Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

New York City’s Broadway Pedestrian Zone to Become Permanent

By Ben Fried | Feb 11, 2010 | 3 Comments

Hopefully you don’t seethe too much about how many parsecs ahead of us New York City is in reclaiming space for people from cars, but we thought we’d share this momentous news from Streetsblog NY. Looks like Mayor Bloomberg has made a complete one-eighty from his position on traffic just a few years ago. The […]

First Lady Launches Childhood Obesity Push With Nod to Biking & Walking

By Elana Schor | Feb 9, 2010 | 1 Comment

First Lady Michelle Obama took to the mikes this afternoon to kick off a national campaign to combat childhood obesity, emphasizing new initiatives to promote biking and walking alongside a strong focus on healthier food options in schools. The first lady visited "Sesame Street" last fall as part of her push to fight childhood obesity. […]

A Bike-Ped State of the Union: 9.6% of Trips, 1.2% of Federal Funding

By Elana Schor | Jan 28, 2010 | 4 Comments

With the nation still digesting the State of the Union address, the Alliance for Biking & Walking picked an auspicious day to release their biennial Benchmarking report on America’s bike-ped behavior. The group’s bottom-line conclusion: federal transportation funding continues to disproportionately shortchange travelers powered by their own two feet. (Chart: Alliance for Biking & Walking) […]

Bridge the Gap!

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 27, 2010 | 9 Comments

Photo: Matthew Roth As I climbed the steps out of the Lake Merritt BART station this morning I heard loud chanting. "Wow," I thought, "those bicyclists have really pulled out the troops!" But the demonstrators that greeted me across 8th Street in Oakland were pile drivers, iron workers, carpenters and other trades workers, chanting "Jobs […]

Cesar Chavez Street Redesign a Test Case For Better Agency Coordination

By Matthew Roth | Jan 20, 2010 | 9 Comments

Concept for Mission and Cesar Chavez intersection redesign. Image: Planning Department It appears 2010 is the year the stewards of San Francisco’s streets have marked to figure out how to cooperate with each other to design and build a better realm. While the much touted Better Streets Plan synthesizes best practice principles and standards for […]

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, […]

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