Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about San Francisco

Whose Parking Regime Reigns Supreme? LA, SF, and NYC Compare Notes

By Stephen Miller | Oct 26, 2012 | 7 Comments

Less than a week after Queens Community Board 3 signed off on DOT’s PARK Smart pilot for Jackson Heights, New York’s neighborhood-level parking policy changes were given some national context on Wednesday at the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ “Designing Cities” conference. Given the Department of City Planning’s halfhearted attempts to reduce off-street parking requirements, NYC […]

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In San Francisco, Victims of Traffic Violence Don’t Have Equal Protection

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 20, 2012 | No Comments

Editor’s note: As the prosecution of cyclist Chris Bucchere, accused of manslaughter for fatally striking pedestrian Sutchi Hui, has drawn national attention, we thought this story would be of interest to our New York readers. SF District Attorney George Gascón is set to bring felony vehicular manslaughter charges against Chris Bucchere later today for biking […]

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San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 25, 2012 | No Comments

Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as “tactical urbanism” — using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space. That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to […]

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Visionary Transpo Bureaucrats, Part 4: Jay Primus and Rina Cutler

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 19, 2012 | No Comments

This is the fourth part in Streetsblog’s series profiling 11 officials who are bringing American cities and towns into the 21st century when it comes to transportation and planning policy. Read the earlier profiles in part one, part two, and part three. Jay Primus Manager, SFMTA’s SFPark program In your average city, parking policy is pretty rigid: […]

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Nightmare on Oak Street: Couple Harassed While Biking, Blamed By SFPD

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 14, 2012 | No Comments

[Editor’s note: We had to share this story out of Streetsblog SF with our New York readers. As badly as NYPD bungles crash investigations, they hardly have a monopoly on mishandling traffic cases.] On their ride home from a Valentine’s Day dinner, Ian Long and Johanna Weaver were harassed by an angry driver and allegedly […]

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SFPark Manager: Too Early to Evaluate Groundbreaking Parking Program

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 16, 2011 | No Comments

It’s too soon in the development of SFPark to draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of demand-responsive pricing on parking habits, says the SFMTA’s Jay Primus, who manages the SFPark program. Primus got in touch yesterday when the Streetsblog Network highlighted a blog post from Michael Perkins at Greater Greater Washington which claimed that the results of the […]

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