Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about “Safe Streets”

Page Street Follow up: Leaked Comms Prove the Mayor is Killing Slow Streets

By Roger Rudick | Aug 3, 2022 | No Comments

A city hall insider has sent Streetsblog internal communications that confirm reports that Mayor London Breed was behind delays to the installation of long-approved traffic diverters on Page Street.

What Sunset Boulevard could be. Image: Sunset 4 All!

BikeSummit Preview: Advocacy Success Stories

By Melanie Curry | Mar 11, 2022 | No Comments

As a preview of the upcoming California Bicycle Summit, CalBike recently offered "Advocacy Success Stories," a sort of mini-summit session.

New Film Shows People Benefiting from Great Walkway, J.F.K. Promenade

By Roger Rudick | Mar 4, 2022 | No Comments

Filmmakers push back against false narrative that open spaces are for "elites"

Oakland Ends Slow Streets

By Dave Campbell | Feb 16, 2022 | No Comments

The city that pioneered Slow Streets at the start of the pandemic is now cancelling the program. We talk to an activist about future plans to preserve some streets and bring back a more robust version of the program in the future.

Motorist Threatens to Run Over Families on SF Slow Street

By Roger Rudick | Jan 4, 2022 | No Comments

It's barely started and already 2022 is getting nasty

SFMTA Used Design, Education to Encourage Slower and Safer Left Turns

By Melanie Curry | Nov 22, 2021 | No Comments

Forty percent of the traffic deaths in San Francisco in 2019 were caused when drivers made left turns and didn’t see someone in the crosswalk they were heading into until it was too late.

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