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Central Subway Pagoda Deal Will Take $9 Million From Muni Operating Funds

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 20, 2013 | 23 Comments

Updated 2/23 A deal struck by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to extract tunnel drills at the site of the abandoned Pagoda Theatre will cost the agency an estimated $9.15 million. While the lease deal with building owner Joel Campos allows the SFMTA to move forward with an extraction plan that’s less disruptive to the […]

Supes Seek Answers on Bike/Ped Strategy, “Better Market Street” Delay

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

Members of the SF Board of Supervisors are calling attention to the need to fund the SFMTA’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Strategies, as well as the delayed Better Market Street project, which suddenly looks like it might not include space for bicycling. The Market Street situation concerned Supervisors Scott Wiener and John Avalos enough to call separate […]

Diana Sullivan, 48, Killed on Bike by Cement Truck Driver at Third and King

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 11, 2013 | 55 Comments

Updated 3:00 p.m. Diana Sullivan, 48, of San Francisco, was killed while bicycling on King Street at Third Street Saturday at about 9:30 a.m. According to media accounts, Sullivan was run over by a cement truck driver. The crash occurred in front of the AT&T Park, where crowds of pedestrians were headed to a Giants […]

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Delayed Again, “Better Market Street” Could Move Bikeway to Mission Street

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 5, 2013 | 58 Comments

The latest news from the Better Market Street project could be a setback for implementing a safe, accessible bike network in San Francisco — not just because construction has been pushed back to 2017, four years past the original date — but because one of the three proposals that planners will study involves building a […]

Cleaning Up SF’s Car-Littered Sidewalks Will Take More Than Parking Tickets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2013 | 41 Comments

Cars littered on San Francisco’s sidewalks are a painfully common sight. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in outer neighborhoods like the Sunset and Bayview, where, for decades, homeowners with residential garages have paved over their front yards. The pedestrian environment on these streets is left degraded, with swaths of dead space where families and people […]

To Boost Shopping in Chinatown, SF Brings Back Ban on Car Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2013 | 31 Comments

In San Francisco’s Chinatown, removing car parking is great for business. Last year’s week-long trial removal of parking on five blocks of Stockton Street was so popular, in fact, that Mayor Ed Lee announced today that the program would return for another two-week run. The parking removal will make more room for vendors and the influx of […]

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