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Young Woman Killed by Muni Driver Remembered in the Castro

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 22, 2011 | 28 Comments

Her name was Emily Dunn, and over the weekend, a steady stream of friends and people who never knew her brought flowers, candles and photos of her to the site in the Castro where the young woman was killed Friday afternoon by a Muni driver. A grief-stricken friend, who I met Saturday, said Dunn, who […]

SFPD Numbers Confirm Cops Targeting Bicyclists on Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 55 Comments

Despite the department’s insistence that officers are not targeting bicyclists on Market Street, new numbers from the San Francisco Police Department confirm that cops are going after people on bikes following two high-profile crashes. Last Friday, as part of SFPD’s traffic safety campaign [pdf], officers beefed up enforcement at 5th and Market and issued a […]

Eyes on the Street: What Do You Think of the New SFO Bike Lanes?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 50 Comments

New bike lanes were recently installed around San Francisco International Airport, and the reviews are coming in. Streetsblog San Francisco reader John Murphy, who was the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s 2010 Commuter of the Year, thinks there’s lots of room for improvement. He sent us this scolding review, along with the photos: The new bike […]

Mayor, SFMTA, Walk SF Announce First 15 MPH School Zone

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 18, 2011 | 16 Comments

San Francisco became the first large California city to implement a 15 mph speed zone around a school this morning, as SFMTA workers installed one of four signs that will go up around George Peabody Elementary School on 7th Avenue in the Richmond District. It’s part of a groundbreaking citywide initiative pushed by walking advocates […]

SPUR: How Will 1.7 Million More People Cross the Bay?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 17, 2011 | 35 Comments

Crossing the Bay from SPUR on Vimeo. SPUR has produced a new video that asks: How will 1.7 million more people cross the Bay? From the SPUR blog: In the last century, visionary planners made major investments linking San Francisco and the East Bay. When the 20th century dawned, the only way to get from […]

Recession Forcing Cutbacks at Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Transit Agencies

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 17, 2011 | No Comments

How bad have the past two years been for transit agencies in the United States? In a word: bad. In two words: very bad. In survey results released today [PDF], the American Public Transportation Association reports that 51 percent of transit agencies have either raised fares or reduced service since last year. Meanwhile, 79 percent said […]

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