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Pedestrians Get Benefits and Dangers, But Few Dollars
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Dec 22, 2009
Despite making up about half of the traffic fatalities in San Francisco, pedestrians receive only a tiny portion of the federal transportation funding available. Walkers contribute to their own health, reducing local medical costs, and tread lightly on expensive infrastructure, but pedestrian projects win peanuts compared with highway projects that often bring pollution and congestion instead.
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Muni Service Changes, Fast Pass Hike Loom
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Nov 13, 2009
Muni riders whacked by fare increases in July now face the second punch of the old one-two: service changes and a more expensive Fast Pass. Come January, the adult pass will cost $60, or $70 with BART access in the City, which has been free. But first, major changes in service are scheduled for December 5. Not all are cuts, but several lines have had frequency or hours of operation reduced. One example hits home. The #67-Bernal Heights will cease service at 11 pm. No doubt, ridership on this bus was low late at night, but no alternative exists. A residential home for Alzheimer’s patients at the top of Bernal hill has a night shift that relies on the #67 to travel from BART. Those workers, poorly paid women who gave wonderful care to my mother before she died in 2001, must now scramble to find a ride or face a dark, hilly half-hour walk.
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Hospital Tackles Construction Commotion
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Oct 26, 2009
The diagnosis was clear: San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center faced massive disruption during construction of the new hospital mandated by state earthquake standards. Signs and symptoms included traffic congestion, which would affect vulnerable patients and other pedestrians, loss of about 100 on-campus parking spaces at the same time an army of contractors would be bringing in their own vehicles, and worsened air quality.
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Health Takes a Beating from Land Use Policies
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Sep 25, 2009
The Mission has higher rates of asthma and lower incomes than most San Francisco neighborhoods. And proximity to freeways and busy streets is as common as access to parks and green space, according to the Department of Public Health’s Program on Health, Equity & Sustainability. The program analyzes by neighborhood several factors: access to healthy foods, obesity, and physical activity; housing; transportation; open space and parks; air quality and noise; and segregation. Findings appear in maps and tables that also rank the incidence of several chronic illnesses for 26 neighborhoods
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Forsaken Landscape Meets Forgotten History
Sep 02, 2009
The Bay may not be far from the Mission or Bernal Heights, but it feels a million miles away. Though drivers can make the trip in no time, walkers and transit users find it easier to get to Oakland. But help may be on the way. Several blocks of Cesar Chavez east of Highway 101 have no sidewalks or only three feet of walkway, with utility poles smack in the middle. Crosswalks are also lacking. Veritable Vegetable, a distributor of organic produce at Tennessee, has facilities on both sides of Cesar Chavez, and workers constantly cross the street at corners that lack even basic stripes. To cross at a light, they would have to go blocks out of their way. The company petitioned the Municipal Transportation Agency for a crosswalk, but the MTA turned them down.
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