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March 2010
Fri 19: Getting More Women on Bicycles 0
Wed 17: Council Debate Over Sausalito Bicycle Tax Postponed to April 34
Wed 17: Protected Bike Lane on Market Street Keeps Getting Better 20
Wed 17: Cyclists Be Warned, the New Acura Is Coming to Town 14
Tue 16: Talk of Bike Tax Riles Cyclists in Sausalito 37
Mon 15: Voices From the National Bike Summit 0
Fri 12: In Surprise Appearance, Ray LaHood Caps Off National Bike Summit 7
Thu 11: Eyes on the Street: Market and 10th Get New Bike Lane Design 8
Thu 11: The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco's Market Street 20
Wed 10: Streetscast: Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google's Bike Map 12
Wed 10: Two Local Bicycle Advocacy Groups Honored With National Awards 6
Tue 2: National Survey: Driving Down in 2009, Sustainable Transport Up 0
February 2010
Wed 24: Eyes on the Street: Market Street Bike Lane Puts the Squeeze on Cyclists 27
Mon 22: Hancock Introduces Bill to Allow Toll Funds for Bay Bridge Bike Path 14
Mon 22: SFBC Director Leah Shahum to Write for Streetsblog from Amsterdam 3
Fri 19: Hairball Study Coughs Up Ideas, Memories 18
Tue 16: Biking to Work with Seattle’s Mayor Mike McGinn 2
Tue 9: First Lady Launches Childhood Obesity Push With Nod to Biking & Walking 1
Mon 8: Reviewing the Policing of Critical Mass 18
Tue 2: Driver Arrested in Death of Los Gatos Cyclist 15
Tue 2: San Francisco Police Chief to Review Bicycle, Pedestrian Policies 34
Mon 1: SUV Driver Loses Control, Kills Cyclist on Sidewalk in Los Gatos 15
January 2010
Wed 27: Transit Advocates, Construction Workers Show Up in Force at MTC Meeting 19
Fri 22: Bicycling Up 8.5 Percent in SF Last Year, 53 Percent Increase from 2006 12
Fri 15: California Bicycle Advocates Debate Statewide Legislative Agenda 22
Tue 12: Tweak to Market Street Traffic Diversion Pilot Should Benefit Cyclists, Peds 5
Tue 12: San Francisco Converts Some Bus Zones on Terminated Lines to Parking 16
Fri 8: Facebook Refuses to Remove Group Promoting Anti-Cyclist Violence 105
Fri 8: LA Road Rage Doctor Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Assaulting Bicyclists 19
Thu 7: First Muni/Bike Crash of the Year on Market Street this Morning 8
December 2009
Sat 19: Dates and Locations For 2010 San Francisco Sunday Streets Announced 11
Fri 18: Eyes on the Street: Work on Clipper Street Bike Lane Starts 4
Fri 18: Bicyclist Killed by Caltrans Vehicle Driver on 101 Overpass in San Mateo 19
Wed 16: #whyweride Offers Some Gems From Cyclists Around the Country 1
Tue 15: SF Transportation Authority Bicycle Tracker Available for Android 4
Mon 14: Streetfilms: Making a Better Market Street in San Francisco 9
Mon 14: Streetfilms: Copenhagen’s Climate-Friendly, Bike-Friendly Streets 1
Mon 14: Finally, Some Good News for Philly Cyclists 2
Thu 10: Engineers Lay Out Costs of Reopening Alto Tunnel to Bicyclists 16
Wed 9: Eyes on the Street: Claremont Boulevard Bike Lane Being Installed 22
Wed 9: NY's Sadik-Khan Joins Blumenauer, Byrne for "Cities for Cycling" Launch 3
Fri 4: Come Celebrate the Year of the Bike at SFBC's Winterfest 2
Thu 3: Mayor, MTA and Bike Activists Celebrate First New Bike Lane in Three Years 18
Thu 3: Clear Channel Drops SF Bike Share, Mayor Newsom Pledges Larger Pilot 17
Thu 3: SF Gets First Protected Bike Lane! Drivers Already Violating It 170
Thu 3: Eyes on the Street: SFPD's Ingleside Bicycle Beat 4
Wed 2: Paint-Happy MTA Crews Prepare for Physically Separated Market St Lane 11
Tue 1: Eyes On the Street: SF Gets Its First New Bike Lane in Three Years 26
November 2009
Mon 30: MTA Crews Will Begin Painting New Bike Lanes Tomorrow 4
Mon 30: Back to Civilization 4
Mon 23: Take Two Peaks and Call Me in the Morning! 5
Thu 19: Cyclist Injured in Crash on the Wiggle 6
Wed 18: MTA: Market Street Pilot is Improving Conditions for Muni, Bicyclists 8
Thu 12: SF Transportation Authority Launches iPhone App to Track Cyclists 31
Thu 12: Chrome Bags Announces Same-Day Delivery by Bike Messenger in SF 7
Wed 11: Some Bay Area Developers Ditch the Extra Parking Spaces for More Units 14
Wed 11: Cupertino Resident Killed While Riding Bicycle Near De Anza College 0
Tue 10: Streetfilms: NYC Biking Up Big for Two Years Running 0
Mon 9: Will San Jose's New Bicycle Plan Mark Shift From Years of Car Privilege? 15
Tue 3: LA Road Rage Doc Convicted for Horrific 2008 Cyclist Assault 5
October 2009
Sat 31: Bikes at Work Where You Live, Part 1 2
Thu 29: Eyes on the Street: San Francisco Gets First New Bike Lanes in Three Years 28
Wed 28: Bicyclist Injured in Collision at Market and Ellis Streets this Morning 6
Tue 27: Streetfilms: San Francisco 350 Climate Action 0
Fri 23: Bicyclist Killed in Redwood City Was a Fixture of Peninsula Bike Paths 13
Tue 20: U.S. Racer Dave Zabriskie Discusses Bike Crashes, Road Safety 1
Wed 14: Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Bicyclist Claims No Knowledge of Crash 41
Wed 14: Google Bike Routes -- Almost Here? 6
Wed 14: SPUR Offers a Bold Bike Path Proposal for the Embarcadero 22
Wed 14: Are We Smarter Than a Third Grader? On Livable Streets, Maybe Not. 1
Wed 14: Bicyclist Killed in Redwood City Hit-and-Run 30
Fri 9: Bicyclist Injured in Haight Street Crash This Morning 18
Mon 5: LaHood: "If You Don't Want an Automobile, You Don't Have to Have One" 3
Fri 2: Bike Traffic Where You Live 0
September 2009
Wed 30: David Byrne Turns His Book Reading Into Bicycle Advocacy Primer 16
Thu 24: Men Who Harrased Bicyclist On Her Commute Home 'Severely Warned' 29
Fri 18: Eyes on the Street: Backwards Driver Crashes Into Cyclist in GG Park 40
Wed 16: A San Francisco Bicyclist's Terrifying Commute Home 59
Wed 16: Klobuchar & Webb: Dems' Unlikely Opponents of Bike-Ped Investment 4
Tue 15: More on McCain's Anti-Transit and Coburn's Anti-Bike Amendments 0
Mon 14: Everyday "City Bikes" Need a Stimulus 19
Fri 11: New Bike Racks Installed at Balboa High School 7
Thu 10: Bike Capacity to Increase on Capitol Corridor Trains 8
Wed 9: How Much Would Most People Pay For a Shorter Commute? 4
Wed 9: UC Planners Envision "Bay Line" Park on the Old Bay Bridge Span 35
Fri 4: Judge Agrees to Delay Hearing to Consider Lifting Bike Injunction 16
Tue 1: Marin County Bike Co-Op 'A Community Hub for Culture and Technology' 3
August 2009
Fri 28: City Attorney's Office Files Motion to Lift Bike Injunction 36
Thu 27: Marin County to Install Bicycle Sensors at 31 Intersections 5
Wed 26: Eyes on the Street: Lake Merritt Bike Lane Ends Abruptly 4
Wed 26: ISCOTT: Taking a Closer Look at Street Closures 4
Mon 24: San Francisco Designer Connects Bikes and Fashion With Utility Bags 3
Thu 20: Collision with Muni Metro Vehicle Seriously Injures Bicyclist 20
Thu 20: Back-to-School Season Brings Bike-to-School Bans 0
Fri 14: Bike Commute Options During the BART Strike 9
Fri 7: "Penguins to Penguins" Sunday Streets Kicks Off This Weekend 10
Fri 7: Wreckless Riding 22
Thu 6: Bicyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run 'Grateful' Following Suspect's Arrest 32
Thu 6: Extra! Extra! Nevius and Matier Serving Up Steaming Piles of Journalism 31
Mon 3: Can SF Improve Upon New York's Bicycle Access Bill? 4
July 2009
Fri 31: Streetfilms: Scraper Bikes and the "Bike 4 Life" Ride 6
Thu 30: McCain & Coburn: Let’s Make Roads Safer — by Slashing Safety Money 2
Thu 30: On Bike Theft and Boneheads 26
Wed 29: To Save the Planet and Money, More Businesses are Delivering by Bicycle 4
Tue 28: Always Wear a Bullet-Proof Helmet 5
Fri 24: Eyes on the Street: Scott Street Bike Box Reappears 9
Wed 22: iPhone Apps That Might Make Your Bike Ride Safer, Certainly More Fun 0
Fri 17: Transportation Reform Is Health Reform 0
Wed 15: SF Supervisors Chiu and Mirkarimi Ride the Electric Bike Wave 18
Fri 10: Bachmann Says Walking and Biking Have Nothing to Do With Public Health 4
Thu 9: SFPD Issues Rare Press Release on Hit-and-Run Crash of Bicyclist, Young Son 26
Wed 8: Enrique Peñalosa Urges SF to Embrace Pedestrians and Public Space 14
Thu 2: Bicyclist, Young Son Injured in Hit-and-Run Crash on Valencia Street 52
Wed 1: When Old Parking Meter Poles Go, So Often Does Bike Parking 5
June 2009
Fri 26: Mayor Newsom, City Agencies and Advocates Celebrate Bike Plan 24
Fri 26: MTA Hearing on Bike Plan Packed, Mayor to Hold Presser at 3 pm 6
Thu 25: Meeting to Certify Bike Plan EIR Tonight, Red Tape Likely to Follow 19
Wed 24: London Campaign to Slow Cyclists on Shared Path Gets Creative 4
Tue 23: Your Thoughts Please on Examiner's Bike Plan Hit-Piece? 54
Tue 23: Mayor Newsom Shows Strong Support for Bike Plan 0
Mon 22: After Three Years, SF Bike Injunction is Closer to Being Lifted 18
Mon 22: Advocates Say MTC Proposal Short-Changes Regional Bike Network 5
Fri 19: Bicycle Music Festival: Pedal Powered Tunes and Some Exercise, Too 2
Thu 18: Car-Free Challenge Participants Buck Stereotypes 5
Tue 16: GOP's New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! 4
Mon 15: Helmet on Your Head or Egg on Your Face 37
Fri 12: Bicycle Rides Aplenty This Weekend 0
Fri 12: Matthew Modine Rallies Support for “Bicycle For A Day” 1
Fri 12: Expanded Downtown Berkeley BART Bike Station Moving Forward 3
Wed 10: Streetcars in Seattle, Or Why America Should Mind Its Transit Gaps 4
Tue 9: Mission Merchants Approve of Sunday Streets 11
Mon 8: Packed Mission Sunday Streets Raises the Question, "Why Not Every Week?" 24
Fri 5: CHP Makes Arrest in Hit-and-Run Killing of Bicyclist 1
Fri 5: Mission Sunday Streets Will Showcase Merchants and Cultural Centers 2
Mon 1: Supervisor Mar Holds Better Streets Town Hall Meeting in the Richmond 5
May 2009
Thu 28: First Bike to School Day in San Francisco a Success 9
Wed 27: Hundreds Expected to Take Part in Bike to School Day Thursday 0
Wed 20: Mission Sunday Streets Expected to Draw Largest Crowds Yet 9
Tue 19: Advocates Upset By Prospect of Further Bike Lane Delays 11
Mon 18: Obama's Energy Secretary Reclaims His Bicycle, For a Day 1
Fri 15: Where's Gavin? Likely Campaigning in an Armored SUV 4
Fri 15: Supervisor Avalos Would Like to See Public Bike Pump Stations in SF 20
Fri 15: Streetfilms: ASCOBIKE, Largest Bicycle Facility in the Americas 0
Tue 12: Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 3: The Final Warning! 0
Fri 8: Come Celebrate Mothers Day This Sunday in the Bayview 3
April 2009
Mon 27: Another Bicyclist Injured at Market/Octavia; Driver Not Cited 51
Fri 24: Don't Forget To Come Play in the Streets This Sunday! 0
Fri 24: Great Streets Project Hires Director, Hits the Streets Running 3
Thu 23: Moralism vs. Utopianism--of Red Lights, Helmets, Bike Lanes and... 39
Wed 22: Gav For Guv Short On Transportation Essentials 8
Fri 17: Streetscast: An Interview with MTA Chief Nat Ford, Part II 2
Fri 17: Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a "Plague of Locusts" 12
Wed 15: Ad Nauseam: What Are You Implying, Chase? 15
Tue 14: Making the Best of Having Your Bicycle Stolen 5
Tue 7: GM and Segway Unveil La-Z-Boy on Wheels 10
Tue 7: Eyes on the Street: When Repaving Becomes a Hazard 4
Fri 3: Healthy Saturdays Are Back! 4
Thu 2: News From New York: The ABC's of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets 8
Thu 2: Marin’s Cal Park Tunnel To Open by February 2010 7
March 2009
Tue 31: Streetscast: An Interview with District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier 10
Tue 31: Happy Belated Transportation Freedom Day, San Francisco! 0
Fri 27: The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate 8
Fri 27: That's Sooo Vanilla!: Friday Bike Porn in Forbes Magazine 3
Thu 26: The World's Best Music Videos Featuring Bicycles 12
Wed 18: DOT and HUD: Transportation and Land-Use Planning Should Prioritize TOD 1
Mon 16: MTA Mulls Scenarios for Moving Bike Plan Forward 13
Tue 10: The Rise of the Longtail Bicycle 4
Fri 6: The Future Design of SF's Bike Racks May Start on Treasure Island 6
Thu 5: L.A.'s East Hollywood ArtCycle & Block Party 0
Thu 5: Alto Tunnel Workshop Draws Standing-Room-Only Crowd 9
Wed 4: Caltrain to Update Its Plan to Increase Bike Capacity 7
Tue 3: Love Your Lane: Kirkham Street to the Sea 1
Mon 2: DIY Bike Route 2
Mon 2: Valencia Signals Re-timed to Improve Traffic Flow and Safety 10
February 2009
Fri 27: Oakland Cyclist Injured in Hit-and-Run Breathing on His Own 0
Thu 26: SF School District Encourages Students to Bike 0
Wed 25: MTA Begins Its First Automated Count of Bicyclists 14
Fri 20: The Myth of the Urban Driving Shoppers 25
Thu 19: Oakland Cyclist Remains in Coma Following Hit-and-Run 3
Wed 18: Big Kick-Off for SFBC's "Big 56" Campaign 3
Fri 13: Loving the Blue Bike Lane in Brisbane 13
Thu 12: Good Roads? 1
Thu 12: Short Stimulus Package Timeline Will Compel Tough Regional Choices 5
Tue 10: Presidio Trust Experiments With Green Bike Lanes 2
Wed 4: Oakland Bicyclist Victim of Hit-n-Run 0
January 2009
Fri 30: Accomodating Bike Speeds by Re-timing Signals on Valencia Street 4
Thu 29: The Impending Failure of San Francisco's Pilot Bike Share Program 30
Wed 28: Paradise LOSt (Part III): California's Revolutionary Plan to Overhaul Transportation Analysis 3
Tue 27: Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head 3
Fri 23: Market/Octavia Debate: Safety by Numbers or Safety in Numbers? 6
Thu 22: Market/Octavia Bike Lane Will Stay for Now 18
Wed 21: Drivers Are Running the Red Light at Fell/Masonic, Imperiling Cyclists 30
Tue 20: Unlocking San Francisco's Privately Owned Public Open Spaces 5
Fri 16: Hundreds Rally to Save Market/Octavia Bike Lane 13
Fri 16: MTA Traffic Engineer's Rationale Behind Removing Bike Lane 14
Thu 15: Bicycle Signal Priority Green Wave Project Stalled 11
Fri 9: Bike Commuter David Chiu Will Preside Over the Board of Supes 1
Wed 7: MTA Board Backs Plan to Eliminate Bike Lane at Market/Octavia 18
November 2008
Thu 6: Streetfilms: Halloween Mass in San Francisco 2
September 2007
Wed 5: Dude, Where's My Bike Lane? 8
July 2007
Fri 27: Bike Parking on Steroids 23
May 2007
Tue 22: On San Fran's Market Street Bikes Outnumber Cars for a Day 10