Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

SFPD Arrests Two Drivers After Holiday Spate of Pedestrian Deaths

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 2, 2014 | 24 Comments

In what could be a departure from the SF Police Department’s usual failure to penalize reckless driving, officers have arrested two of the five motorists who have killed people on San Francisco streets since December 20. In the last hours of 2013, the year’s pedestrian death toll increased to 20. Both of the crashes in which […]

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With WalkFirst, SF Takes a Data-Driven Approach to Pedestrian Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 19, 2013 | 2 Comments

The city recently launched the WalkFirst program to lay a data-driven, participatory foundation for the effort to attain the main goal of its Pedestrian Strategy — cutting pedestrian injuries in half by 2021. In the coming months, staff from the SFMTA, the Planning Department, the Controller’s Office, and the Department of Public Health will field public input […]

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Inner Sunset Organizers Take a Serious Look at Irving Street Public Plaza

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 10, 2013 | 86 Comments

The vision for a block-long pedestrian plaza on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset is taking the next step, with the launch of a community-based study. Dubbed “Irving Commons,” the plaza idea was warmly received by neighbors when it was presented two years ago at Inner Sunset Sundays, a street party organized four times per […]

Artist Kurt Dalen, 30, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver on Valencia Near Duboce

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Kurt Dalen, a 30-year-old Mission District artist, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Valencia Street south of Duboce Avenue at about 2:45 a.m. last Thursday. The SF Chronicle, describing Dalen as “a painter whose work has been heavily influenced by the Mission’s street culture,” reported Friday: He was struck near Clinton Park, an alleyway, by […]

Packed Meeting About Future of Oakland’s Latham Square Shut Down Early

By Laura McCamy | Nov 22, 2013 | 18 Comments

After public pressure, the City of Oakland held a second community meeting Wednesday about the design of the Latham Square pilot plaza, where a lane of car traffic was reinstated prematurely at the behest of Planning and Building Director Rachel Flynn. Despite a standing room-only crowd of attendees showing up to weigh in, the meeting was […]

SF’s First Painted Sidewalk Extensions Come to Sixth Street

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 12, 2013 | 22 Comments

A deadly stretch of Sixth Street received the city’s first painted sidewalk extensions last week, created using low-cost, temporary materials to help make pedestrians more visible. The SFMTA implemented the pilot project between Market and Harrison Streets — four blocks dense with residential hotels and shops — to help curb injuries while the agency develops plans […]

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