Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

San Mateo County Slow to Improve Conditions for Bicyclists and Pedestrians

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 21, 2011 | 14 Comments

The wheels are turning slowly in the movement to improve biking and walking conditions in San Mateo County as a lack of cohesive political will leaves little traction for any real changes. A new plan drafted by the Peninsula’s twenty sprawling cities is bringing some overdue attention to the need for safer streets, but critics say […]

Church and Duboce Project to Revamp Major Transit and Bike Corridor

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 10, 2011 | 55 Comments

The thousands of daily travelers converging at the crowded Church and Duboce transit and bicycle junction can look forward to a host of streetscape improvements to make it safer and more inviting in the next couple of years. The Duboce Muni portal, converted from a street-level railway decades ago, has remained one of the city’s hairiest junctures […]

Task Force Begins Meeting to Develop Pedestrian Action Plan

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 10, 2011 | 8 Comments

A Pedestrian Safety Task Force charged with coordinating and implementing actions to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities in San Francisco met for the first time Tuesday, bringing together a large group of representatives from different city departments who rarely sit down at the same table to talk about pedestrian safety. “I do think that having […]

Inner Sunset Neighbors Voice Overwhelming Support for Proposed Parklet

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 2, 2011 | 21 Comments

The Inner Sunset could see its first parklet on Ninth Avenue in front of Arizmendi Bakery, introducing a new public space to its vibrant restaurant district, after dozens of neighbors and merchants showed up in support of the project at an SF Department of Public Works hearing today. “People are hungry for gathering spaces,” said […]

Laguna Honda Separated Bikeway, Raised Crosswalk Installed on West Side

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 14, 2011 | 30 Comments

The SFMTA installed separation improvements on the Laguna Honda Boulevard bike lanes and added a raised pedestrian crossing on St. Francis Circle last week, tacking on a pair of safety features for vulnerable street users in two western neighborhoods of San Francisco that are notorious for high volume, high-speed car traffic. The bike lanes on Laguna […]

David Chiu: Bike Network Expansion Is Transportation Priority #1

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 11, 2011 | 14 Comments

Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who for the past 24 hours has served as Acting Mayor of San Francisco, said expanding the city’s bike network will be his number one transportation priority in the coming year, along with pedestrian safety and improving Muni’s reliability and performance. “First and foremost, as someone who bikes every […]

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