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Founder/Executive Editor. I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.
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Awesome map Molly.
Great map but I think it would be easier to read without the grey background with the little circles. I don’t know if that was intentional or not. I have had problems printing PDFs in which light grey becomes much darker. Thanks, though.
Thank you. We’ll take another look at it. Best, Lydia
Cool map, thanks. The map identifies Cesar Chavez and 17th as streets where “bikes and cars share these lanes”, which is true. (And, which is also true for all the streets here.)
Unofficial bike streets, IMO, are 15th St eastbound, which is and important bike arterial after coming down the hill from the Wiggle. Also, 24th Street is tame enough from motor vehicles that I see that it is very popular with bicyclists. And, personally I find that the north-south street Shotwell is narrow enough that it isn’t popular with motor vehicles which makes it a very attractive N-S bicycle route option.