Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

East Bay Regional Parks Gets $10 Million TIGER Grant for Bike and Ped Trails

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 20, 2010 | 4 Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $600 million dollars in TIGER II grants today and the only project in Northern California to make the cut was the East Bay Regional Park District’s proposal to fill in seven key gaps on the 200-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail system that runs across Alameda and Contra Costa counties. […]

Tonight: Tour Proposed New Public Spaces with Rec & Park

By Matt Baume | Oct 20, 2010 | 6 Comments

Get ready to peek into a possible future for San Francisco parks. This evening and next week, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will lead a tour of four properties being considered for purchase and transformation into parkland. The locations being considered are at 17th and Folsom; Palou and Phelps in the shadow of […]

Testing New Designs for Pedestrian Safety

By Matthew Roth | Sep 13, 2010 | 14 Comments

Traffic calming can take a number of different forms, from speed tables to roundabouts, but CNN recently ran a story about an unconventional new traffic calming pilot in Vancouver, Canada, that has people literally doing double takes. Traffic managers there painted a three dimensional image onto the street that appears to drivers to resemble a […]

Commentary: Clarifying Right-of-Way Confusion in Uncontrolled Crosswalks

By Matthew Ridgway | Aug 24, 2010 | 34 Comments

Flickr photo: Warzau Wynn Editor’s note: Matthew Ridgway is a principal at Fehr and Peers, a transportation design and engineering firm that routinely consults on pedestrian projects throughout the Bay Area. The cardinal rule in street safety is to create conditions that are clear and predictable, so everyone knows what is expected of them and […]

APTA Report Prescribes Public Transport to Improve Public Health

By Noah Kazis | Aug 20, 2010 | No Comments

Transit use is correlated with decreases in the number of traffic crashes. Image: "Evaluating Public Transportation Health Benefits" A new report written by the Victoria Transport Policy Institute’s Todd Litman for the American Public Transit Association [PDF], the trade organization for the nation’s transit agencies, reminds us that one of the most valuable benefits of […]

Advocates Argue San Francisco Must Improve Pedestrian Safety

By Matthew Roth | Aug 19, 2010 | 24 Comments

Photo: Myleen Hollero/Orange Photography. Though San Francisco has been getting a lot of attention recently for its trial pedestrian plazas and "parklet" sidewalk extensions in former parking spaces, which has drawn interest from cities around the country and even spawned a copycat in New York City, the Big Apple has raised the bar considerably on […]

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