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Market Street Bike Count Off to a Record-Breaking Start in 2015
Image: SFMTA/EcoCounter The Market Street bike counter tallied 97,302 people rolling by in March — the highest monthly total yet. Last year, the monthly count rose steadily until October, so bike...
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Tomorrow: Support a Safer Upper Market With Protected Bike Lanes
A view from the bike lane at Market at 16th Street. Photo: Aaron Bialick The SFMTA will hold an open house tomorrow on bike and pedestrian safety upgrades along upper Market Street, which could...
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Tomorrow: Support Car Restrictions for a Safer Market, Which Uber Opposes
Image: SFMTA You can email public comments on the “Safer Market Street” car restrictions to the SFMTA board at MTABoard@sfmta.com. The SFMTA Board of Directors is set to vote tomorrow on whether to...
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SFMTA Bucks Uber, Bans Private Autos From Turning On to Mid-Market Street
Uber’s Wayne Ting told the SFMTA board the company opposed “preferential treatment” for taxis on Market Street. Video screenshot from Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/YouTube Private auto drivers will be...
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Record-Breaking Bike Traffic on Market Street Neared 100,000 in July
Image: SFMTA/EcoCounter Record-breaking bicycle traffic on Market Street nearly broke the 100,000 threshold in July, according to the bike counter on SF’s most heavily-pedaled thoroughfare. Last...
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Signs of Lax Enforcement of Car Restrictions on Market Street
SFMTA parking control officers posted to instruct drivers not to turn on to Market at Eighth Street. Photo: Aaron Bialick Nearly two weeks in, the bans preventing private auto drivers from turning on...
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In 1954, Turning Market Street Into a Parking Lot Seemed Like a Good Idea
How some envisioned a “better Market Street” in 1954. Image via SFMTA In an alternate universe, the streetcar tracks that line the center of Market Street would have become car parking. That was an...
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A Jug-handle for Sansome/Market Intersection?
Bicycle and safe-streets advocate Paul Valdez put this back on our radar–the Sansome/Sutter/Market intersection remains a deathtrap of buses, bikes, trucks, and pedestrians, all vying for space. But,...
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SPUR Talk: Flowers and Butterflies on Market Street
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Commentary: ‘Car Free’ Market Street isn’t Car Free
The headline in the San Francisco Standard story “‘Doom loop’ cure? Mark Farrell calls for bringing cars back to Market Street” is just wrong. Nobody can bring cars back to Market Street because they...
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