Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Eyes On The Street: Potrero Median Fence Is Partially Built

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

Photos by Matthew Roth A five-foot tall median fence that some advocates fear will actually make the area more dangerous for pedestrians is now being installed on Potrero Avenue between 25th Street and Cesar Chavez. As my colleague Matthew Roth has reported, DPW and MTA are erecting the fence to to prevent people from making […]

DPW Agrees to Delay Pedestrian Median Fence on Potrero Ave

By Matthew Roth | Mar 12, 2009 | 3 Comments

DPW says the Potrero median fence will resemble this one on Van Ness In a closed meeting of agency staff this morning, the DPW agreed to delay the construction of a median fence on Potrero Avenue between 25th Street and Cesar Chavez until they conduct further community outreach in conjunction with Supervisor David Campos’ office. […]

The Nearly Extinct Bipedus Norteamericanus Makes a Comeback

By Matthew Roth | Mar 3, 2009 | 3 Comments

Anthropologists and transit advocates have long bemoaned the rise of The Sacred Rac, its subsequent worship by the majority of the people of the Asu tribe, and the attendant demise of bipedus norteamericanus, or the common pedestrian. But new evidence appears every day that the once-endangered pedestrian may be seeing a resurgence in urban habitats […]

Planning Department Unveils San Francisco’s First Pedestrian Priority Street

By Matthew Roth | Feb 18, 2009 | 8 Comments

The proposed design for a single-surface pedestrian priority Jefferson Street The City Design Group at the Planning Department has released its proposal for transforming Jefferson Street at Fisherman’s Wharf into a single-surface pedestrian priority street, the first of its size in San Francisco. Based on shared space or woonerfs, the plan calls for removing traditional […]

City Slow to Improve Pedestrian Safety in High-Crash Areas

By Janel Sterbentz | Feb 17, 2009 | 6 Comments

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in our series of occasional stories on how to improve the streets for pedestrians in San Francisco. Top 12 Intersections with Most Pedestrian Injury Crashes – Past 10 years (SWITRS) We already know the number of pedestrian injuries and fatalities is increasing in San Francisco. The response by […]

Good Roads?

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

I just finished an interesting journey that took me to the World Social Forum at the mouth of the Amazon River system in Belem, Brazil, and then to Los Angeles and finally home, just in time to attend a presentation last night at CounterPULSE of Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes III. The show consists of rare […]

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