Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about San Francisco

Transit-Oriented America, Part 3: Three More Cities

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 22, 2007 | 30 Comments

Part 3 in a series on rail and transit-only travel across the United States focuses on the final three cities of our journey. Part 2 looked at the first three and Part 1 presented an overview of our travel. San Francisco Fully restored streetcars, cable cars, buses with and without pantographs, submerged and at-grade light rail, a […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 20, 2007 | 44 Comments

My wife and I were married last month in Brooklyn. For our honeymoon, we wanted to see as many great American cities as we could. In 19 days of travel, we visited Chicago, Seattle, Portland (Ore.), San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans (and also stopped briefly in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia). How could two people as obsessed as […]

Bike Parking on Steroids

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 27, 2007 | 23 Comments

"Cyclists are so used to doing with scraps and they’ve been that way for so long that they are shocked when they get anything that satisfies their needs." Barry Bonds may almost have the home run record, but the San Francisco Giants have another milestone that is much more admirable: the first free, convienent, […]

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 […]

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