Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Walking

SFMTA “Daylights” Crosswalks to Improve Pedestrian Visibility

By Aaron Bialick | May 16, 2011 | 22 Comments

Making eye contact with a driver while walking across an intersection is important, but what if a driver’s line of vision is obscured by cars parked within a few feet of a crosswalk? “There have been times when people make the turn really quickly and they don’t see you and don’t have enough time to […]

SFMTA’s Climate Action Strategy Will Require Broad Political Support

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 27, 2011 | 6 Comments

San Francisco could be headed on a course toward transportation sustainability, granted it’s the politically popular thing to do. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) recently released its 2011 Draft Climate Action Strategy [PDF], laying out a progressive blueprint for how the city should tackle reducing its greenhouse gas emissions from one of their […]

Peru’s Traffic Menagerie

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our daily urban lives shape our imaginations in so many ways. Few things box us in like our everyday transit options, and the patterns of traffic that shape our sense of public space. These patterns themselves are historical of course. A quick look back at the famous Market Street film shot a few days before […]

SFMTA Board Debates Mode Shift Goal at Workshop

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 21, 2010 | 37 Comments

SFMTA Chief Nat Ford presented his “State of the SFMTA” [pdf] report to the board of directors at a special workshop today, a mostly glowing assessment of the past few years but one that acknowledged the pains of its funding crises and the many challenges the agency faces as it looks to the future. It […]

Our Waistlines Are Expanding In Sync With Our Car-Dependence

By Adam Voiland | Aug 9, 2010 | No Comments

States with the highest obesity rates also tend to be where the fewest people bike or walk to work. Image: CDC Two reports released last week underscored the increasing severity of America’s obesity epidemic. And the eye-opening findings add to the mounting evidence that stopping the spread of obesity and its attendant health risks will […]

Federal Bike-Ped Funding Sets New High, With Much More Room to Grow

By Ben Fried | Jun 16, 2010 | 3 Comments

Graph: FHWA [PDF] Federal funding for pedestrian and bicycle projects reached a new high last year, according to a report released today by the Federal Highway Administration. In terms of dollars, federal investment in walking and biking more than doubled compared to the previous high, set in 2007, thanks largely to an infusion of $400 […]

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