Check out Better Streets, which focuses on building better streets for San Francisco. Above is what Folsom Street would look like trees. (Take a look at the Street View of current Folsom Street on GoogleMaps here)
As you can see, there’s still a lot of room for improvement for the 2nd greenest city in the United States.
Here’s an excerpt from the About Page:
The Better Streets Plan will create a unified set of standards, guidelines, and implementation strategies to govern how the City designs, builds, and maintains its pedestrian environment.
The Better Streets Plan process brings together staff of multiple City agencies to comprehensively plan for streets. The Plan will seek to balance the needs of all street users, with a particular focus on the pedestrian environment and how streets can be used as public space. The Plan will reflect the understanding that the pedestrian environment is about much more than just transportation – that streets serve a multitude of social, recreational and ecological needs that must be considered when deciding on the most appropriate design.
The Better Streets Plan will carry out the intent of San Francisco’s Better Streets Policy, adopted by the Board of Supervisors on February 6, 2006.
via sfgov
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