Road repair on several streets in San Jose is underway, in conjunction with improving the bike lane network downtown and an upcoming new bike share program.
Downtown San Jose road work will result in better biking – San Jose Mercury News.
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Downtown San Jose road work will result in better biking
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012A $4 million makeover on The Alameda in San Jose is a step closer to reality
Friday, August 5th, 2011Work is moving ahead on establishing a financing district to maintain improvements to The Alameda in San Jose, a segment of the Grand Boulevard that stretches up the peninsula along El Camino Real.
While funding for the improvements has been secured, the City has been looking to the adjacent property owners to fund the maintenance and upkeep once the improvements are in place.
Planned improvements to the street include new lighting, landscaping, and raised medians, along with improved pedestrian safety features such as enhanced crosswalks and sidewalk bulb-outs.
Less traffic, more business in Walnut Creek?
Monday, July 12th, 2010Walnut Creek to study narrowing Mt. Diablo Boulevard from 4 to 2 lanes in downtown in order to provide a better pedestrian environment, along with more street parking and outdoor dining.
Less traffic, more business in Walnut Creek? – ContraCostaTimes.com.
Community Rallies Around Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010A pedestrian-priority shared street is part of the draft vision for Fisherman’s Wharf, a highly-trafficked destination in San Francisco.
Streetsblog San Francisco » Community Rallies Around Fisherman’s Wharf Public Realm Plan.
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010The Institute for Transportation Engineers has released a report on context-sensitive design for walkable urban thoroughfares.
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach, An ITE Recommended Practice.
via Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America.
San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Rendering of cafe seating in place of parking. Image - RG Architects, via Streetsblog.
Matthew Roth at Streetsblog reports on plans to convert parking spaces to cafe seating along Divisadero in San Francisco.
Following up on city experiments with converting street space to plazas, and annual Park(ing) Day, where groups around the world convert parking spaces to mini parks for a day, the city is set to convert two parking spaces in front of a cafe in a matter of weeks, once ongoing road work along Divisadero is completed. Similar to the earlier plazas, the conversion is temporary and does not affect the underlying street infrastructure. This makes it more affordable and allows the space to be converted back to parking if the experiment goes awry for any reason.
See Matthew Roth’s article for more details on the project.
Streetsblog San Francisco » San Francisco Takes Parking Spaces for Trial Sidewalk Extensions.
Columbus Avenue in North Beach may be soon to follow: Cafes get more sidewalk under North Beach plan – San Francisco Chronicle.
Update: Follow-up article in the San Francisco Chronicle. S.F. plazas, ‘parklets’ spout, squeeze out cars.
Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Portland's (Hippodamian) Grid overlaid on a Virtual Earth bird's eye view of Pearl District. The centre lines of streets intersect at 260 foot intervals.
In an editorial on Planetizen, Fanis Grammenos and Douglas Pollard discuss the downside of the small block grid pattern of Portland.
For reasons of land efficiency, infrastructure cost, municipal expenses, rainwater management, traffic safety and flow, and the demand for increased pedestrian share of public space, the praised, pure Portland platting will likely not find new followers.
Full article: Beloved and Abandoned: A Platting Named Portland | Planetizen.
San Francisco Sunday Streets Wraps Up, Until Next Year
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009A number of articles over the weekend discuss the final Sunday Streets of the year, where Ocean Beach was closed to cars from 10 am to 2 pm (prior Sunday Streets this year also took place in The Mission and Waterfront/Bayview neighborhoods), and the Mayor’s announcement that the Sunday Streets series would be expanded next year and become a permanent event.
Life is a Great Highway when streets are closed – San Francisco Chronicle.
Streetsblog San Francisco » Sunday Streets to Become Permanent in San Francisco.
Final San Francisco Sunday Streets of 2009 ! – San Francisco Examiner.
See a video: Streetfilms » San Francisco’s Foggy Sunday Streets 2009.
Rethinking the Street Space: Toolkits and Street Design Manuals
Friday, September 4th, 2009Amber Hawkes and Georgia Sheridan discuss on Planetizen recent street design manuals and toolkits, including those from Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
In the article, they discuss the goals, target audience, approaches, and context of the various examples.
Rethinking the Street Space: Toolkits and Street Design Manuals | Planetizen.
Direct links to the resources discussed:
Seattle – Right-of-Way Improvements Manual.
City of Los Angeles Downtown Design Guide.
Children and Street Safety
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Post by Sarah Goodyear on Streetsblog discusses the effects of car-dominated streets on children’s freedom to explore their neighborhoods.
Streetsblog San Francisco » How Cars Destroy the Wilderness of Childhood .