Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

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Drivers Run Sloat Ped Beacon: Bad Design, Inept Driving, or Teething Period?

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 27, 2013 | 21 Comments

A new button-activated pedestrian beacon was installed on Sloat Boulevard and Forest View Drive this week as a part of a package of safety improvements, along with three bulb-outs and a more visible crosswalk. It’s the spot where 17-year-old Hanren Chang was killed on her birthday in March by a drunk driver as she was crossing […]

Marina Boat Owners Riled by Proposal to Take Cars Off Bike/Ped Path

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 27, 2013 | 72 Comments

Along Marina Boulevard there’s a bicycle and pedestrian path where visitors and residents can stroll along the bay without having to worry about cars — until they get to the stretch between Scott and Baker Streets, where drivers are allowed to enter the path to access 51 parking spaces. It’s the only part of the […]

New Options Arise for Greener, Calmer Streets on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 26, 2013 | 18 Comments

Plans to create calmer, greener streets on the Wiggle came into clearer focus Tuesday after the SFMTA presented more refined proposals for raised crosswalks and intersections, bulb-outs with greenery, traffic circles, traffic diverters, and other safety improvements. The proposed treatments [PDF] are aimed at improving stormwater drainage while also calming motor and bicycle traffic. One […]

SFFD Tries to Quietly Nix Supe Wiener’s Ped Safety Reform in Fire Code

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 11, 2013 | 14 Comments

The SF Fire Department tried to delete an amendment to the fire code that would allow city agencies greater flexibility in widening sidewalks to improve pedestrian safety, according to Supervisor Scott Wiener, who championed the measure. The measure was approved unanimously by the Board of Supervisors and signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee this […]

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Oakland’s Latham Square: Plaza to the People

By Laura McCamy | Sep 5, 2013 | 4 Comments

Just two weeks after Oakland’s Latham Square opened on August 16, office workers could be seen arriving in ones and twos at lunchtime. A clutch of high schoolers from the nearby Oakland School For the Arts zoomed in on skateboards and sat together on a big bench in the shade, looking cool and disaffected. The park, which made […]

Irving Merchants Riled by Proposal to Turn 12 Parking Spots Into Public Space

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 37 Comments

Once again, a merchant group is contesting a proposal that would improve walking and public space on a San Francisco street. At a community meeting on plans to add greening and sidewalk corner extensions on central Irving Street last week, merchants balked at the idea of removing 10 to 12 parking spaces to extend eight […]

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