tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6257404348022746862024-03-13T10:00:26.053-07:00Great Second StreetDbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-90384091348693166182015-08-12T10:47:00.001-07:002015-08-19T21:54:49.130-07:00VICTORY! The EIR was certified at the SF Planning Commission, and the
SFMTA Board approved the design. On to construction in 2016!<h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Great Second Street Goes to the SF Planning Commission Thursday afternoon August 13th 2015 for certification of the Enviromental Impact Report, and then the week after, August 18th, to the SFMTA Board for approval of the parking and traffic changes.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">For the past four years, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, Public Works, and the Planning Department have been working closely with the SoMa community and Walk SF members to develop plans to address both pedestrian safety and walkability needs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Now, an ideal plan is being proposed for your review and approval. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">As more people live, work, and play in SoMa, the City must build safer, more efficient and more sustainable </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">streets</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">. The </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Second</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Street</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Improvement</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> Project does all of this and demonstrates how even SoMa's traffic-choked roads can be re-designed to support San Francisco's Vision Zero goal to end all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2024.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Second</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Street</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Improvement</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> Project includes widened sidewalks, pedestrian-friendly lighting, safer crossings (including left-turn restrictions and the elimination of the right turn lanes at Harrison and </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Second</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">), enhanced landscaping, ADA-compliant curb ramps, and a cycle track for people biking. It</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> will create a more attractive public realm and enhance the economic vitality of the corridor by attracting foot traffic, as well as minimize transit delays, and create a separated bicycle lane to increase safety for everyone who travels here.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sign the WalkSF petition in support of the Vision Zero pedestrian improvements at <a href="http://walksf.org/take-action/vision-zero/advocacy-alert/">http://walksf.org/take-action/vision-zero/advocacy-alert/</a></span><br>
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<br>Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-59190855471314932142015-04-07T09:25:00.000-07:002015-04-14T15:56:20.547-07:00Carmageddon Comes to Second Street!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's getting crazier out there as drivers try to make their way onto the Bay Bridge during weekday rush hours from 3 to 6pm. There is no doubt that this is a very challenging traffic situation, often approaching "gridlock." While alleviating the gridlock will involve a comprehensive program of enhanced transit and (dis)incentives, keeping crosswalks clear is essential for sustaining a basic quality of life in the neighborhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The <a href="http://www.greatsecondstreet.org/2012/05/barnes-dance.html" target="_blank">Barnes Dance</a> crossing offers an ideal solution. By stopping all traffic to allow walkers to cross in all six directions at once, this approach offers the greatest level of pedestrian safety while ends the vicious (and frankly pointless) cycle of drivers blocking the intersection to keep other cars from blocking them. Making streets safer for people while reducing the anxiety of those in cars: Everybody wins. Watch</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> the movie <a href="https://vimeo.com/124179683" target="_blank">Carmageddon on Second Street</a> on Vimeo.</span><br />
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The SF Department of Public works produced these before and after digital visualizations of Second Street's preferred design which is currently making it's way through the CEQUA process. The design features raised and protected cycle tracks, similar to the type used widely in Copenhagen. This sort of first rate cycling improvement is justified because Second Street is a critical part of the City's cycle route network, connecting downtown to the Giant's Stadium, Central Waterfront, and Blue Green Way. Besides raising property values this will be much safer for pedestrians and cyclists. It's been in process for over 10 years, and is scheduled to be completed in 2016.<br />
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Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-3884051076702256822014-04-19T09:02:00.001-07:002014-04-22T15:03:00.404-07:00Super Sharrows Coming to Second Street<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the early years of this millennium the San Francisco MTA invented a new type of bike symbol: The <b>sharrow. </b> It sounds simple, but it was a major task to do the research and experiments to see if these things actually did any good and then to take the documentation to the U.S. Traffic Symbol Gods. Eventually <b>sharrows</b> were officially blessed, and many have been painted to designate bicycle routes that can't—or don't yet—have dedicated bike lanes or cycle tracks. Second Street was actually a pilot route in this early research, which can be seen in the few faded <b>sharrows</b> still visible on some blocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More recently in collaboration with the national Green Lane Project (<a href="http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project">www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project</a>), the next generation was rolled out. Introducing the <b>super sharrow</b>, which adds a beautiful rectangle of reflective safety green paint underneath the iconic symbol. These are highly visible and quite effective in getting motorists to be more mindful of bicycles.The SFMTA recently added <b>super sharrows</b> down the length of Market Street at about 60-foot intervals. They help by reminding motorists to respect the vulnerable road user and that—most importantly—<b>bikes belong</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the urging of Supervisor Jane Kim, the SFMTA has committed to adding <b>super sharrows</b> to Second Street as an interim step toward final safety improvements. The installation date has yet to be determined.</span><br />
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<br />Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-38202990199437463562014-04-05T10:36:00.000-07:002014-04-05T10:44:55.197-07:00More Bikes on Second Street!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does it seem like you see more urban cyclists on Second Street? The <b>2013 SFMTA Bike Count</b> confirms this: from 2011 to 2013 there has been a 35% increase in cycling on Second, one of the largest jumps of any corridor in San Francisco. This is not anecdotal: these counts are just that, real time data. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is with zero physical improvement to the bicycle infrastructure on the major bicycle route.</span><br />
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<br />Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com02nd Street, San Francisco, CA, USA37.7850777 -122.3961302999999837.7348887 -122.47681129999998 37.835266700000005 -122.31544929999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-82637252107166600172013-11-06T17:04:00.000-08:002013-11-06T17:35:46.994-08:002nd Street Supporters Meet Up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello again! It has been about 6 months since we last met at the 4th <a href="http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1489&org=451&lvl=1&ite=4523&lea=2489058&ctr=0&par=1">2nd Street community meeting</a> in May. Thank you to everyone who came out and voiced the importance for a safer 2nd Street, supported the proposed design (<a href="http://www.sfdpw.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=3319&org=451&lvl=1&ite=4523&lea=2489058&ctr=0&par=1">full design</a>), and most importantly represented what is the BIGGER picture: a corridor that pedestrians, cyclists, transit and automobiles can utilize happily and together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the huge amount of work we have all put into this project over many years, this exciting new vision for 2nd Street is still far from assured. It's crucial that we keep the pressure on the City to vote for the better design option - Sharrows are not enough for 2nd Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please join us, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and your fellow 2nd Street supporters for an after work meet up. Let's share a drink (non-alcoholic available) and chat about how to ensure that the City votes for the best design to ultimately make 2nd Street GREAT. </span></div>
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Next Wednesday, November 28th, the San Francisco Department of Public Works, Municipal Transportation Agency, and City Planning will host a third and final community meeting for the Second Street Improvement Project. Over the course of the previous community meetings and a number of online surveys, we, the community, selected one-way cycletracks as the best option for a bicycle facility on Second Street. This meeting will discuss the proposed conceptual design in detail and provide the opportunity for questions and answers.</div>
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<b>Location:</b> CBS Interactive, 235 2<sup>nd</sup> Street. <b>Enter via Tehama Street, just east of 2<sup>nd</sup> Street.<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-62618060505230597932012-10-02T21:59:00.000-07:002012-10-02T21:59:16.495-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-kSbzbM5PeBlME2TOJMJW41AIufQY7T45gfEZ6MW_m9xzGxrsKVTKrA5j3gaN_n50lnotRL_SE1RmhjY_MlrhoCnh1Upe5OAgvcCDllS9Ffkjq7dU1mnyhUeBtfkHO3stthtExeUrU8/s1600/Second-Street-Streetscape-Improvement-Project-Diagram.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-kSbzbM5PeBlME2TOJMJW41AIufQY7T45gfEZ6MW_m9xzGxrsKVTKrA5j3gaN_n50lnotRL_SE1RmhjY_MlrhoCnh1Upe5OAgvcCDllS9Ffkjq7dU1mnyhUeBtfkHO3stthtExeUrU8/s640/Second-Street-Streetscape-Improvement-Project-Diagram.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I would like to thank you on behalf of San Francisco’s Department of Public Works, the Municipal Transportation Agency and Department of City Planning for attending the Second Street Improvement Project meeting on Thursday September 20, 2012. The meeting was a huge success and the feedback provided by the community is invaluable in determining the future vision for 2<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup>nd</sup></span> Street.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">At the meeting several of you filled out a survey providing us feedback on design elements you would like included in the final design concept and their order of preference. However, since some neighbors and merchants were not able to attend the meeting, we would like to extend the survey to residents and merchants for their review and comments. We are extending the survey period until Friday October 12, 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">We have posted the presentation materials and a brief comparison of the design options on the project website. Please feel free to forward the link to any neighbors that might be interested in providing the Project Team with feedback. Thank you. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Lastly, I’m including a link to an article that ran this past weekend regarding the upcoming Second Street Improvement Project. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/place/article/Repaving-2nd-Street-revamping-traffic-3905515.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/<wbr></wbr>place/article/Repaving-2nd-<wbr></wbr>Street-revamping-traffic-<wbr></wbr>3905515.php</u></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Alex M. Murillo</span><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: small;">, </span><span style="color: #783f04;">Department of Public Works</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: small;">Office of Communications and Public Affairs<br />1680 Mission Street, 1st Floor | San Francisco, CA 94103<br />Tel. <a href="tel:%28415%29%20437-7009" target="_blank" value="+14154377009">(415) 437-7009</a> | Cell <a href="tel:%28415%29%20627-8106" target="_blank" value="+14156278106">(415) 627-8106</a><br />Email: </span><a href="mailto:Alex.M.Murillo@sfdpw.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Alex.M.Murillo@sfdpw.org</u></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We're supporting the One Way Cycle Tracks option as the best for pedestrians and street greening, particularly in front of the ClockTower Lofts. I addition we think not widening the sidewalks on both sides of the street (currently SF DPW proposed widening only the western, shady side because of an undetermined cost to underground the power on the crowded, sunny, eastern side) for the three blocks from Harrison to Townsend is missing a huge once in a generation opportunity to do this right. You could write that in the feedback form if you agree...</span></div>
Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-47353734941165512442012-09-06T13:54:00.000-07:002012-09-06T13:54:04.906-07:00Come to the second Community Meeting Thursday, September 20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-68235175388380492342012-06-25T19:47:00.001-07:002012-09-06T12:06:21.511-07:00[2.1] MORE CYCLE TRACKS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Protected bicycle lanes are great to ride on, and give pedestrians, cyclists, and cars their own space. They also provide space for larger trees than are possible with narrow sidewalks alone.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first of these at Castro and 17th Street transformed that intersection into a vital pedestrian space. Originally built in a month with a super low budget this has become a permanent park and is being upgraded with more robust materials.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This first success has been followed by other spaces such as Guerrero Park on San Jose Avenue and Showplace triangle where 8th and 16th streets meet.</span><br />
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</div>Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-62453433082244779312012-05-22T11:13:00.001-07:002012-09-06T12:08:14.228-07:00[C] POPOS: 601 FOLSOM PLAZA<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This barren plaza at Second and Folsom Street was built in 1965 entirely of the same brick. It was designed by MBT as part of the AT&T switch-gear windowless high-rise that looms over and often shades the plaza. The original abstract design was modified later with more not quite matching brick to incorporate more seating and add skateboard defensive devices, but it's not entirely successful from either a design or use perspective. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two rows of Plane trees along Folsom Street are the only greenery. More planting might help it attract more people. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is open 24/7.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are two intersections on Second where this might make sense: at Bryant and at Harrison. Both these intersections have a lot of turning, are very unpleasant to walk across, and have high pedestrian accident rates including a fatality at Harrison.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The SFCTA (SF County Transportation Agency) is doing a Bay Bridge congestion study which will make recommendations on how to deal with the rush hour gridlock. It's a challenge since the Bay Bridge is at capacity during rush hour so the congestion comes primarily from queuing, or storing, cars that will eventually get on the Bridge. No amount of tow-away lanes or turn lanes or even additional </span><span class="il" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">traffic</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> lanes will get any cars on the Bay Bridge any faster. The current design tries to solve for less than 10% of the hours a week, and it fails miserably. The other 90% of the time it makes for an unfriendly, and downright dangerous, pedestrian and cyclist experience. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Northern Europe cycling has been prioritized as a sustainable and efficient mode of transportation. They have invented a type of bike lane that is truly suitable for riders from 8 to 80 years old: the Cycle Track. Think of a regular A</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">merican bicycle lane, but it sits next to sidewalk and is protected from the motorized vehicle lanes with bollards, a curb, or even a row of parked cars. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In San Francisco the SFMTA has started to implement</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buffered Bicycle Lanes, our own version of the Cycle Track. A couple of blocks on Market started it off, and cyclists loved it. Recently Cargo Way and JFK Drive have had protected bikeways added as well.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jan Gehl, the wonderful Danish architect and urban planner, sums up a key advantage of putting the bikes inside the parking lane: the row of parked cars protects the cyclists, instead of having the cyclists protect the parked cars. The other benefit for cyclists is that it's difficult to double park in the cycle track, eliminating a common source of conflict. Meanwhile, drivers, too, are finding that the separation provides a level of clarity that makes it easier to share the road with cyclists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second Street is wide enough for cycle tracks. The sketch above shows how this might be implemented. The city initially could define the lane with paint, but the buffer </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ultimately</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">could have trees and permeable paving to further green the street. There are traffic engineering challenges at the intersections, but one of the positives of Second Street is that there are relatively few driveways that have to penetrate through the cycle track.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>The City showed real commitment to making this a genuine community process at this meeting. The turnout was great, both neighbors and the City Family: SFMTA, DPW, and our District 6 elected Jane Kim. Though the design charrette was necessarily simplified, dealing only with the two typical street sections of Second Street, it allowed priorities to come through clearly: pedestrian safety, better cycling, and a strategy to calm the Bay Bridge congestion. Kudo's to our hard working and smart folks who serve our City: most of them really get it.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>To come will be the difficult task of translating this community feedback into a comprehensive design that has many challenges in dividing road capacity fairly between all the users. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04;"><b>There was a nice article on the meeting on SF.STREETSBLOG.org: <a href="http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/05/04/protected-bike-lanes-ped-safety-top-priorities-for-second-street-neighbors/#more-282530">http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/05/04/protected-bike-lanes-ped-safety-top-priorities-for-second-street-neighbors/#more-282530</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Second Street is seven blocks long, and 4 of those blocks have 15 foot wide sidewalks, the width recommended by San Francisco's Better Streets Plan. The 3 blocks in the middle have 10 foot wide sidewalks, which doesn't make them a great pedestrian experience, creates huge pedestrian congestion on Giants game days, and restricts the size of street trees. Planning for 15 foot wide sidewalks the length of Second Street would be a huge step towards making Second Street great.</span><br />
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<br />Dbarchitecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599255884637899728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-625740434802274686.post-86591265114921454832012-03-27T12:42:00.001-07:002012-05-30T04:36:02.975-07:00BETTER STREETS PLAN: PEDESTRIANS and SUSTAINABILITY FIRST<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SFMTA now has a clear vision of what a better city street should be: a critical public space asset as well as an essential conduit of mobility. The Better Streets Plan lays out a comprehensive tool kit for making our streets great, starting with a preferred sidewalk width of 15 feet. Second Street has 10 foot sidewalks for three of its seven blocks. Widening this stretch between Harrison and Townsend would have a huge beneficial effect, bringing it up to the Green Connector status of the rest of Second Street, which already enjoys the enhanced pedestrian environment made possible by 15-foot-wide sidewalks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The intersections of Second and Harrison and Bryant are unpleasant and dangerous to cross (see injury and fatality information in a previous post <a href="http://www.greatsecondstreet.org/2012/03/pedestrian-down-second-bryant.html">pedestrian-down-second-bryant</a>). Here sidewalk extensions would shorten crossing distances for pedestrians and slow motor-vehicles, making these intersections safer. The Better Streets Plan also calls for extensive greening using street trees and sustainable storm water planters that filter street runoff while making the street more pleasant to walk on. Safer, more beautiful streets, who wouldn’t want that?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cut destroyed Rincon Hill as a fashionable residential district.</span></td></tr>
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