{"id":2599,"date":"2009-02-07T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:47:13","slug":"how-great-would-a-car-free-market-street-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/07\/how-great-would-a-car-free-market-street-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How great would a car-free Market Street be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/car-free-market.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2600 alignright\" title=\"car-free-market\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/car-free-market-200x183.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/car-free-market-200x183.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/car-free-market-300x275.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/car-free-market.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The San Francisco Bike Coalition keeps talking about how great it would be if Market Street in San Francisco were car-free. In <a href=\"http:\/\/sf.streetsblog.org\/2009\/02\/06\/the-great-streets-campaign-needs-a-leader\/\">this post on the San Francisco Streetsblog<\/a>, they made their standard jab in that direction. (see image).<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this comment on the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&gt;How great would a car-free Market Street be?<\/p>\n<p>Not so great. Go ahead and click the link above<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/archives\/transforming-nyc-streets-with-jsk\/\">New York City has embraced livable streets principles<\/a>&#8221; and watch the video that points to New York City&#8217;s revitalization program. There is talk about \u00a0<em>temporarily<\/em> \u00a0making a car-free corridor for the but no talk at all about any permanent car-free spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe 1-4% of SF rides a bike on a daily basis. In the recent French bike experiments, bike ridership has roughly doubled. So that&#8217;s 2-8% biking in SF. What about the 92-98% that would not be helped by making a car-free Market Street?<\/p>\n<p>The best way to kill the vitality of a street is to remove the traffic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Bike Coalition keeps talking about how great it would be if Market Street in San Francisco were car-free. In this post on the San Francisco Streetsblog, they made their standard jab in that direction. (see image). I wrote this comment on the post: &gt;How great would a car-free Market Street be? Not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}