SF News Wow, It’s Now Been Five Whole Years Since JFK Drive Went Car-Free Golden Gate Park's east-west road formerly known as JFK Drive, now known as JFK Promenade, celebrated its five-year anniversary as a car-free thoroughfare with a Sunday party.
SF News Lurie Announces Market Street to Open Up to Waymos The car-free stretch of Market Street east of 10th is going to be somewhat less car-free this summer when it starts getting clogged up with confused Waymos.
SF News Great Highway Walls Vandalized Yet Again, With Angry Graffiti From Apparent Park-Haters Saturday night was the second time since the Great Highway closed that its concrete walls were defaced with graffiti, this time with misspelled messages of “gentriffy” and “Your bringing trouble.”
SF News Friday Is the Last Day for Cars on the Great Highway, But a New Lawsuit Hopes to Bring Cars Back Just days before the Great Highway is set to become a full-time car-free zone, a new lawsuit is trying to hit the brakes on the car-free conversion, saying that last November’s Prop K vote was unlawfully placed on the ballot.
Arts & Entertainment Here’s Some of the Artwork That May Be Coming to the Car-Free Great Highway Park Once cars are banished from the Great Highway in 2025 and a two-mile stretch of the highway becomes a public park, here are a few art installations that Rec and Parks is proposing for the new open space.
SF News Prop K Has Passed, Whether Sunset District Residents Like It or Not An SF debate that’s been raging since early in the pandemic has just been settled at the ballot box, as a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway will indeed go car-free, because the measure Prop K now has enough votes to pass.
SF Politics Car Lovers Holding ‘Car Rally’ Thursday To Protest Car-Free Great Highway Plan Some people are not fans of the car-free Great Highway proposal slated for SF’s November ballot, and they’re organizing a car caravan Thursday morning to honk their displeasure at the idea.
SF News That One Block of Hayes Street Will Remain Car-Free for Another Year, But With Scaled-Back Hours A very small car-free street plan just got smaller, as the SFMTA voted this week to keep one block of Hayes Street car-free on the weekends, but with much more limited car-free hours.
SF News Weekend Car-Free Hayes Street Extended, as City Backtracks on Plans To Cancel It The block of Hayes Street between Gough and Octavia Streets will stay car-free on weekends for at least another month, as merchants successfully lobby the city to back off a hastily announced cancellation.
SF News Great Highway Will Now Remain Car-Free (On Weekends) Through 2025 The current status quo of the Great Highway being car-free on weekends and holidays is now set in stone, or until the end of 2025 at least, as the SF Board of Supervisors voted on a three-year extension of the program.
SF News Permanent Sunday Streets-Style Street Park Being Proposed for the Tenderloin It could be Sunday Streets every day on the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue, as a coalition of volunteer groups and nonprofits continues pushing for a plan to close that street to car traffic and make it a permanent playground.
SF News Photos: Hundreds Participate in Critical Mass Ride Through San Francisco on Its 30th Anniversary On Thursday, cyclists began gearing up for the 30th-anniversary ride of Critical Mass — a controversial rally that's been held on the last Friday of every month since 1992 in San Francisco. Yesterday, hundreds landed on SF streets to make a case for a more cycling-friendly city.
SF Politics Disability Advocate and de Young Museum Pursue Ballot Measure to Reverse Car-Free JFK The JFK Promenade could get railroaded less than six months after it was officially declared permanently car-free, with a signature drive now underway for a ballot measure to bring cars back to JFK Drive.
SF News Car-Free JFK Drive Gets Boost From Rec & Parks Report, Will Ultimately Be Up to Supes A new report from the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department strongly recommends that the city make JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park permanently free of vehicle traffic, and following a hearing on the proposal Thursday, the ball is in the Board of Supervisors' court.
SF News SF Dad Starts ‘Bike Bus’ of Kids Riding to School, It Swells to Several Dozen In Size Inspired by a similar “bicibús” ride in Barcelona, a pro-slow-streets group has created a pint-sized Critical Mass bike ride for kids pedaling to school en masse.
SF News Two Blocks on Valencia Street Go Car-Free This Weekend To Celebrated Success Amid the pandemic, SF's Slow Streets have helped usher in a superb notion: less-congested roads given back to the people is a win-win situation for pedestrians and motorists. Valencia Street's closure this weekend between 16th and 17th, and between 18th and 19th streets is proof of that idea.
SF News Car-Free Market Street Plan Could Spread to Valencia Street, Too The SFMTA chair gave a full-throated endorsement to banning cars on Valencia Street too, though other Muni honchos prefer to walk that back to just a few blocks of the corridor.
misc Photos: First Sunday Streets of 2010 First off, we apologize for not giving you all a heads-up about the first Sunday Streets that happened yesterday at Embarcadero. It totally went under our radar. But according to Streetsblog, it was
Arts & Entertainment Sunday Streets to Become Permanent in 2010 This weekend's final Sunday Streets of the year was a big success despite the fog. On Friday, Streetsblog reported Mayor Newsom's announcement that Sunday Streets will become a permanent event starting in 2010
SF News Carless Sunday to be Carless Market Street? Also, as you all know, driving down Market Street is kinda impossible, so why not? Lining up against the idea, natch, are merchants along Market Street who fear that the closure's will hurt
