Arts & Entertainment Page Slow Street Gets Sweet New Public Parklet, First One in SF That’s Fully Open to the Public SF’s new completely public parklet has opened on Page Street near Golden Gate Park, as that designated Slow Street gets a public parklet with benches, plants, and a tiny free library.
SF News SFMTA Touts That Slow Streets Have Seen 50% Drop In Traffic Collisions, No Traffic Deaths A new analysis of SF’s Slow Streets program shows that people are still driving too fast on many of them, but they’ve also enjoyed a nearly 50% reduction in traffic accidents, and there have been no traffic fatalities on any Slow Streets.
SF News The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.
SF News SFMTA Makes 16 Slow Streets Permanent, Including the Humongously Controversial Slow Lake Street A full 16 so-called Slow Streets became permanent after a Tuesday night SFMTA board vote, though a dozen others will lose their Slow Street status, and six hours of public comment furor swayed the board to keep the Richmond’s Lake Street a Slow Street.
SF News After Pedestrian Fatality In Sunset, Twitter-Famous Muni Driver Slams Supervisor Mar For Scaling Back Slow Streets When a Monday pedestrian death brought grievances from the district’s supervisor Gordon Mar, Mar himself took some grief from a local Twitter celebrity over shutting down Slow Streets in the Sunset.
SF Politics Is Mayor Breed Trying to Finish Off SF’s Slow Streets? Recent Developments Raise Questions Breed’s out-of-the-blue announcement that the Slow Streets Program “needs to evolve,” combined with some sudden unexpected restrictions on a popular Slow Street, indicate City Hall may be pushing for a U-turn on the Slow Streets Program.
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 Friday Morning’s ‘Bike Bus’ Drew More Than 100 Kids and Parents, and May Start a New Monthly Cycle One dad’s vision has turned into a pedal-powered Critical Mass for kids, as the second iteration drew more than triple the number than last month’s morning bike meetup.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFTMA Makes Four 'Slow Streets' Permanent The SFMTA just voted to make four "Slow Streets" permanent including part of Golden Gate Avenue, the Dixie Fire is now in the state's 10 largest ever, and Trump is still trying to keep Congress from seeing his tax returns.
Arts & Entertainment Block-Long Mural By Local Artist Amos Goldbaum Completed on Noe Valley Street A mural on one of SF's Slow Streets — a block of Sanchez Street in Noe Valley between 24th and Elizabeth streets — now has a very tall/long new mural that is best viewed via drone.