Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Mayor Ed Lee

SFMTA Cuts Block of Polk Bike Lane Fought By Visionless Mayor’s Optometrist

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 26, 2015 | 136 Comments

The SFMTA has nixed a block of protected bike lane planned on Polk Street, where merchants including Mayor Ed Lee’s optometrist have vocally opposed it to preserve car parking. The raised, protected bike lane between California and Pine Streets was removed from Polk’s plans six months after they were presented at the final public open house. […]

Mayor Appoints Livable Streets Proponent Julie Christensen as D3 Supe

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 7, 2015 | 8 Comments

Julie Christensen, a leading North Beach advocate for wider sidewalks and a Central Subway extension, has been appointed as the new District 3 Supervisor by Mayor Ed Lee. Christensen fills the seat left by David Chiu after his election to the State Assembly. She has shown promise as a neighborhood leader who stands behind changes […]

Are Mayor Lee, SFPD, and SFMTA Serious About Ending Hazardous Parking?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee, along with the heads of the SFPD and SFMTA, vowed yesterday to crack down on double parking and “box blocking” as part of broader “Congestion Management Strategy to improve traffic flow and safety.” It’s a big promise, upending SF’s history of lax enforcement towards parking violations that routinely make streets more dangerous […]

Safe Streets Advocates: “Enough is Enough” — Time to End Traffic Violence

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 10, 2014 | 9 Comments

The recent spate of drivers killing or maiming pedestrians has both City Hall leaders and SF agencies running out of excuses for their snail’s-pace implementation of measures that would make city streets safer. At a rally on Friday, a coalition of safe streets advocates chanted, “Enough is enough.” The 28 people killed in crashes on […]

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Supe Kim, Mayor Lee Activate New Sixth Street Crossing Signal

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 4, 2014 | 5 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee and D6 Supervisor Jane Kim held a press conference yesterday to activate a new pedestrian signal across deadly Sixth Street at Minna Street, a narrow cross street. Although a marked crosswalk had already existed there, drivers routinely failed to yield to people within it. The button-activated signal is part of a package […]

Who’s Not Against Cars-First Prop L? Supes Tang, Farrell, Yee, and Mayor Lee

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 31, 2014 | 3 Comments

With only a few days left until the election, four elected officials have yet to take a stance on Proposition L, the Republican-crafted measure that misleadingly urges San Francisco to “restore transportation balance” by giving priority to private automobiles and free parking. Supervisors Katy Tang, Mark Farrell, Norman Yee, and Mayor Ed Lee apparently see no need to come out against […]

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