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This Week: Bay Bridge, Reinvestment in West Oakland, Upper Market Bike Lanes
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Here are this week’s highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Tuesday Bay Bridge Weekday Opening Ride to Yerba Buena Island. Join Bike East Bay for a group ride to celebrate the weekday day grand opening of the Bay Bridge People Path. They’ll meet at the Bridge Yard Building, near the east end of the path, and ride […]
SFMTA Open House on Upper Market Street Protected Bike Lanes
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This meeting was postponed from April 28. From SFMTA: This open house is an opportunity for the public to learn about upcoming safety improvements coming to the Upper Market corridor. With a clear need to improve safety on Upper Market Street, the SFMTA will explain how proposed engineering measures will directly respond to the existing […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
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This week, learn the lessons SFBC and SFMTA staff took from their days in Copenhagen, how to start a farmers market, the history of transit in the city and then let it all sink in at the last Sunday Streets of the year. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday: Join the East […]
Tomorrow: Support a Safer Upper Market With Protected Bike Lanes
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The SFMTA will hold an open house tomorrow on bike and pedestrian safety upgrades along upper Market Street, which could include bulb-outs to calm the street’s wide, dangerous intersections and protected bike lanes on some segments. The SFMTA’s proposal hasn’t been presented yet, but safe streets advocates say they worry the bike improvements may not be as […]
Hearing Could Delay Upper Market Bike Lanes Again
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A source has informed the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) that at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ regular meeting this afternoon, mayoral appointee Jeff Sheehy may vote for the planned parking-protected bike lanes on Upper Market to be delayed over an environmental challenge to the project. That’s led the SFBC to question Sheehy’s commitment […]
A Victory for Bike and Safety Activism on Upper Market Protected Bike Lanes
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As Streetsblog readers have surely seen on social media, heard through the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC), or read in the SF Examiner, advocates fended off a last attempt (one hopes) to jam up the Upper Market parking protected bike lane project. Yesterday afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to deny a […]