benefit Cyclists, Peds

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

Click to enlarge. Image courtesy SFMTA. Drivers heading east on Market Street will soon be directed to turn off at 10th Street instead of 8th Street, a refinement intended to improve conditions for pedestrians and bicyclists on Market. Mayor Newsom and the MTA announced the change today, two and a half months after the launch […]

First Muni/Bike Crash of the Year on Market Street this Morning

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 7, 2010 | 8 Comments

The scene of the crash at Market and Front. Photo: Michael Rhodes The driver of a 9-San Bruno Muni bus struck a male bicyclist from behind on Market at Front Street at 10:40 this morning. The bicyclist was removed from the intersection in an ambulance with "moderate injuries," according to an officer at the scene. […]

Streetfilms: Making a Better Market Street in San Francisco

By John Hamilton | Dec 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

For decades, planners and transportation specialists have debated how San Francisco’s most important street could be re-visioned to make it work better for transit, pedestrians, cyclists, shoppers, and those living on or near it. Now, as the Better Market Street Project moves forward with trial traffic diversions, the Art in Storefronts project, music and programming […]

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