Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

Proving to Caltrans That El Camino Real Can Be a Safer Street

By Andrew Boone | Oct 17, 2013 | 7 Comments

Despite pockets of new development, El Camino Real remains a dangerous, car-oriented urban highway along most of the San Francisco Peninsula. If it can ever transform into a great street, it will have to become safer for walking and biking. And while enhancing walkability is a key goal of the Grand Boulevard Initiative — the long-term planning […]

SFCTA Considers Removing Freeway Ramps at Balboa Park Station

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

Balboa Park may be a major transit hub for BART and Muni, but it’s hard to tell as you approach the station, which is surrounded by dangerous roads swarming with car traffic moving to and from six nearby freeway ramps. The design of the area around the station — not to mention the 24,000 people […]

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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 […]

We Used to Expect Streets to Be as Safe as We Do Holly Park

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 12, 2013 | 10 Comments

Rarely does the death of someone struck by a motorist garner as much public outrage as the incident in Holly Park last week. Media around the world has covered the death of Christine Svanemyr, who was lying in the grass with her infant daughter and dog when she was run over by Thomas Burnoski, a […]

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 […]

Caltrans Installs Small Road Diet on Outer San Jose Where Man Was Killed

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

Caltrans has converted two general traffic lanes to bike lanes and a center turn lane on a deadly stretch of San Jose Avenue just south of highway 280, where 69-year-old Hector Arana was killed by a driver while crossing the street in March. Instead of six speed-inducing through lanes, the five-block stretch of San Jose […]

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