Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Sunset

Irving Merchants Riled by Proposal to Turn 12 Parking Spots Into Public Space

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 37 Comments

Once again, a merchant group is contesting a proposal that would improve walking and public space on a San Francisco street. At a community meeting on plans to add greening and sidewalk corner extensions on central Irving Street last week, merchants balked at the idea of removing 10 to 12 parking spaces to extend eight […]

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DPW Looks to Add Some Green to Car-Clogged Central Irving Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 3, 2013 | 20 Comments

Most of the space on the busy commercial stretch of central Irving Street in the Sunset serves as a clogged parking lot, with rampant double parking and drivers circling the easternmost block to work around 19th Avenue’s left-turn bans. But while the car traffic and angled parking spots that eat up public space may not disappear […]

New D4 Supervisor Katy Tang: Curbing Muni Switchbacks a Top Priority

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 1, 2013 | 7 Comments

Katy Tang was sworn in Wednesday as the supervisor for District 4, comprised of the outer and central Sunset. Tang, who grew up in the district, was appointed this week by Mayor Ed Lee to replace Carmen Chu, who Lee recently picked to serve as the city’s assessor-recorder. Chu spent five years on the Board of […]

Cleaning Up SF’s Car-Littered Sidewalks Will Take More Than Parking Tickets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2013 | 41 Comments

Cars littered on San Francisco’s sidewalks are a painfully common sight. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in outer neighborhoods like the Sunset and Bayview, where, for decades, homeowners with residential garages have paved over their front yards. The pedestrian environment on these streets is left degraded, with swaths of dead space where families and people […]

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Great Highway Re-Paving to Come With Minor Bike-Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2013 | 17 Comments

The Great Highway, the motorway that divides Ocean Beach from the Outer Sunset and Richmond, is set to get some bike lane and pedestrian improvements north of Lincoln Way as part of a nine-month re-paving project started this week by the Department of Public Works. The 6-foot painted bike lanes planned between Lincoln and Cabrillo Street would […]