Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SoMa

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Supe Kim, Mayor Lee Activate New Sixth Street Crossing Signal

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 4, 2014 | 5 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee and D6 Supervisor Jane Kim held a press conference yesterday to activate a new pedestrian signal across deadly Sixth Street at Minna Street, a narrow cross street. Although a marked crosswalk had already existed there, drivers routinely failed to yield to people within it. The button-activated signal is part of a package […]

Eyes on the Street: New Car-Free Fourth Street Extension at UCSF Campus

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

The extension of Fourth Street with a car-free promenade appears mostly complete at the University of California, San Francisco campus in Mission Bay. In 2012 we reported on how this project can connect 16th Street to Mariposa Street and the Dogpatch neighborhood without inviting more car traffic as UCSF builds out its development. The new block […]

Developers Don’t Want to Pay for Caltrain/HSR Extension to Transbay Center

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 5, 2014 | 24 Comments

Developers who are building towers around the Transbay Transit Center in SoMa are fighting to reduce a special property tax that will be levied on developments in the area. The biggest loser could be the downtown rail extension to bring Caltrain and California high-speed rail into the terminal, as more of the funds for the […]

Eyes on the Street: This Is Not a Sidewalk, It’s Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 27, 2014 | 11 Comments

At first (and second) glance, this block in south SoMa appears to have cars parked across what clearly looks to be a sidewalk. The area in question is up on a curb, has curb-level sidewalks leading to it from the streets that intersect on either side of the block, and even has both a trash […]

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SFMTA to Add Bike Lane Buffer on Howard, Fix at Folsom On-Ramp

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 26, 2014 | 16 Comments

The SFMTA plans make upgrades to the Howard and Folsom Street bike lanes, a couplet of one-way bike routes that run through SoMa. A section of Howard will get a three-foot buffer zone added to its bike lane, as well as painted sidewalk bulb-outs. On Folsom, an intersection with the Bay Bridge on-ramp at Essex Street […]

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SFMTA Adds Two Left Turn Bike Boxes in SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 19, 2014 | 17 Comments

The SFMTA installed left turn bike boxes at two SoMa intersections this week. This type of bike infrastructure, new to SF, debuted at Market and Polk Streets last month with the new contra-flow Polk bike lane. The new green-backed bike boxes were placed at two intersections where bike commuters often make “two-stage” left turns between bike […]

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