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Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2015 | 37 Comments

Two years after the city gave Fisherman’s Wharf a people-friendly redesign on two blocks of Jefferson Street, business is booming. Despite merchants’ fears that removing all car parking on the blocks would hurt their sales, they now say it had the opposite effect. The second phase of the project, which will bring a similar treatment […]

Sup. Christensen: Make the Stockton Tunnel Better for Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2015 | 15 Comments

D3 Supervisor Julie Christensen wants to make the Stockton Tunnel more comfortable to walk and bike through. She announced today that she procured at least $100,000 in the city budget for a study of improvements in the next fiscal year. “Union Square is known all over the world. Chinatown is known all over the world,” […]

SFMTA Proposes Short-Term Safety Upgrades for Octavia Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | May 7, 2015 | 4 Comments

Ten years after Octavia Boulevard opened in the footprint of the former Central Freeway, the SFMTA has proposed a package of short-term safety fixes for people walking and biking, especially along the cross streets. The upgrades could be implemented by the end of 2016. Proposals in the works include a bike lane on eastbound Page Street, a […]

SFPD: Car Was Reported Stolen After Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Caught on Video

By Aaron Bialick | May 1, 2015 | 15 Comments

The car used in a pedestrian hit-and-run caught on video was reported stolen by its registered owner the morning after the crash, according to the SFPD. As we reported this week, video was posted online after a crash that occurred at Second and Howard Streets in the early morning hours of April 18. The driver was seen […]

Chinatown Program to Turn Kids Into Safe Streets “Investigators”

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

A new after-school program will teach kids in Chinatown not just how to survive on car-centric streets — but also how to redesign them. Students in grades 3 to 5 will learn to act as “city street investigators” in a program launched by the Chinatown YMCA, the Chinatown Community Development Center, the SF Safe Routes to School […]

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Why Townsend Street Needs Protected Bike Lanes at 4th and King Station

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 13, 2015 | 81 Comments

Anyone who uses Townsend Street’s eastbound bike lane to commute to Caltrain is sure to run into a litany of obstacles: Taxis, shuttles, private autos, and Muni buses obliterate the poor bike lane in the fight for curb space. (Much of the curb is reserved as a taxi stand.) Sam McCandlish sent in this video, filmed by a friend of his, showing […]

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