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@scott@carfree.city
2025-09-15 23:44:27

Ritual Coffee’s parklet has been there for over a decade, but is still considered temporary by the city. A tree planted there 10 years ago could be relatively mature with a large canopy by now. SF needs a path from parklets to permanent spot sidewalk widenings.

Ritual Coffee storefront with boat-like parklet in the parking lane, photographed today.
The same Ritual parklet in a February 2015 Google street view.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-09-15 17:56:29

street art spotted on Valencia

a drawing pasted to a panel on the sidewalk. A hand holding a can opener sticks out the top of a small food can with eyes. It says, the revolution will not be in your feed. Seize the tools of liberation so that we might cast off the yoke of our oppression
@scott@carfree.city
2025-08-09 01:55:55

New Hairball fact sheet just dropped! Coming this year:
- 2-way protected bikeway from Marin to Jerrold (instead of path on sidewalk)
- Raised crosswalk and speed cushion approaching off-ramp crossing
- Road diet on Cesar Chavez under 101
sfmta.com/media/43046/download

Diagram of the Hairball intersection with the near-term improvements described. Also long-term improvements including new sidewalks/crosswalks on the north side of Cesar Chavez east, a protected bikeway on the north side of Cesar Chavez from the path to Hampshire, a raised concrete crosswalk on Bayshore crossing Marin, and curb ramps and signals and a raised crosswalk at the path's crossing of northbound Potrero. A two-way bikeway on the south side of Cesar Chavez east is also marked as part of…
@scott@carfree.city
2025-08-24 16:48:28

many great new protected bike lanes in Minneapolis that I’m admiring while walking to the bus, although when I actually got on a bike just now, my trip took me on E 31st St which is still terrible, rather than any of these

sidewalk level bike lane
two way sidewalk level bike lanes
curb protected two way bike lanes and a diverter that channels car traffic onto a one-way cross street
@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-28 01:19:45

I filled out a bike rack request but it is insane that I have to suggest to my local government—which is supposedly all about promoting Union Square and downtown recovery—that it consider putting any bike racks at all anywhere near an enormous 7-story department store.

Macy’s building on the corner with no bike racks
The Stockton sidewalk fronting Macy’s. Wide open empty space. Plenty of room for bike racks. But there are none
@scott@carfree.city
2025-08-09 03:55:52

what name could we give urban pedestrian paths, that doesn't imply they're secondary and inferior to the road they run parallel to (which I don't like about "sidewalk")?

@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-26 23:25:05

I met a decadeslong Mission resident, a GenXer, earlier this year who was bemused by the idea there was such a thing as a “north Mission” and a “south Mission.”
You know, based on if you’re closer to the 22 or the 48, I said.
But Café de Olla feels south Mission to me even though geographically it’s not, being on 19th Street.

Coffee in an artisanal mug, and a book (Bitter Water Opera), on one of several sidewalk tables with floral tablecloths under an awning, with a crossing of Mission Street visible ahead.
@scott@carfree.city
2025-09-21 03:15:38

glad people are advocating for more tree planting opportunities in sf! if you email, consider asking them for a permit process to plant trees in bulbouts in the parking lane too. this allows for larger tree beds, healthier trees and built in traffic calming and is common in berkeley & santa cruz but currently not permitted in sf!

@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-28 03:08:17

IDEA: on one-way streets, let's make the sidewalks one-way too! To walk in the other direction, you'd first travel one block perpendicularly, to the next street over.
Or maybe that would be ridiculous and we shouldn't do bike lanes that way either? Hard to say