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San Francisco Bans Cars on Market Street

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors unanimously approved $604-million Better Market Street Project. The move will transform Market Street between Octavia Boulevard and the Embarcadero, including barring private vehicles on a stretch of the transportation arterial between Steuart and Gough.

Muni buses, emergency vehicles, paratransit, bikes, and legitimate taxis will still be allowed to traverse this stretch of Market Street. Ride-sharing vehicles will not be allowed, though can drop off passengers at cross streets. The goal is to create a safer space for pedestrians on the city’s main thoroughfare, which has experienced an increase in fatal collisions this year.

More than 40 new white passenger loading zones and more than 200 yellow commercial loading zones will be added on side streets near Market. Construction on the initial phase could commence next year, once approvals are secured.

* Pictured Market Street, Editorial credit ChameleonsEye, Shutterstock.com

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About Dennis Kaiser

Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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