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New Renderings, Details on Car-Free Areas From “Better Market Street”
Market between First and Second Streets shown with raised bike lanes. Images: Better Market Street The vision for Market Street (and potentially Mission) is becoming clearer with the release of new...
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Eyes on the Street: Lounging on a Reclaimed Valencia Street
Photos: Clarence Eckerson, Jr. Swinging through SF for a few days, Streetfilms producer Clarence spotted a nice setup at yesterday’s Sunday Streets in the Mission. Harrington’s, an antique furniture...
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We Used to Expect Streets to Be as Safe as We Do Holly Park
Photo: Matthew Sumner, SF Chronicle Rarely does the death of someone struck by a motorist garner as much public outrage as the incident in Holly Park last week. Media around the world has covered the...
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Market Street: Transit Paint Upgrades Coming, but Car Bans Still Missing
New intersection markings could help reduce the number of drivers “blocking the box” on Market this spring, but the SFMTA has continued to postpone proposals to get cars off Market altogether. Photo:...
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SFMTA to Ban Cars on Kezar, Stanyan, Haight Street for 4/20 This Sunday
Upper Haight Street, Stanyan Street, and Kezar Drive will be closed to cars for 4/20. Photo: Aaron Bialick The SFMTA announced that cars will be banned on several major streets for the 4/20 gathering...
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SFMTA Considers Restricting Cars on Crooked Lombard Street
Photo: Aaron Bialick The “crookedest street in the world” block of Lombard Street is a world-famous tourist attraction, but the resulting car traffic causes congestion and safety problems and may lead...
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“Closing” Lombard Street: The Language of Taking Cars For Granted
Crooked Lombard Street is being partially closed to cars, and mainly opened to people. But you wouldn’t know that from reading the headlines. Photo: SFMTA A peculiar thing tends to happen when we talk...
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Car-Free Lombard Street, Filled With People, is KPIX’s Vision of “Chaos”
KPIX reporter Brian Webb, live at ground zero, with car-free mayhem in the background. Image: CBS-KPIX Last weekend, San Francisco’s world-famous crooked block of Lombard Street saw most of its car...
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Dance Performance Celebrates Temporarily Car-Free Lombard Street
Last week, cars once again took over SF’s crooked block of Lombard Street, following the last of a series of weekend trials that banned most cars from the street and opened it up to people instead. The...
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Eyes on the Street: New Car-Free Fourth Street Extension at UCSF Campus
Andy Thornley rides on the new block of Fourth Street at UCSF Mission Bay. Photo: Jessica Kuo The extension of Fourth Street with a car-free promenade appears mostly complete at the University of...
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Auto-Clogged Powell Street Could Be a Car-Free Haven
Photo: Aaron Bialick It’s a wonder that anyone drives a car on Powell Street in Union Square. Yet along the busiest pedestrian thoroughfare this side of the United States, you’ll typically see the...
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Union Square’s “Winter Walk” Plaza on Stockton a Hit – Why Bring Cars Back?
Stockton Street, between Ellis and Geary Streets, has temporarily been transformed into well-loved “Winter Walk” plaza. Photo: Sergio Ruiz/Flickr Families are loving “Winter Walk SF,” the temporary...
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Stockton Street “Winter Walk” Plaza to Return Next Holiday Season
Photo: Marc-André Carignan/Twitter The incredibly popular (but temporary) “Winter Walk” plaza will return to Stockton Street in Union Square for another holiday season in December, the local business...
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Hearst Corp Backs Off Bid to Tear Out Annie Alley Street Plaza
Photo: SPUR/Flickr The Hearst Corporation has withdrawn its appeal against the Annie Alley street plaza [PDF] after talks with city planners and the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District. The bid to...
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Should SF Streets Go Car-Free to Make Room for Nightlife?
Vancouver’s Granville Street, seen here in 2013, is regularly closed to cars on weekend nights. Should SF do the same with its nightlife streets? Photo: Aaron Bialick Polk, Valencia, Castro, Broadway —...
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Cars Will Remain on the Crooked Block of Lombard Street Until at Least 2016
A dance mob makes its way down Lombard. Image via Youtube Cars will continue to fill the crooked block of Lombard Street until at least 2016. Although the trial car closures last summer were seen as a...
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New York City Now Has Permanently Car-Free Roads in Two Major Parks
Photo: Ben Fried A week after New York City’s Central Park went mostly car-free, today marked the beginning of the permanent car-free zone on the west side of Prospect Park [PDF]. Leading up to today,...
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Eyes on the Street: Twitter’s Alley-Turned-Plaza Bustles Near Civic Center
City transportation staffers enjoy the astroturfed plaza created on the Stevenson Street alley as part of the Twitter building’s renovation. Photo: Jessica Kuo A plaza is bustling with life several...
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SFMTA Proposes a Car-Free Powell Street in Union Square
Photo: Aaron Bialick The SFMTA has proposed making crowded, traffic-clogged Powell Street in Union Square a car-free street on a trial basis. Removing cars from the equation would make the street...
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Sup. Christensen Gives Tentative Support for Car-Free Powell Street
District 3 Supervisor Julie Christensen offered tentative support for the car-free Powell Street trial proposed for Union Square. The SFMTA hopes to have a pilot project in place in November, in time...
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