Recent Streetsblog SF posts about District 6

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8th St. Buffered Bike Lane a Step Up, But When Will SoMa Really Feel Safe?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 13, 2012 | 24 Comments

A new buffered bike lane was striped on 8th Street last week, re-purposing a traffic lane for bicycles on one of SoMa’s fast, one-way motorways. The new configuration, which removes bicyclists from the door zone and provides a much wider lane, is an improvement over the four speed-inducing traffic lanes and skinny bike lane that […]

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SFMTA Sets 25 MPH Limits on Four SoMa Streets. Time for Speed Cams?

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 8, 2012 | 31 Comments

Speed limits have been lowered from 30 MPH to 25 MPH on Howard, Folsom, Harrison, and Bryant Streets in the South of Market area, the SFMTA announced yesterday. The agency approved the speed limit reductions last year as “an effective way to improve pedestrian and traffic safety in the area,” said SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin […]

Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Restores Two-Way Traffic on Ellis

By Aaron Bialick | May 22, 2012 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA last week restored two-way traffic on four blocks of Ellis Street, from Polk to Jones Streets. It’s the final phase of a project that also converted two blocks of the adjacent Eddy Street last month, bringing humane traffic speeds to what used to be highway-like, one-way arterial streets. Check out more of Frank Chan’s […]

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Protected Bike Lanes, Ped Safety Top Priorities for Second Street Neighbors

By Aaron Bialick | May 4, 2012 | 15 Comments

Safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossings should be top priorities in the redesign of Second Street. That was the major sentiment at a community meeting on Wednesday, where city staffers rebooting the faltered Second Street Improvement Project asked attendees how they would re-envision the corridor. The residents who attended worked in small groups. Of the 12 […]

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SFMTA Brings Humane, Two-Way Traffic Back to Ellis and Eddy

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 24, 2012 | 7 Comments

The SFMTA began converting several blocks of Ellis and Eddy to two-way streets in the Tenderloin last week. The conversion is expected to calm motor traffic on the former multi-lane, one-way arterial streets designed to rush car traffic through one of the city’s densest neighborhoods. “Converting one-way streets to two-way is a proven way to slow traffic, […]

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New Plan Would Transform Three Alleyways in West SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 28, 2012 | 14 Comments

Three alleyways in the city’s motor-dominated South of Market (SoMa) area could be transformed into pedestrian-friendly havens with a new plan approved by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) Board yesterday. The Western SoMa Neighborhood Transportation Plan would bring traffic-calming measures like chicanes, greening, pedestrian bulb-outs and raised crosswalks along Minna and Natoma Street between […]

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