Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Walking

A Very Astute Critique of Highways by an Editor of The Weekly Standard

By Matthew Roth | Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Eisenhower signing the 1956 Highway Act Far be it from us to take political sides on Livable Streets issues–you don’t have to be a donkey or an elephant to appreciate pedestrian safety, traffic calming, and quality public space–but why is it that two of the best columns connecting transportation policy reform, land use, and energy […]

Using Software to Find Walkable Neighborhoods and Live Car Free

By Matthew Roth | Feb 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

The Bay Area’s public transportation circulatory system. Click for larger view Though David Brooks might argue in his New York Times column that Americans want to live in small towns and suburban dreamscapes, the fact is more and more of us live in metropolitan areas, and discussions about what we want should have to do […]

The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers

By Matthew Roth | Feb 20, 2009 | 25 Comments

A valuable sidewalk, but parking should be removed and the sidewalk widened to accommodate pedestrians and meet ADA requirements. As we wrote a couple days ago about Jefferson Street, merchants on the commercial street there and throughout the city often assume parking spaces in front of their stores are vital to business, that their customers […]

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 […]

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 […]

Two-Way Hayes Extension is a Step Closer, Though Obstacles Remain

By Matthew Roth | Feb 9, 2009 | 10 Comments

Cars whipping around the corner of Gough and Hayes, where pedestrians can only cross three ways There was widespread government and public support for a two-way, traffic-calmed Hayes Street between Gough and Franklin at the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting today, but there is a fundamental disagreement with the MTA […]

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