Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Presidio Trial Closure Leads to Large Drop in Traffic, Cut-Through Trips

By Matthew Roth | Dec 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo: Cheryl and Rich The Presidio Trust has finished compiling the traffic data it collected during a three-week trial closure on Presidio Boulevard in October, a closure that brought much scorn for the Trust from drivers and some neighbors of the park. Despite the outcry, the trial provided important information for the Trust as the […]

Free Public Transit?

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 7, 2009 | 26 Comments

A crowded moment in the Tunnelbana, Stockholm, Sweden’s efficient and easy public subway system. In Stockholm, Sweden, a fascinating political intervention has been taking place during the past few years. Starting originally around 2000-2001 in an anarcho-syndicalist youth organization, Planka.nu is a surprisingly innovative and effective transit activist group. Today it is still an entirely […]

News from NY: What We Can Learn from Times Square’s Public Spaces

By Matthew Roth | Oct 28, 2009 | No Comments

This used to be the scene of gridlocked traffic. A pedestrian plaza was carved out the the old roadbed of Broadway in NYC’s Times Square. Photo: berk2804 When Tim Tompkins took over as President of the Times Square Alliance, one of New York City’s largest Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), the primary concerns were the security […]

It’s Time to Turn Oak and Fell Into Slow Streets

By Dave Snyder | Sep 24, 2009 | 41 Comments

Flickr photo: pbo31 The SFMTA’s plans to install freeway-style traffic information signs on Oak and Fell Streets were not very popular, to say the least, at last week’s meeting of the North of Panhandle Neighborhood Association. The signs, two of seven the MTA plans to install around the city, are part of the SFgo program […]

NoPa Neighborhood Fights to Calm its Residential Freeway

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 17, 2009 | 18 Comments

Cars regularly block the bike lane on Fell Street near the Arco Station. Photo: Bryan Goebel In a city where people and cars regularly jostle for space, it’s not uncommon to have speeding traffic just inches or feet from pedestrians, homes, and parks. This spatial conflict is especially pronounced on Fell and Oak Streets, which […]

Reaction to Market Street Pilot Seems Overwhemingly Positive

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

At Market and 7th Street, people already greatly outnumber cars. Photo: Michael Rhodes The series of trials scheduled to begin September 29 on Market Street are still seeping into the public’s awareness, but so far, pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders seem to share an excitement about the plan, which will reduce traffic by forcing eastbound […]

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