Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about San Francisco

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 […]

Where to Park a Vespa in NYC?

By Glenn McAnanama | Aug 9, 2006 | 11 Comments

While the city is awash in places to park cars on the street and there is some provision for cyclists to park on sidewalks in some places, deciding where to park a Vespa is a difficult choice. Leave it on the street (like the photo above) where some automobile driver will inevitably hit it while trying to […]

Critical Mass, West Coast Style

By Aaron Donovan | Jul 10, 2006 | 1 Comment

Will of OnNYTurf was in San Francisco on June 30 for a wedding, and stopped by their Critical Mass ride. He found it to be a mellow event compared with our version: No chanting, no bike lifts, and, get this, no arrests! It was well attended, with about 800 riders, and of course, it was great exercize. [T]he San […]