Aaron Bialick
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
Recent Posts
Bay Area Bike Share to Expand Tenfold By 2017
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Bay Area Bike Share will expand to a 7,000-bike system over the next two years and venture into Oakland, Berkeley, and Emeryville. San Francisco’s system will dramatically increase to 4,500 bikes, and San Jose’s will expand to 1,000. The mayors of all five cities announced the expansion today along with Motivate, the system’s operator (formerly known as […]
New Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf: “Time to Re-Envision Our Roads”
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New Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf showed promise as an executive with a smart vision for her city’s streets at the annual kick-off party for Young Professionals in Transportation’s SF Bay chapter last week. In an interview at the event with Sam Greenspan of the podcast 99% Invisible, Schaaf said “it’s time we re-envision how we […]
TransAlt’s Noah Budnick Named New Executive Director of SF Bike Coalition
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Transportation Alternatives Policy Director Noah Budnick has been named the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s new executive director, the SFBC announced today. Budnick will succeed Leah Shahum, who will step down after 12 years leading the organization. Budnick has built a strong national reputation among livable streets advocates in his 14 years at TA. The SFBC […]
Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker Bankrolls Free Parking Ballot Initiative in SF
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Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook and a major contributor to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, has spent $49,000 of his personal fortune to propel a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine free parking as city policy, according to the SF Chronicle. Parker gave $100,000 to Lee’s mayoral campaign in 2011. The ballot initiative, which proponents frame as an […]
Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall
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When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]
Donald Shoup Breaks Down Two Years of Data From Groundbreaking SFpark
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Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark. “The biggest surprise I got was that prices went up and down, but overall, they stayed the same. The average price actually declined by 1 percent,” said […]
The San Francisco DA’s Double Standard on Traffic Justice
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On the morning of March 29 last year, Chris Bucchere biked through a crowded crosswalk in San Francisco’s Mission District, striking 71-year-old Sutchi Hui, who died of his injuries four days later. As should be the case for any traffic fatality, SF District Attorney George Gascón spent considerable time building a case — collecting GPS data and […]
SF Mayor’s Advisor: “Let’s Be San Francisco and Take Down the Freeway”
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The idea of removing the northern section of Highway 280 near Mission Bay in San Francisco is gaining more traction as planners look for ideal ways to usher in high-speed rail and transit-oriented development in the city’s core. At a forum held by the San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association last Thursday, Mayor Ed Lee’s transportation […]
In San Francisco, Victims of Traffic Violence Don’t Have Equal Protection
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Editor’s note: As the prosecution of cyclist Chris Bucchere, accused of manslaughter for fatally striking pedestrian Sutchi Hui, has drawn national attention, we thought this story would be of interest to our New York readers. SF District Attorney George Gascón is set to bring felony vehicular manslaughter charges against Chris Bucchere later today for biking […]
Nightmare on Oak Street: Couple Harassed While Biking, Blamed By SFPD
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[Editor’s note: We had to share this story out of Streetsblog SF with our New York readers. As badly as NYPD bungles crash investigations, they hardly have a monopoly on mishandling traffic cases.] On their ride home from a Valentine’s Day dinner, Ian Long and Johanna Weaver were harassed by an angry driver and allegedly […]
SFPark Manager: Too Early to Evaluate Groundbreaking Parking Program
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It’s too soon in the development of SFPark to draw any conclusions about the effectiveness of demand-responsive pricing on parking habits, says the SFMTA’s Jay Primus, who manages the SFPark program. Primus got in touch yesterday when the Streetsblog Network highlighted a blog post from Michael Perkins at Greater Greater Washington which claimed that the results of the […]