Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

Cleaning Up SF’s Car-Littered Sidewalks Will Take More Than Parking Tickets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2013 | 41 Comments

Cars littered on San Francisco’s sidewalks are a painfully common sight. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in outer neighborhoods like the Sunset and Bayview, where, for decades, homeowners with residential garages have paved over their front yards. The pedestrian environment on these streets is left degraded, with swaths of dead space where families and people […]

Planning Dept. Presents Draft Designs for a Ped-Friendly Castro Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2013 | 10 Comments

The city’s effort to make Castro Street more welcoming for pedestrians took a step forward yesterday, when the SF Planning Department presented preliminary design concepts at a packed community meeting. The plan [PDF] would improve the pedestrian realm on the commercial corridor with wider sidewalks, sidewalk seating, pedestrian-scaled lighting, small plazas, and greening, while reclaiming some […]

To Boost Shopping in Chinatown, SF Brings Back Ban on Car Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2013 | 31 Comments

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business. Last year’s week-long trial removal of parking on five blocks of Stockton Street was so popular, in fact, that Mayor Ed Lee announced today that the program would return for another two-week run. The parking removal will make more room for vendors and the influx of […]

Melissa Kitson, 44, Killed in Two-Car Crash in SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 22, 2013 | 26 Comments

Last Friday, two drivers ran over and killed 44-year-old Melissa Kitson of San Lorenzo at 7th and Howard Streets, the second pedestrian fatality in San Francisco this year. According to press accounts, the crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Police say the investigation is ongoing, and there are few details available on how it occurred. Both drivers reportedly stayed […]

D7 Supervisor Norman Yee’s First Order of Business: Pedestrian Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 16, 2013 | 7 Comments

District 7’s new supervisor, Norman Yee, took the earliest opportunity to call for a hearing on pedestrian safety in the neighborhoods he represents, which include West Portal, Parkside, St. Francis Wood, Forest Hill, Ingleside Terrace, Sunnyside, and Park Merced. Pedestrian safety is “an issue that is very personal to me and I care deeply about, […]

Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Despite living in one of the city’s densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco’s most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s. In a BeyondChron article yesterday, editor and Tenderloin Housing […]

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