[Carfreeliving] greenways and SF streets

[Jason Henderson]

I have been thinking about the presentation last Tuesday by Marshall 
Foster at TLC and the questions after his brief talk. The problem is 
inherently spatial and it is "either or." Either car space OR green 
space/ped space/bicycle space. The city is not on the Kansas prairie or 
Houston, where you can sprawl out as far as you want and widen widen 
widen. (Not that they should be doing that, but it does make it easier 
to deal with space)

Has anyone in SF ever proposed converting the two-way streets such as 
Buchanan and Laguna (the one's I live on or near), and throughout the 
city, into narrow one-way streets? These streets would continue to have 
on-street parking on both sides, but just one less travel lane 
(effectively). That way you could narrow the street and create space for 
trees, benches, dog poo zones, and so on.
It would likely make them safer for all users as well -provided they 
included bike space. Peds would have easier crossings. Motorists would 
not have speeders flying right at them weaving around double parked 
cars. Might also discourage double parking because if a car is double 
parked, it really does block another motorist, and that would get DPT 
right out.

Do this all over the city and we get a huge amount of "greening" and 
other mutal goals.

If this has already been proposed and shot down,why?

-jh

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Jason Henderson
San Francisco CA
(415)-255-8136
jhenders at sbcglobal.net
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