Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Advocates Call on SFMTA to Take Immediate Steps to Fix Masonic Avenue

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 20, 2010 | 10 Comments

A ghost bike at Masonic and Turk in memory 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was killed by a drunk driver one week ago. Photo: Michael Helquist of BIKE NOPA. A week after a 21-year-old German tourist on a bicycle was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver on Masonic Avenue, the first death of a bicyclist in […]

Tiffany Street Neighbors Make a Party of Ripping Up Concrete

By Matthew Roth | Jul 19, 2010 | 12 Comments

A new wider tree well get’s a new tree from Friends of the Urban Forest. Photos: Matthew Roth. Starting last week along Tiffany Street near 29th Street, contractors started cutting up sidewalks, jackhammering them and taking the crumbled pieces of concrete away in trucks. By the end of the week, what looked like an ugly […]

Bernal and Glen Park Neighbors Seek Traffic Calming in “The Cut”

By Matthew Roth | Jun 28, 2010 | 75 Comments

Looking south on San Jose Avenue from Randall Street. The southbound direction narrows to two lanes, but the northbound direction remains three. Photos: Matthew Roth By the time the political tides had turned against ripping up neighborhoods to make way for freeways in the late 1950s, the result of the San Francisco freeway revolt, many […]

San Francisco Planners Proud of Long List of Road Diets

By Matthew Roth | Mar 31, 2010 | 43 Comments

Valencia Street bicycle lane and stencil. Photo:KayVee.INC Although there is no record book for the cities with the most traffic-calmed streets, San Francisco planners believe their city has the most road diets, or roads that have had auto lanes narrowed or removed to calm traffic speeds and provide room for other modes of travel. The […]

Van Ness Avenue Pedestrian Crashes See Fourfold Increase in 2009

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 12, 2010 | 8 Comments

The mess on Van Ness at California, scene of three pedestrian crashes last year. Photo: Bryan Goebel When the Examiner reported that a double-fine zone on part of Van Ness Avenue had not only failed to reduce crashes, but that crashes had actually increased by 40 percent there in the last year, it raised eyebrows. […]

Driver Kills Woman in Crosswalk on Six-Lane, 40 MPH Sloat Blvd

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 7, 2010 | 12 Comments

View Larger Map A 55-year-old San Francisco woman died early this morning at San Francisco General Hospital nearly ten hours after after she was hit by a driver while crossing Sloat Boulevard at Forest View Drive. The 6:23 p.m. crash yesterday occurred as the victim attempted to cross six-lane Sloat Boulevard from the south. Using […]

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