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Bike Doctors at Bayview Farmer’s Market
By Michael Rhodes |
"he SFBC’s Bike Doctors will be doing free bike maintenance like fixing flats and lubing chains at the Bayview Farmers’ Market."
This Week: Visions for a Better Market Street
By Robert Prinz |
Join one of the Better Market Street workshops this week to help envision the future of San Francisco’s most important corridor. East Bay Bus Rapid Transit also goes up for final approvals at the Oakland and San Leandro city councils this week, and Sunday Streets returns to Bayview and Dogpatch neighborhoods. Here are all the highlights from […]
SFMTA Crews Begin Striping Alemany Boulevard Buffered Bike Lanes
By Aaron Bialick |
Alemany Boulevard will soon be dramatically safer for cycling as SFMTA crews began striping the city’s newest stretch of buffered bike lanes today. Despite acting as a vital connection between the Glen Park and Bayview neighborhoods, this stretch of Alemany between Rousseau Street and Bayshore Boulevard [pdf] has long been uninviting for people who bike […]
Inner Richmond’s First Sunday Streets Lively With Llamas and Humans
By Aaron Bialick |
Despite the cloudy weather, Clement and Arguello Streets were bustling yesterday during the first Sunday Streets in the Inner Richmond — the first Sunday Streets to come to the west side’s neighborhood streets. (The other events have all been in Golden Gate Park and on the Great Highway.) With the event tied in with Clement’s on-street […]
Bayshore Blvd Gets Buffered Bike Lanes, But “Alemany Maze” Still a Barrier
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA extended the buffered bike lanes on Bayshore Boulevard earlier this month from Silver Avenue south to Paul Avenue, reducing four traffic lanes to two. The street now provides a calmer, safer bicycling link for Bayview residents all the way up to where Bayshore ends, at Cesar Chavez Street and the “Hairball” freeway interchange. The […]
Bike to Work Day Shifts Into High Gear Tomorrow
By Aaron Bialick |
San Francisco’s streets are expected to fill with bike commuters tomorrow for the city’s 18th Bike to Work Day. The city has more bike lanes, more people on bikes, and more political momentum for bike policy today than in years past. “We definitely expect to see more people bicycling on Bike to Work Day this year […]