Recent Streetsblog SF posts about San Francisco Neighborhoods

Eyes on the Street: Twitter’s Alley-Turned-Plaza Bustles Near Civic Center

By Aaron Bialick | | 7 Comments
A plaza is bustling with life several months after its creation on a segment of the Stevenson Street alleyway at 10th Street, next to the Twitter offices. The “Market Square” plaza is a privately-owned public open space built as part of Twitter’s office construction and renovations. That intersection of the mid-Market, SoMa, and Civic Center areas was relatively dead just a few […]

SFPD Tickets Bike Commuters Trying to Get By Car Queue on Page Street

By Aaron Bialick | | 274 Comments
Here’s today’s edition of egregious waste of SFPD resources used to harass people on bikes. SFPD officers were posted at the bottom of the hill on Page Street at Octavia Boulevard this morning ticketing bike commuters who squeezed to the left of stopped cars. Freeway-bound drivers routinely queue up to turn right, occupying several blocks of Page’s only eastbound traffic […]

SFMTA Wants to Remove King Street Bike Lanes, Won’t Improve Alternative

By Aaron Bialick | | 44 Comments
The SFMTA wants to remove bike lanes and sharrows on King Street in SoMa’s South Beach area to discourage bicycling on the truck-heavy street, Hoodline reports. The agency wants to divert bike commuters to the parallel stretch of Townsend Street, but has no plans to improve the bike lanes there, which are unprotected and routinely blocked by drivers near […]
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