Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Eyes on the Street: Holloway Bike Lane Connects SFSU, City College

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 18, 2014 | 2 Comments

The SFMTA has installed bike lanes and speed bumps on Holloway Avenue between Beverly Street and Ashton Avenue, a stretch that serves as the main bicycling route connecting SF State University to City College’s Ocean Campus and Balboa Park Station. The configuration has a bike lane on one side of the street and a parking […]

Road Diet, Buffered Bike Lane Finally Coming to Northbound Bernal Cut

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

A road diet and buffered bike lane are finally coming to San Jose Avenue north of 280, a.k.a. the Bernal Cut, where neighbors have fought for traffic calming for years. The SFMTA and Caltrans are moving forward with a two-phased pilot project — first, in March, the SFMTA will reallocate one of San Jose’s three […]

Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2014 | 13 Comments

Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]

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SFMTA Unveils Wiggle Plans, Including Traffic Diverter at Scott and Fell

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 23, 2014 | 23 Comments

The Wiggle is set to become a calmer, safer, and greener route after proposals presented by the SFMTA yesterday, with improvements like raised crosswalks, bulb-outs with greenery, textured pavement, and a traffic diverter at Scott and Fell Streets. The diverter, which would prevent drivers from entering the block of Scott between Fell and Oak Streets in the southbound direction […]

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SFFD Not Sure What Delays Responses: “There Might Just Be More Cars”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 21, 2014 | 9 Comments

An official from the SF Fire Department explained SFFD’s position on bulb-outs and road diets last week to the SF Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. According to Assistant Deputy Chief Ken Lombardi, the department’s main concern isn’t about curb extensions, but raised “hardscape” structures like planters or railings that can prevent a fire truck from mounting […]

Parking-Protected Bike Lane Coming to West End of Bay Street

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 17, 2013 | 28 Comments

A new type of bike lane design for San Francisco, and perhaps the whole country, is coming to a four-block stretch of Bay Street in the Marina next fall. The street is set to be redesigned with a road diet [PDF] that includes a parking-protected bike lane on one side of the street, with a […]

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