Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Eyes on the Street

Eyes on the Street: Week in Review

By Matthew Roth | Sep 25, 2009 | No Comments

Photo: plug1 Wow, what a beautiful bunch of uploads the Streetsblog community has been tagging for our Flickr pool! Please keep it up. And plug1 (a.k.a. whatimseeing.com), you rock; we’d put more of your photos up, but we don’t have that much server room. Thanks all for the contributions and please keep sending them our […]

New Bike Racks Installed at Balboa High School

By Michael Rhodes | Sep 11, 2009 | 7 Comments

New bicycle racks at Balboa High. Flickr photo: Christopher Pepper The City of San Francisco is still barred from installing any new bike infrastructure because of a three-year-old injunction, but that’s not stopping the San Francisco Unified School District from installing bike racks at the city’s schools. The school district isn’t covered by the injunction, […]

Eyes on the Street: Timber! San Jose/Guerrero Plaza Gets Tree Stumps

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 31, 2009 | 12 Comments

The construction of Guerrero Park. Flickr photo: throgers It may be the most dramatic Pavement to Parks implementation yet: at the intersection of San Jose Avenue and Guerrero Street, enormous logs have arrived that will form the backbones of planter beds. The Planning Department’s Andres Power provides an update: Logs that form the backbones of […]

Eyes on the Street: Week in Review

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 28, 2009 | No Comments

"1972 November 4. (More than 36 years later … car 1 is part of San Francisco’s historic tramcar fleet. It is now 98 years old (!), and will certainly play a "star" role in the "Muni" 100th anniversary celebration on 2012 December 28.)" Flickr photo: Leroy W. Demery, Jr. Thanks to all of you wonderful […]

Eyes on the Street: Lake Merritt Bike Lane Ends Abruptly

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 26, 2009 | 4 Comments

Lakeside Drive along Lake Merritt, Oakland. Photo: Walk Oakland Bike Oakland A recently-striped bike lane is causing confusion along Lakeside Drive in Oakland. Brian Smith posted the above photo to Livable City’s car-free living mail list, and Walk Oakland Bike Oakland blogged about the issue earlier this month. It still hasn’t been corrected, but Jason […]

The Ghost Streets of San Francisco

By Chris Carlsson | Aug 24, 2009 | 38 Comments

Ghosts cavort where Castro Street should be! Intrepid explorers of San Francisco regularly stumble upon the many ghost streets that still hide all over town, rewarding the patient pedestrian for their diligence. Mostly they are on hillsides where steep grades impeded road building at earlier moments in history, but they’re still presented as if they […]

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