Recent Streetsblog SF posts about District 6

Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Despite living in one of the city’s densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco’s most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s. In a BeyondChron article yesterday, editor and Tenderloin Housing […]

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SF Has to Pick Up the Pace on Downtown Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

Bicycling in San Francisco is getting better since the bicycle injunction was lifted in 2010, and concrete progress on projects like the critical Fell and Oak Street bikeway is very encouraging. But this week also made bicyclists in SF painfully aware that as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency gets closer to completing the projects in its […]

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Planners Refine Ped Upgrades, Protected Bike Lane Designs for Second Street

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

The developing plan to overhaul Second Street with protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety upgrades took another step forward yesterday when staff from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, the Department of Public Works, and the Planning Department presented more refined design options to the public. Under the proposal, the entire one-mile length of Second Street would be […]

Protected Bike Lanes, Ped Safety Upgrades Proposed for Second Street

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 21, 2012 | 14 Comments

Second Street could get protected bike lanes, sidewalk extensions, lane reductions, greening and more under options presented to residents last night by the SF Department of Public Works and the Municipal Transportation Agency. Of the four options presented, one would include one-way protected bike lanes (or “cycle tracks”), and another would include a two-way protected […]

Taxi Driver Who Killed Man in Tenderloin Yet to Be Cited or Charged

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 14, 2012 | 22 Comments

Police are still looking into whether charges could be filed against the taxi driver who allegedly ran a red light at Eddy and Larkin Streets Saturday, causing a car crash that killed pedestrian Edmund Capalla, the SF Examiner reports. The driver has reportedly yet to be arrested or cited. “We have to see if he was […]

Man Killed By Alleged Red Light-Running Taxi Driver at Eddy and Larkin

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 13, 2012 | 3 Comments

Updated 6:57 p.m. A man was killed on Saturday evening by a taxi driver who allegedly ran a red light at Eddy and Larkin Streets, the Bay City News reported as published by SF Appeal this morning. He is the eleventh known pedestrian killed this year in San Francisco. According to the SF Chronicle, Edmund Capalla, 38, was crossing the street just before […]

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