Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Golden Gate Park

JFK Drive Bikeway Promises Pleasant Travel in Golden Gate Park

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2011 | 45 Comments

As early as this spring, residents and tourists could be enjoying a world-class bi-directional, physically-separated bikeway along a 1.5 -mile stretch of Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Drive as part of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s (SFBC) Connecting the City campaign for a network of routes safe and comfortable enough for an eight […]

Eyes on the Street: Is this Our Stop? Signage Shortcomings on Muni Metro

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 23, 2009 | 21 Comments

Like most Muni Metro surface stops, the N-Judah stop at 9th and Irving offers little guidance to museum-bound riders. Photos: Michael Rhodes Anyone who’s given a friend from out of town directions on riding Muni knows it can be tricky to describe just where they need to get off to reach their destination. Fortunately, buses […]

Eyes on the Street: Backwards Driver Crashes Into Cyclist in GG Park

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 18, 2009 | 41 Comments

Flickr photo: NateShow From SF Citizen via Eyes on Blogs comes word of a nasty collision between a bicyclist and an SUV driver in Golden Gate Park Wednesday. The photographer who snapped these shots described the crash on his Flickr post: The driver of this SUV (apparently not from the area), was backing up in […]

Farming, Park Parking and Empty Promises

By Chris Carlsson | Jul 13, 2009 | 22 Comments

The Potemkin Victory Garden during Slow Food Nation, August 2008. Gavin Newsom is running for President, er um, I mean Governor (you gotta take these things one step at a time). Maybe he’ll make it, maybe something will wreck his chances. It’s an interesting drama from the point of view of recent American history, as […]

Cars Invade Golden Gate Park, Inner Sunset as Institutions Reopen

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 16, 2009 | 28 Comments

Photo by Bryan Goebel The Music Concourse in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is living proof of that ancient maxim dating back to the movie Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come. In this case, however, it isn’t the spectators to a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield, but people traveling in […]

Healthy Saturdays Are Back!

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 3, 2009 | 4 Comments

Flickr photo: Kate McCarthy, sfbike Last Saturday, as I was pedaling through Golden Gate Park, alongside a glut of bumper-to-bumper cars, I kept thinking to myself, "Why did I come on Saturday?" It had been so long since I spent a Saturday in GG Park. The juxtaposition was disgusting to me: a gaggle of cars […]