Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Market Street

Traffic Engineer Jack Fleck Looks Back at 25 Years of Shaping SF Streets

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 1, 2010 | 18 Comments

Jack Fleck, who retired yesterday after 25 years with the SFMTA, has been pondering the city’s streets from his 7th floor office above Van Ness and Market Streets. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on the past, present and future of traffic engineering in San Francisco. Jack […]

Reaction to Market Street Pilot Seems Overwhemingly Positive

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

At Market and 7th Street, people already greatly outnumber cars. Photo: Michael Rhodes The series of trials scheduled to begin September 29 on Market Street are still seeping into the public’s awareness, but so far, pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit riders seem to share an excitement about the plan, which will reduce traffic by forcing eastbound […]

San Francisco Moves to Remake Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 9, 2009 | 29 Comments

A highly conceptual image from the SFCTA of what a re-visioned Market Street could look like. Five San Francisco agencies, together with a number of community partners, will initiate a series of bold trials this month, which they hope will eventually help transform Market Street into a revitalized, thriving city thoroughfare, bustling with "activated public […]

Eyes on the Street: A New Crosswalk at Market, Golden Gate and Taylor

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 10, 2009 | 7 Comments

The new crosswalk surface at Market, Golden Gate and Taylor. Flickr photo: geekstinkbreath Hot on the heels of a mystery stenciler who couldn’t wait for bike lane improvements, the Department of Public Works has done some stenciling of its own at one of the city’s most hazardous intersections for pedestrians. On Thursday, crews worked to […]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

By Bryan Goebel | May 22, 2009 | No Comments

The full transformation will take a few months to set up, but come Memorial Day, pedestrians will finally have some breathing room in New York’s Times Square. This is a really exciting weekend for our Streetsblog colleagues in New York City, as Ben Fried writes: When Memorial Day weekend rolls around, here at Streetsblog we […]

Another Model of Convivial Spaces

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

Crowds stretch down Glasgow, Scotland’s Buchanan Street pedestrian-only zone. In Glasgow, Scotland a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with a lovely feature of many European cities: broad central city streets converted to pedestrian only. In Glasgow it’s on Sauchiehall Street and makes a grand turn onto Buchanan, covering over 20 […]

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