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SFFD OKs Narrower Streets in Candlestick Point Development

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 17, 2014 | 4 Comments

The SF Fire Department will allow many of the new streets built in the Candlestick Point development to remain narrower than 26 feet under a compromise with street safety advocates. SFFD had insisted at the 11th hour that all new city streets must have at least 26 feet of clear roadway for firefighters to set up fire […]

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Northbound San Jose Ave Goes on Road Diet, Gains Buffered Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 4, 2014 | 48 Comments

The northbound side of speed-plagued San Jose Avenue north of 280, a.k.a. the Bernal Cut, is getting a road diet and buffered bike lane that matches the geometry of the street’s southbound side. SFMTA crews were out today, re-striping the road and installing plastic posts in the buffer zone. The change is far overdue for neighbors who have pushed […]

SFFD “Imposing the Authority” to Demand Wider, Speedier Streets

By Aaron Bialick | May 13, 2014 | 27 Comments

The debate over whether San Francisco’s streets should be wider and less safe just to accommodate fire trucks was aired publicly at a City Hall hearing yesterday. Livable streets advocates and Supervisor Scott Wiener, who called the hearing, challenged the SF Fire Department’s insistence on wider roadways, particularly its recent eleventh-hour push to change street widths that […]

Safer, More Transit-Friendly Streets Planned for the Upper Haight

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 9, 2014 | 22 Comments

Update 4/10: The Planning Department posted an online survey where you can weigh in on the design proposal for upper Haight Street. The Planning Department has drawn up early plans for three of the Haight-Ashbury’s major streets: upper Haight Street, Stanyan Street, and the southern end of Masonic Avenue. The proposals for the Haight Ashbury […]

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Mapping San Francisco’s Most Speeding-Plagued Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

A new online map begins to show which San Francisco streets have the worst speeding problems, according to data from SFMTA engineering and traffic surveys. The map was created by Stephanie May, who works for the SF-based organization Urban Mapping and teaches cartography at SF State University and history at Stanford, according to her Twitter […]

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Bayshore Blvd Gets Buffered Bike Lanes, But “Alemany Maze” Still a Barrier

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 24, 2014 | 46 Comments

The SFMTA extended the buffered bike lanes on Bayshore Boulevard earlier this month from Silver Avenue south to Paul Avenue, reducing four traffic lanes to two. The street now provides a calmer, safer bicycling link for Bayview residents all the way up to where Bayshore ends, at Cesar Chavez Street and the “Hairball” freeway interchange. The […]

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