STREETFILMS: As New York Starts ‘Open Streets,’ Let’s Look at How Oakland Does It
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We're not reinventing the wheel. We're just slowing it down. And here's what it might look like.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Oakland
Live from Oakland: Mayor de Blasio is Wrong About Bay Area City’s Open Streets Success
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Our Streetsblog San Francisco correspondent Roger Rudick has the whole story — complete with pictures showing the mayor flat-out lied about the East Bay experiment.
Mr. Mayor, You’re a Smart Guy, So Why Do You Wrongly Think Cops Must ‘Enforce’ Open Space?
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The mayor said that car-free streets are "dangerous" places that must be "enforced by the NYPD."
Neighborhoods, BIDs to Mayor: We Don’t Need Your Cops — Let Us Open Streets Ourselves!
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In spite of (or perhaps because of) the mayor, focus has started shifting to Broadway in Manhattan.
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 […]