Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

City Sets Out to Create Safer, Greener Streets on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2013 | 42 Comments

The Wiggle could be transformed into a greener, more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly route in the coming years thanks to a new planning effort launched by the SFMTA and the SF Public Utilities Commission. At an open house community meeting yesterday, planners shopped potential treatments like traffic diverters, traffic circles, bulb-outs, and raised crosswalks that could […]

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Mission’s People-Friendly Block on Bartlett Faces Fire Code, Parking Hurdles

By Aaron Bialick | May 30, 2013 | 29 Comments

One day each week, the block of Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd Streets bustles for a few hours when it’s transformed into the Mission Community Market. On all the other days, however, it mostly serves as a parking lot. The Planning Department and organizers from the Community Market held a packed public meeting yesterday […]

Planning Department Unveils Final Castro Streetscape Design

By Aaron Bialick | May 17, 2013 | 24 Comments

The final plan for wider sidewalks and other pedestrian improvements on Castro Street between Market and 19th Streets was presented at an open house by the Planning Department this week. Overall, the pedestrian environment on Castro will be vastly improved after the skinny sidewalks are widened to as much as 22 feet, and the narrowed traffic […]

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Residents Call for Safer Streets in Speed-Plagued District 7

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 5, 2013 | 10 Comments

District 7, one of San Francisco’s most suburban in character, has seen three of this year’s six pedestrian deaths so far. At a hearing yesterday called by D7 Supervisor Norman Yee as his first order of business after taking office in January, residents called upon city agencies to slow drivers on dangerous high-speed streets that […]

After Death of Hanren Chang, Meager Safety Fixes May Not Come for 2 Years

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 7, 2013 | 51 Comments

Friends and family mourning the death of Hanren Chang, a 17-year-old Lowell High School student who was killed on Sloat Boulevard last Saturday night by driver 29-year-old Kieran Brewer, are calling for safety fixes to prevent future deaths on the excessively-wide speedway. Brewer was arraigned yesterday on felony charges of DUI and felony vehicular manslaughter. […]

Drunk Driver Kills Hanren Chang, 17, on Sloat Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 4, 2013 | 45 Comments

Updated 11:16 p.m. An allegedly drunk driver was arrested for hitting and killing 17-year-old Hanren Chang on Sloat Boulevard near Vale Avenue on Saturday night. According to CBS 5, 29-year-old Keiran Brewer was driving westbound on Sloat at about 11:20 p.m. when he hit Chang, who was crossing the street in the northbound direction, and dragged […]

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