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Transit Advocates Gearing up for Friday’s MTA Board Vote
By Michael Rhodes |
Click for full-size PDF: The Transit Not Traffic coalition is distributing flyers to transit supporters. Friday could be a dark day for San Francisco’s public transit system: The MTA Board is set to vote on a ten percent cut in service and increases to several monthly passes in order to cover a $16.9 million budget […]
San Francisco May Get Its First Green Bike Lane on Fell Street
By Bryan Goebel |
Image: SFMTA San Francisco would get its first green bike lane under a new MTA proposal (PDF) to fix the troubled intersection of Divisadero and Fell streets near the entrance to the Arco station, where drivers queuing up to get gas obstruct the bike lane and block the sidewalk, creating hazardous conditions for people who […]
SFMTA Cuts Block of Polk Bike Lane Fought By Visionless Mayor’s Optometrist
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA has nixed a block of protected bike lane planned on Polk Street, where merchants including Mayor Ed Lee’s optometrist have vocally opposed it to preserve car parking. The raised, protected bike lane between California and Pine Streets was removed from Polk’s plans six months after they were presented at the final public open house. […]
Judge Busch Could Block New Bike Lanes Through March 2010
By Michael Rhodes |
Judge Busch could partially lift the injunction for now, allowing the city to paint sharrows but not bike lanes. Flickr photo: BikePortland.org The injunction that has hung like a pall over San Francisco’s efforts to improve bicycle infrastructure for the city’s growing number of bicyclists will remain for at least another ten days, and could […]
Mayor Newsom, City Agencies and Advocates Celebrate Bike Plan
By Matthew Roth |
Mayor Newsom said bike lanes were part of a sustainable, 21st Century city. Photo: Matthew Roth At a press conference this afternoon characterized by relief and jubilation, Mayor Gavin Newsom, representatives from the city agencies responsible for San Francisco’s streets, and bicycle advocates celebrated the MTA’s adoption of the Bike Plan and the legislation of […]
MTA Board Votes to Approve EIR and Bike Plan
By Bryan Goebel |
In a decision advocates hailed as a victory for bicyclists in San Francisco, the MTA Board of Directors voted uaninmously this afternoon to approve the EIR and adopt the Bike Plan, legislating 45 of the 56 priority projects, which will add about 34 miles of new bike lanes in the city. A crowd of bicyclists […]