Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Francisco Neighborhoods

Appeals Board Reverses Vote to Downsize Parking-Free 1050 Valencia

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 27, 2014 | 16 Comments

The San Francsco Board of Appeals voted yesterday to reverse its decision to downsize the long-embattled condo project at 1050 Valencia Street in the Mission. The project includes no car parking and one bike parking space for each unit. The vote restores the full 12 units approved by the Planning Department and Board of Supervisors. The Appeals […]

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Ped Signal at Sunset and Yorba, Where Man Was Killed, Sped Up by a Year

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 19, 2014 | 13 Comments

On deadly Sunset Boulevard, the SFMTA’s plans for a new pedestrian-activated stop light at Yorba Street have been advanced by a year. The signal, originally scheduled to go in by the end of 2016, is now set to be activated by the end of 2015, according to SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose. Currently, the Sunset and […]

Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2014 | 13 Comments

Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]

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TEP Update: Muni Behind on Transit Signal Priority, But the N Is Near

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 27, 2014 | 35 Comments

Half of San Francisco’s traffic signals were supposed to have transit priority installed by this spring, according to the ambitious schedule set out by managers of the Muni Transit Effectiveness Project two years ago. This may not come as much of a surprise, but the SFMTA isn’t quite meeting its target. Of the 600 signals to […]

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DPW Tallies the Vote Before Committing to More Ped Space on Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 7, 2014 | 3 Comments

The Department of Public Works has selected a design option for the two most heavily-contested blocks of Potrero Avenue following a vote by attendees of two public meetings. Of the three choices presented for the section between 22nd and 24th Streets in front of SF General Hospital, the most popular was Option 1, which will allocate […]

SFMTA Abandons Parking Meter Plans in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 20, 2013 | 56 Comments

The SFMTA has given up on its neighborhood-scale plans to install parking meters in the Dogpatch and Portrero Hill, while parking meter approvals in the northeast Mission move forward at a snail’s pace. After two years of tangling with the city, the defenders of dysfunctional free parking have effectively caused a huge setback for progressive […]

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