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Seeking Accountability for Poor Curb-Ramp Installation on Park Presidio

By Susan Vaughan | Jun 12, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Susan Vaughan In early April, Caltrans contractors replaced the sidewalk curb ramps along Park Presidio, but left without ensuring a smooth transition between the clean, new curb ramps and the road pavement. Instead, they filled in the spaces between the curb ramps and the roads with bumpy, uneven black asphalt – or they left […]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

By Bryan Goebel | May 22, 2009 | No Comments

The full transformation will take a few months to set up, but come Memorial Day, pedestrians will finally have some breathing room in New York’s Times Square. This is a really exciting weekend for our Streetsblog colleagues in New York City, as Ben Fried writes: When Memorial Day weekend rolls around, here at Streetsblog we […]

Another Model of Convivial Spaces

By Chris Carlsson | Apr 29, 2009 | 13 Comments

Crowds stretch down Glasgow, Scotland’s Buchanan Street pedestrian-only zone. In Glasgow, Scotland a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to reacquaint myself with a lovely feature of many European cities: broad central city streets converted to pedestrian only. In Glasgow it’s on Sauchiehall Street and makes a grand turn onto Buchanan, covering over 20 […]

Sunday Streets Brings Out Throngs of People to Enjoy Car-Free Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 27, 2009 | No Comments

Non-human modes of transportation welcome, too. Photo: SFBike Tens of thousands of people came out to enjoy Sunday Streets yesterday, filling the Embarcadero with walking, cycling, skating and general merriment. The mainstream media couldn’t help but cough up superlatives to describe the car-free event, underscoring its importance to the local economy, to encouraging fitness and […]

First Sunday Streets of 2009: “An Idea With Staying Power”

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 26, 2009 | 11 Comments

People instead of cars fill the streets in Fisherman’s Wharf. Photo by Bryan Goebel. Today’s crisp, sunny weather and car-free waterfront drew thousands of people to San Francisco’s first Sunday Streets of 2009 along the Embarcadero from Aquatic Park to the Giants ballpark. Business seemed like it was booming in Fisherman’s Wharf, dispelling concerns among […]

Cars Invade Golden Gate Park, Inner Sunset as Institutions Reopen

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 16, 2009 | 28 Comments

Photo by Bryan Goebel The Music Concourse in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is living proof of that ancient maxim dating back to the movie Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come. In this case, however, it isn’t the spectators to a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield, but people traveling in […]

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