Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Francisco Neighborhoods

New Muni-Only Lanes Streamline Buses on Haight, Lincoln at 19th Avenue

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 2, 2014 | 77 Comments

Muni riders have just gotten some sweet new transit-only lanes to speed up their commutes. Red paint is on the ground for two new bus lanes: One at Lincoln Way and 19th Avenue, and another on the east end of Haight Street. A new left-turn lane, exclusively for Muni buses, went into operation this week […]

The (Not-So) Odd Reasons Why SFPD Parks Cars All Around Park Station

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 30, 2014 | 10 Comments

A few years ago, SFPD’s Park Station in Golden Gate Park started storing police trucks and vans on a short section of pathway adjacent to the station’s fence. I first noticed this while biking on Kezar Drive several years ago, and since then I’ve never seen the path without a police vehicle and/or barricade in the […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

Eyes on the Street: New Car-Free Fourth Street Extension at UCSF Campus

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

The extension of Fourth Street with a car-free promenade appears mostly complete at the University of California, San Francisco campus in Mission Bay. In 2012 we reported on how this project can connect 16th Street to Mariposa Street and the Dogpatch neighborhood without inviting more car traffic as UCSF builds out its development. The new block […]

“Not a Freeway” — Re-Branding the Excesses of the $1.4B Presidio Parkway

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 11, 2014 | 47 Comments

When visitors land on the front page of the Presidio Parkway’s website, they see an animated pelican emerging from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, gliding across green hills and blue skies. When the bird lands, you can “Meet Parker” with a click and learn all about the Presidio Parkway Pelican. The PR team for this […]

Developers Don’t Want to Pay for Caltrain/HSR Extension to Transbay Center

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 5, 2014 | 24 Comments

Developers who are building towers around the Transbay Transit Center in SoMa are fighting to reduce a special property tax that will be levied on developments in the area. The biggest loser could be the downtown rail extension to bring Caltrain and California high-speed rail into the terminal, as more of the funds for the […]

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