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“Walk [Your City]” Signs Take the Guesswork Out of Hoofing It in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 10, 2015 | 4 Comments

You may have gotten a kick out of some of the signs posted along Market Street in recent weeks telling people how long it takes to walk to destinations like Yerba Buena Gardens, Civic Center, and even the Pacific Ocean. The signs are the doing of Walk [Your City], a national effort to facilitate what has […]

Supervisors Tang and Yee Propose New Measures to Curb Dangerous Driving

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 11, 2014 | 4 Comments

Supervisors Katy Tang and Norman Yee announced measures on Tuesday they say could help reduce dangerous driving on SF streets, bringing the city closer to Vision Zero. Yee called for a study into whether city-owned vehicles could have “black boxes” to record evidence in the event of a crash, and for banning tour bus drivers […]

Bold Visions for the Embarcadero Emerge at Public Design Workshops

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

Ever since the Embarcadero was uncovered from beneath a freeway more than two decades ago, San Franciscans’ appetite for a more people-friendly waterfront only seems to have grown. At a series of recent public design workshops this month, groups of attendees were asked to put together a display of how they’d re-allocate street space on […]

Three Recent Assaults By Drivers Show Traffic Sewers’ Danger to Bikes, Peds

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 18, 2014 | 93 Comments

There have been three disturbing cases in SF within the last month in which drivers assaulted people walking and biking. Such cases are usually rare, but all of the attacks occurred on streets designed for fast driving. The most recent attack was in the Excelsior on November 11. According to the SFPD Ingleside Station newsletter, a driver was […]

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Stockton Street in Union Square Becomes a Plaza for the Holidays

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 13, 2014 | 39 Comments

Two blocks of Stockton Street in the bustling Union Square shopping district are being converted into a pedestrian plaza for the holidays. The roadway has been occupied by Central Subway construction machinery for a couple of years now, but now crews are taking a break and covering up the site with turf for what’s been […]

Safe Streets Advocates: “Enough is Enough” — Time to End Traffic Violence

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 10, 2014 | 9 Comments

The recent spate of drivers killing or maiming pedestrians has both City Hall leaders and SF agencies running out of excuses for their snail’s-pace implementation of measures that would make city streets safer. At a rally on Friday, a coalition of safe streets advocates chanted, “Enough is enough.” The 28 people killed in crashes on […]

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