Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Eyes on the Street: A Traffic Circle Sprouts Up in the Richmond

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 22, 2013 | 26 Comments

A new traffic circle has cropped up at 23rd and Anza Street in the Richmond District as part of traffic calming measures being implemented by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency. As KRON 4’s Stanley Roberts showed in his “People Behaving Badly” segment yesterday, some drivers are still getting used to the circle, since the treatment […]

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 […]

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Neighbors Welcome a Calmer, Greener Bryant Street Near Cesar Chavez

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 15, 2013 | 8 Comments

Residents are enjoying a more livable outer Bryant Street since the city implemented a road diet last month, reducing four traffic lanes to two (plus left-turn bays at some intersections) between 23rd and Cesar Chavez Streets. Neighbors joined Friends of the Urban Forest on Sunday on the block between 26th Street and Cesar Chavez to add […]

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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San Franciscans Want to Link Parks With Safer Intersections, Living Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 3, 2013 | 4 Comments

Bringing safe bike infrastructure and shared, pedestrian-priority streets to San Francisco are just a couple of popular ideas among users on ImproveSF.com, a city-sponsored website which features a platform for residents to provide input on the Planning Department’s “Green Connections” project. Planners are fielding ideas from the Green Connections section of the website to help shape […]

Construction Begins on Pedestrian-Friendly Redesign of Fisherman’s Wharf

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 3, 2013 | 15 Comments

Crews began work yesterday on an overhaul of Jefferson Street in Fisherman’s Wharf that will expand pedestrian space, reduce the number of cars, and create a more welcoming public realm for the throngs of tourists that regularly crowd the street. Improvements on the first two blocks of Jefferson, between Jones and Hyde Streets, were fast-tracked […]

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