Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Quality of Life

What’s Really Dangerous for Kids? Hint: It Has Four Wheels and a Tailpipe

By Sarah Goodyear | May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments

Photo by pawpaw67 via Flickr. When she wrote a column for the New York Sun last year about letting her nine-year-old ride the subway on his own, Lenore Skenazy was pilloried by many as an irresponsible mom. She stuck to her guns, though, and started a blog dedicated to "sane parenting", advocating the idea that […]

Ad Nauseam: What Are You Implying, Chase?

By Matthew Roth | Apr 15, 2009 | 13 Comments

Photo by Matthew Roth Welcome to town Chase. I’m super impressed you have been reading Streetsblog San Francisco and made an ad that reflects some of the knowledge you’ve acquired here. This is obviously a shout out to the car-free community. Might the admen understand the incredible cost savings of ditching the car for a […]

Mayor Newsom, Caltrans Announce Plans to Remove Portions of I-280

By Matthew Roth | Apr 1, 2009 | 9 Comments

A controlled explosion from the filming of the TV series "Trauma," on a closed portion of I-280 Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced one of his most ambitious plans for re-shaping San Francisco, telling reporters at a press conference with Caltrans Director Will Kemption and Caltrain Director Michael Scanlan that the city would move forward with […]

17th Street Closure Will Be First NYC-style Plaza in San Francisco

By Matthew Roth | Mar 25, 2009 | 51 Comments

The future site of a pedestrian plaza at 17th and Market Streets Don’t look now, but NYC DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan’s magic may have rubbed off on DPW Director Ed Reiskin, to San Francisco’s benefit. Reiskin has been leading a multi-agency effort to close a small portion of 17th Street where it meets Market Street […]

Little Brother is Watching

By Matthew Roth | Mar 23, 2009 | 4 Comments

A sample case from SeeClickFix’s San Francisco database The next generation of community-driven reporting of quality-of-life issues–like potholes, graffiti, garbage buildup, or broken street lights–is SeeClickFix, a mapping software that enables users to populate a map with cases that are then forwarded to the responsible city agency. Much like a 311 system, SeeClickFix’s software is […]

San Francisco’s Unbuilt Freeway Network Revisited

By Matthew Roth | Mar 23, 2009 | 10 Comments

Some of San Francisco’s unbuilt freeways Hunter College student and photographer Andrew Lynch recently posted Google Map mashups of the unbuilt freeways that made up many of the master plans in cities around the country in the 1950s and 1960s. San Francisco, New York City, and Boston avoided the worst of automobility, while the map […]

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