Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Safety

Push Continues in City Hall for Safer Bike Infrastructure

By Roger Rudick | | No Comments
Note the ‘call to action’ at the end of this post. Yesterday afternoon, some 30 officials, police officers, advocates, and other members of the public joined the regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at City Hall to discuss how to get protected bike lanes installed […]

South Bay Cities Build Region’s First Separated Bike Lanes

By Andrew Boone | | 8 Comments
New on-street bike lanes separated from auto traffic are nearing completion in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and a handful of neighboring cities have plans to install them too. Separated bike infrastructure gained traction among local planners after Caltrans approved Class IV Separated Bikeway design standards [PDF] in December 2015. The first protected intersections were built […]

SPUR Talk: What About the Families?

By Roger Rudick | | 105 Comments
How can San Francisco keep families from moving away? That was the central question of a panel discussion this afternoon hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). The panel included Susan Exline of the San Francisco Planning Department, Daniel Parolek, architect with Opticos Design, and San Francisco’s District Seven […]

SoMa to Get SF’s First Protected Intersection…in One Direction at Least

By Roger Rudick | | 60 Comments
SFMTA announced late last week that San Francisco will soon break ground on the first protected intersection in San Francisco. From the agency’s web article: A new type of safer intersection design for San Francisco breaks ground this week: The city’s first “protected intersection” treatment is coming to 9th and Division streets. Protected intersections use a […]

Eyes on the Street: Guerrero Park Update

By Roger Rudick | | 2 Comments
Back in 2009, Streetsblog informed readers about neighborhood efforts to calm traffic at San Jose Avenue at Guerrero and 28th Streets. There’s little that aligns more closely with the mission of Streetsblog than the creation of small inviting parks that can transform a dangerous traffic sewer into an enlivened public asset. And, thanks to the […]
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