#upper market

[bestdressedsidewalks]

Lonesome cowboy. Upper Market. July 29, 2015.

[jamisonwieser]

Making bike lanes safer can sometimes be as simple as swapping them with the parking lane to create a buffer from moving traffic.

In cases where the road is wide enough, a few feet of padding offer some protection for cylists from getting doored as well.

A specific example which the SFMTA is planning will do exactly this along two-blocks of Upper Market, Westbound from Octavia to Buchanan and Duboce where it meets the bikeway behind the Safeway. In fact, the Upper Market Safety Project is set to be approved this week and finished by fall.

This rendering is the SFMTA's own presentation on the project.

[jamisonwieser]

Upper Market Safety Improvement Proposals

Yesterday the SFMTA held an open house to show off plans for bike and pedestrian safety improvements along an exspecially dangerous stretch of Market Street from Octavia and the freeway entrance to Castro Street.

The Upper Market Street Safety Project proposals presented include: restripying the crosswalks with Abbey Road style zebra crossings (in pink), painting the bike lanes green, banning all right turns on red, with extensions at certain corners (orange) to shorten and safen crossings.

Between Octavia and Duboce westbound, the bike lanes (tan) would be physically separated and protected from moving traffic. That probably means flipping thing over and putting the bike lane along the curb and the parking lane as a buffer from moving traffic.

Exactly how the bikes share or cross traffic lanes hasn’t been finalized. The city has had mixed experience with both dashed green and using sharrows instead. It seems like this is going to be an experiment either way.

In order to be finished with most of this by the end of summer, the corners extensions will simply be painted solid with plastic "soft-hit” posts, or something simple like a temporary curb, to mark off the extension zone until a more permanent solution is worked, and tweaked if necessary before committing to permanent changes. Besides explaining the immediate changes, SFMTA and City planners were their to gather ideas, questions, complaints, and feedback on what the long term extensions and changes might look like.

More info: SFMTA / Upper Market Street Safety Project

[thetsaritsa]

Upper Market Street, San Francisco [5/23/2013 @ 10:20 am]

Walking behind a woman wearing a Nike sweatshirt with the phrase "I RUN TO BE STRONG" written across the back who everyone on Upper Market street seemed to know, bumping her fist and waving or giving a knowing nod. I walked behind her for two minutes and she greeted and interacted with five people. I felt like I was in the opening scene of some cool movie about San Francisco's underbelly. I felt like, this is the woman to know.

[kmiddy22]

Alexander McQueen Spring/ Summer 2013

[sfcitylights]

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