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Chronicle Op-Ed: Make Polk Street More Like Paris, Less Like Detroit

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 9, 2013 | 42 Comments

We’ve gotta spotlight this op-ed that appeared in today’s edition of the SF Chronicle calling upon the SFMTA and city leaders to make Polk Street more like “a Paris street, where people saunter and stay for hours, not just one errand.” “For that to happen, it has to be engineered away from the Detroit model […]

On Bay Area News Stands: The Lack of Accountability for Drivers Who Kill

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 30, 2013 | 19 Comments

Featured on the front page of today’s San Francisco Chronicle and ABC 7 is an epic exposé on the lack of legal accountability for drivers who kill pedestrians in the Bay Area. The piece is by Zusha Elinson, a journalist at the Center for Investigative Reporting. Streetsblog readers are all too familiar with the fact that drivers […]

Why Matier & Ross Got It Wrong in Their Jab at East Bay BRT

By David Edmondson | Apr 3, 2013 | 8 Comments

Cross-posted from Vibrant Bay Area, a new collaborative blog from urbanist writers around the Bay Area. AC Transit’s proposed East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line got a cheap kick in the gut yesterday from the Chronicle’s Matier & Ross. The duo took aim at the cost of BRT, a “jaw-dropping $18.7 million per mile,” but didn’t […]

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The Refreshing Pedestrian Scenes of “Silver Linings Playbook”

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 4, 2013 | No Comments

I finally got around to seeing the Oscar-nominated “Silver Linings Playbook,” and it’s a charming film. It certainly deserves to be right up there with the top pictures of 2012. And as the film unspooled, I got a pleasant surprise: Neither of the main characters owns (or drives) a car. Except for the opening scenes […]

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Some Tips to Help SF Weekly Get Over the Free Parking Obsession

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 8, 2013 | 29 Comments

The folks at SF Weekly seem really upset about the end of free car parking on Sundays. The shock is apparently severe enough that Erin Sherbert put up a post yesterday directing readers to sign the petition demanding an absolute end to the SF Municipal Transportation Agency’s expansion of parking meters, launched by the Eastern Neighborhoods […]

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