Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Outside.in tracks local news
I've just begun experimenting with a service from Outside.in that looks like a promising way to track truly local things that are getting talked about, blogged about, appear in news stories etc.
Check it out, and if you're blogging you might consider registering your blog so its automatically monitored for geotagging things local (Precita Park, Valencia Cyclery, Tartine... you name it).
Interesting side bar: if you Googlemap "cesar chavez street, sf, ca" it places you at its terminus - Noe St and Cesar Chavez. If on the other hand, you Googlemap "army street, sf, ca" it does a pretty good job of placing you at the locus, more or less, of the street in question.
Check it out, and if you're blogging you might consider registering your blog so its automatically monitored for geotagging things local (Precita Park, Valencia Cyclery, Tartine... you name it).
Interesting side bar: if you Googlemap "cesar chavez street, sf, ca" it places you at its terminus - Noe St and Cesar Chavez. If on the other hand, you Googlemap "army street, sf, ca" it does a pretty good job of placing you at the locus, more or less, of the street in question.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Links for Cesar Chavez bike lane planning
Here are a few links to facts, organizations and opinions on the proposed re-working of Cesar Chavez Street to accomodate bikes:
SF Planning Dept: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/planning/City_Design_Group/CDG_mission_cesarchavez.htm
SFMTA - the central government authority responsible for overseeing the review process for the Bike Plan:
http://sfmta.com/bikeplan
SF Bicycle Coalition - the most visible and influential community advocacy group for bike safety and bike lane planning in SF:
http://www.sfbike.org
CC Puede - is a neighborhood coalition asking the city to improve pedestrian, biker, and citizen safety around Cesar Chavez Street, among other livability related issues:
http://www.ccpuede.org
SF Planning Dept: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/planning/City_Design_Group/CDG_mission_cesarchavez.htm
SFMTA - the central government authority responsible for overseeing the review process for the Bike Plan:
http://sfmta.com/bikeplan
SF Bicycle Coalition - the most visible and influential community advocacy group for bike safety and bike lane planning in SF:
http://www.sfbike.org
CC Puede - is a neighborhood coalition asking the city to improve pedestrian, biker, and citizen safety around Cesar Chavez Street, among other livability related issues:
http://www.ccpuede.org
Mission Streetscape and Cesar Chavez Design Workshop #1 - May 28th
There's an event on Wed May 28th that you may want to attend if you live or work in/around the Mission and Cesar Chavez corridor.
Mission Streetscape Plan
Mission Streetscape Plan
Mission Streetscape and Cesar Chavez Design Workshop #1
Wednesday, May 28, from 6:30 - 9:00pm
Cesar Chavez Elementary School
825 Shotwell Street (at 22nd Street)
For more info: www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/planning/City_Design_Group/CDG_mission_streetscape.htm
And for the Cesar Chavez Street design: http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/planning/City_Design_Group/CDG_mission_cesarchavez.htm
Friday, May 23, 2008
To Ride or To Drive? (or both?)
Whether you ride the streets of SF religiously, or take motorized transportation to get around town (and out to the freeways) you should be aware that there is a petition and analysis and proposal currently underway to study adding bike lanes on Cesar Chavez St. Residents of the Mission, Noe valley, Bernal Hts, and Twin Peaks who rely on the Cesar Chavez corridor to get cross town all have a chance to weigh in.
I intend for this site to be used as a place for SF citizens to voice their collective opinions on the bike lane proposals. This is not a one-sided mouthpiece you will see from the bike coalition nor is it an effort to stop the bike lanes. There are some really interesting ideas circulating; some of the drafts that I saw for the first time last night at a review meeting on 3rd St are really intriguing (adding turning lanes to Cesar Chavez for example).
In the coming weeks I plan to update links, add a sign up form, and post other related news about the planning process. For starters, here's a link to SFBike http://www.sfbike.org/?cesarchavez who've done an extraordinary job the past 15 years working with the city overseeing a network of bike lanes, such as those on Valencia St.
This is a chance to make your voice heard and affect the livability of the city. The streets of San Francisco are perpetually being reconsidered and reconfigured to make the city more usable/safe/healthy, often at the urging and action of local citizens. Whether that street modification is greeted with glee or gloom depends of course, on your point of view! A stop sign got added to slow traffic in front of your residence because the neighbors and city agreed it would calm traffic. A victory for you and pedestrians at that corner no doubt. But talk to the delivery driver who routinely takes this route because it previously offered a relatively uninterrupted flow of traffic, or the mom who carpools to school and has timed her pickups around the most efficient route. You might get a different story. And what about the effects of all those people applying their brakes, and releasing brake lining particles, a noticeably burning odor and general pollution at that intersection in a concentrated plume? How do we factor those consequences into an objective analysis of the benefits of an ostensibly slam-dunk safe choice? These are the things that should go into any thoughtful, reasoned analysis and decision. Bike lanes in general are great, safe and get a lot of use in SF. I personally use the bike lanes weekly so am a huge fan. And yet I am also a car owner, with kids, so there are times when I have to use the car in and out of town. I have winced at poorly experiments like roundabouts in the lower-haight, or more permanent fixtures like no-right turns onto the Octavia St on-ramp from Market St. which inadvertently has imperiled biker safety. So let's hear all opinions!
Finally, regardless of your stance on bike lanes, or the Cesar Chavez question in particular, thanks for being a caring and contributing citizen!
I intend for this site to be used as a place for SF citizens to voice their collective opinions on the bike lane proposals. This is not a one-sided mouthpiece you will see from the bike coalition nor is it an effort to stop the bike lanes. There are some really interesting ideas circulating; some of the drafts that I saw for the first time last night at a review meeting on 3rd St are really intriguing (adding turning lanes to Cesar Chavez for example).
In the coming weeks I plan to update links, add a sign up form, and post other related news about the planning process. For starters, here's a link to SFBike http://www.sfbike.org/?cesarchavez who've done an extraordinary job the past 15 years working with the city overseeing a network of bike lanes, such as those on Valencia St.
This is a chance to make your voice heard and affect the livability of the city. The streets of San Francisco are perpetually being reconsidered and reconfigured to make the city more usable/safe/healthy, often at the urging and action of local citizens. Whether that street modification is greeted with glee or gloom depends of course, on your point of view! A stop sign got added to slow traffic in front of your residence because the neighbors and city agreed it would calm traffic. A victory for you and pedestrians at that corner no doubt. But talk to the delivery driver who routinely takes this route because it previously offered a relatively uninterrupted flow of traffic, or the mom who carpools to school and has timed her pickups around the most efficient route. You might get a different story. And what about the effects of all those people applying their brakes, and releasing brake lining particles, a noticeably burning odor and general pollution at that intersection in a concentrated plume? How do we factor those consequences into an objective analysis of the benefits of an ostensibly slam-dunk safe choice? These are the things that should go into any thoughtful, reasoned analysis and decision. Bike lanes in general are great, safe and get a lot of use in SF. I personally use the bike lanes weekly so am a huge fan. And yet I am also a car owner, with kids, so there are times when I have to use the car in and out of town. I have winced at poorly experiments like roundabouts in the lower-haight, or more permanent fixtures like no-right turns onto the Octavia St on-ramp from Market St. which inadvertently has imperiled biker safety. So let's hear all opinions!
Finally, regardless of your stance on bike lanes, or the Cesar Chavez question in particular, thanks for being a caring and contributing citizen!
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