How modes can share the streets: San Francisco 1906
How modes can share the streets: San Francisco 1906
What would it be like if cars, bikes, trams and pedestrians shared the streets? We don't have to imagine - just look at this footage of downtown San Francisco in 1906... (via Arian Horbovetz at www.theurbanphoenix.com)
San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is to trial a ‘smart’ street lighting central management system, (CMS) developed by UK-based smart street lighting company Telensa.
The SFPUC owns, operates and maintains over half the city’s street lights and recently announced a project to replace its high pressure sodium cobra-head style light fixtures with ultra-efficient light emitting diodes (LED) luminaires.
Telensa’s PLANet (Public Lighting Active Network) street light central management sys
San Francisco has become the first US city to ban facial recognition software – and it is a move which has implications for transit agencies as well as police forces worldwide
Big Brother is watching you’, goes the famous saying. Well, not in San Francisco he isn’t. Legislators in the Californian city – home to the tech gold rush and embracers of all things forward-looking – have decided that, after all, there should be limits to technology’s hold over us.
By a margin of eight votes to one, the city’s
The long-awaited Presidio Parkway in San Francisco has opened to traffic. The US$1.1 billion project relied on US$363 million in federal funds, as well as US$152.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and a US$150 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan.
Since work began in 2009, the Presidio Parkway project replaced Doyle Drive, a 1.6-mile segment of SR-101 linking the city to the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting Marin and San Francisco counties, a
