Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SoMa

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 […]

Melissa Kitson, 44, Killed in Two-Car Crash in SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 22, 2013 | 26 Comments

Last Friday, two drivers ran over and killed 44-year-old Melissa Kitson of San Lorenzo at 7th and Howard Streets, the second pedestrian fatality in San Francisco this year. According to press accounts, the crash occurred at about 5:45 p.m. Police say the investigation is ongoing, and there are few details available on how it occurred. Both drivers reportedly stayed […]

Eyes on the Street: A Livable Street Emerges Next to the Central Freeway

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 14, 2013 | 12 Comments

A nice little transformation has taken place on Elgin Park, a one-block residential street next to the Central Freeway touchdown at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard. Streetsblog reader Mark Dreger sent in the above photo of the makeover, noting that “it looks like SF’s version of a woonerf” — the Dutch term for the pedestrianized […]

Will CPMC Pick Up the Slack for Street Safety in the Neglected Tenderloin?

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2013 | 5 Comments

Despite living in one of the city’s densest residential neighborhoods with one of the lowest rates of car ownership, Tenderloin residents have endured some of San Francisco’s most dangerous streets for walking since traffic engineers turned most of them into one-way, high-speed motorways in the 1960s. In a BeyondChron article yesterday, editor and Tenderloin Housing […]

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SF Has to Pick Up the Pace on Downtown Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

Bicycling in San Francisco is getting better since the bicycle injunction was lifted in 2010, and concrete progress on projects like the critical Fell and Oak Street bikeway is very encouraging. But this week also made bicyclists in SF painfully aware that as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency gets closer to completing the projects in its […]

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Planners Refine Ped Upgrades, Protected Bike Lane Designs for Second Street

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 29, 2012 | 3 Comments

The developing plan to overhaul Second Street with protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety upgrades took another step forward yesterday when staff from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, the Department of Public Works, and the Planning Department presented more refined design options to the public. Under the proposal, the entire one-mile length of Second Street would be […]

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