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Complete Streets Act to Hit the State Senate Floor
Finally — the Complete Streets Act (AB 1358), first introduced in February 2007 and then later held in the Senate Appropriations Committee, has been reintroduced and will go before the full California...
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SB 375 and AB 1358: Victory for Livability Legislation
September 30 at midnight is the deadline for the Governor to sign bills into law, and in light of the record-late budget, legislation has been stacking up. Amidst all the signed and vetoed bills, I am...
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Streets Stimulus
This is Denver, not the Bay Area, but one basic issue is the same: each driveway or mid-block curb cut is a lapse in security for a pedestrian. How many other walkable street mistakes can you find?...
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Market Street: Learning to Share
Arguing about how to solve the Market Street problem — usually via some sort of ban on automobiles — is a San Francisco pastime, given how often the topic resurfaces. So it should come as no surprise...
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The New Market Street: 6th and 8th Street Turns
After years of seemingly-endless discussion, the quest to remake San Francisco’s Market Street took a step forward, moving beyond talk and studies to action. In a six-week trial that began today,...
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Chipping Away at the Garage Problem
Take a stroll around North Beach or Chinatown in San Francisco, and you’ll see many of the characteristics you would expect to see in two of the densest urban districts in America’s second densest city...
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DPW holds hearing this week for two proposed parklets
Location of parklet proposed for Post Street. This Wednesday, December 15, 2010, the Department of Public Works (DPW) will hold a hearing (PDF) to gather public comment on two parklets — extensions of...
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Let them have parking lots
Let them have parking lots while waiting for high rises? This week, the Oakland Planning Commission will consider a peculiar concoction brewed up by Planning Department staff called temporary...
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Two-way conversion of Ellis and Eddy moving forward
Eddy & Leavenworth. Photo courtesy of FoundSF, Chris Carlsson. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency finally seems to be pursuing two-way conversion for a handful of one-way blocks in...
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Transit lanes for Church Street
On Church Street in San Francisco near the intersection of Market Street — a nexus of light rail, streetcar, and bus lines — a simple but potentially transformative street improvement was put in place...
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