Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SoMa

Eyes on the Street: Crews Begin Striping Bike Lanes on 8th and 17th Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 3, 2012 | 6 Comments

The SFMTA has begun striping work on new bike lanes along 8th Street in SoMa and 17th Street in the Mission and Potrero Hill. Eighth Street already had a skinny door-zone bike lane, but the SFMTA is expanding it as a buffered bike lane by re-purposing a roughly 10-foot wide motor vehicle lane for bicycles […]

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Envisioning Protected Bike Lanes and Pedestrian Islands for Second Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 29, 2012 | 17 Comments

Advocates for a safer Second Street have released a new rendering showing how the street could function better for pedestrians and cyclists if a protected bike lane is included in the coming redesign. Architect and bike commuter David Baker, whose firm is located on Second, posted the rendering on the blog Great Second Street. “Protected bicycle lanes […]

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Transbay Transit Center to Fill Downtown With People, Not Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2012 | 17 Comments

The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco’s downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa. Scheduled to open in 2017, it will link 11 transit systems and eventually CA High-Speed Rail. Some have called it the “Grand Central of the West.” The SF Planning Commission last week approved […]