Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about San Francisco

Park(ing) Day is Coming

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 16, 2007 | 27 Comments

Depressed about the direction Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan is heading? Cheer yourself up by starting to plan for Park(ing) Day 2007. Friday, September 21 is the day when urban dwellers the world over pop quarters into parking meters and take over on-street spaces, temporarily transforming them into miniature parks, playgrounds, cafés and community spaces. […]

On San Fran’s Market Street Bikes Outnumber Cars for a Day

By Brad Aaron | May 22, 2007 | 10 Comments

From the San Francisco Chronicle via Carfree USA: For the first time ever, at the height of the morning rush hour there were more bicycles than cars heading downtown on Market Street in San Francisco, officials said. Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a black track suit, survived the ruts on Valencia Street on his loaner […]

Highway Collapse Causes Transit Expansion

By Brad Aaron | Apr 30, 2007 | 4 Comments

An early morning tanker truck crash that collapsed a portion of heavily-traveled freeway near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has shut down the artery indefinitely. In response, officials are urging Bay Area motorists to take transit. Standing near the wreckage Sunday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed that the state would respond quickly. Schwarzenegger declared […]

The Price of Parking: Let the Free Market Decide?

By Sarah Goodyear | Feb 5, 2007 | 63 Comments

The Wall Street Journal ran a piece this weekend by Conor Dougherty on the municipal move toward charging more for parking. It’s available online to paid subscribers only, but here’s a taste: As anyone who has ever circled the block for a marginally better spot knows, parking is an American obsession. It occasionally boils over […]

Eyes on the Street: Bicoastal Streetcars

By Aaron Donovan | Sep 28, 2006 | 26 Comments

Brooklyn San Francisco Like Clarence Eckerson, I recently returned from a visit to San Francisco. I left with a feeling that San Francisco has the best urban surface transportation in the country: emissions-free buses drawing power from overhead wires, regular buses, cable cars moving up and down steep hills, many cyclists despite those hills, partially buried lightrail and […]

Streetfilms: Park(ing) Day San Francisco

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 25, 2006 | No Comments

Park(ing) Day San FranciscoA Clarence Eckerson StreetfilmRunning time: 6:51 – 22.05 MB, QuickTime New York City Streets Renaissance Filmmaker Clarence Eckerson happened to be in San Francisco on Thursday during International Park(ing) Day. Organized by an art collective called Rebar Group, the idea behind Park(ing) is to reclaim curbside automobile parking spaces by temporarily transforming […]

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