Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Mayor Ed Lee

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Mayor Lee on Walk to Work Day: We Won’t Let Ped Strategy Sit on the Shelf

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 12, 2013 | 15 Comments

On Walk to Work Day, touted as the first official event of its kind in the nation, city officials strolled to a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where Mayor Ed Lee promised to implement the city’s Pedestrian Strategy [PDF]. Since the Draft Pedestrian Strategy was released in January, providing a rough guide for […]

After 6 Ped Deaths in 3 Months, SF Needs City Hall Action on Street Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 2, 2013 | 9 Comments

In the first three months of 2013, six pedestrians have been killed on San Francisco streets. At that rate, the city is on course for pedestrian deaths to rise for the third year in a row. The trend is striking: Since 2010, when 14 pedestrians were killed on San Francisco streets, more have died each […]

Letter From London: What a Mayoral Commitment to Cycling Looks Like

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

A few weeks after SF Mayor Ed Lee displayed a total lack of commitment to the city’s Bike Strategy, London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced an aggressive $1.3 billion plan for a comprehensive bike network, including protected bike lanes. Streetsblog NYC‘s Stephen Miller reports: “Cycling will be treated not as niche, marginal, or an afterthought, but […]

Failing to Back Up His Words, Mayor Lee Won’t Fund SF’s Bike Strategy

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2013 | 40 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee has made it clear that he has no plans to take leadership on funding San Francisco’s vision for making bicycling a mainstream mode of transportation. During a question-and-answer session at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Eric Mar asked the mayor how he will help fund the SFMTA’s Draft Bicycle Strategy, a […]

SF’s Pedestrian Strategy: A Smart But Unfunded Vision for Safer Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2013 | 7 Comments

Two years after the Pedestrian Safety Task Force formed to devise a plan to meet the ambitious targets for reducing injuries set by former Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency has released its Draft Pedestrian Strategy [PDF]. The document serves as a rough guide for how the city can re-engineer streets and target […]

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Mayor’s Transpo Chief: “Let’s Be San Francisco and Take Down the Freeway”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 11, 2013 | 186 Comments

The idea of removing the northern section of Highway 280 near Mission Bay is gaining more traction as planners look for ideal ways to usher in high-speed rail and transit-oriented development in downtown San Francisco. At a SPUR forum yesterday, Mayor Ed Lee’s transportation policy director, Gillian Gillett, sketched out a proposal to follow in the […]

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