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The California Bicycle Summit Is Sold Out
By Melanie Curry |
But you can live-stream one of the most informative and inspiring bike events in California, April 6-9.
“Not a Freeway” — Re-Branding the Excesses of the $1.4B Presidio Parkway
By Aaron Bialick |
When visitors land on the front page of the Presidio Parkway’s website, they see an animated pelican emerging from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, gliding across green hills and blue skies. When the bird lands, you can “Meet Parker” with a click and learn all about the Presidio Parkway Pelican. The PR team for this […]
Battery Bluff: San Francisco’s New Park
By Roger Rudick |
Plus some Streetsblog grousing about a massive, missed opportunity
Is Sunday Streets the Next Critical Mass?
By Dave Snyder |
Flickr photo: Michael Bolger Though it occurred for just four hours on two miles of streets in the Mission, this week’s Sunday Streets event has transformed the livable streets movement in some of the same ways that Critical Mass transformed San Francisco’s bicycle rights movement in the early 1990s. “Even better than Critical Mass,” was […]
Full Bike Compliance With the Stop Sign Law: An Effective Spectacle
By Aaron Bialick |
Countless bike commuters queued up for over a block yesterday to make a completely legal left turn on the Wiggle. As predicted, the demonstration showed the absurdity of how full compliance with the impractical stop sign law — which makes no distinction between bikes and cars — would actually play out. The Wiggle “stop-in” was a […]
Are Two-Way Streets the Way of the Future?
By Sarah Goodyear |
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we’re featuring a post from San Francisco’s Pedestrianist about two-way street conversions in Minneapolis and how such changing traffic patterns could benefit pedestrians and other users: The city of Minneapolis is about to return two of its downtown streets to two-way traffic after nearly 30 years of one-way flow. Those […]