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Advocates Upset By Prospect of Further Bike Lane Delays
By Matthew Roth |
Advocates are not ready to compromise a single bike lane in the big 56. Photo: Matthew Roth SFBC Program Manager Andy Thornley had the sinking feeling, following an MTA Traffic Engineering meeting last Friday, that the agency was not serious about its commitment to moving as many of the priority 56 bicycle projects forward as […]
New Colored Transit Lanes Coming to Church Street Next Month
By Aaron Bialick |
New red-colored transit lanes are slated to be implemented on a section of Church Street in September in a SF Municipal Transportation Agency pilot project to speed up the J-Church and 22-Fillmore lines. Following the T-Third line, it would be the second time San Francisco has used colored paint on transit-only lanes to help clarify that […]
Will SFMTA Make its Deadlines for Protected Bike Lanes?
By Roger Rudick |
Recently, District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy committed to protected bike lanes in his district from Octavia to Duboce on Market, as part of the Upper Market Street Safety project. But despite Sheehy’s support, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) leadership delayed a key hearing and, according to a report in the SF Examiner, the protected bike lanes were […]
This Week: Downtown S.F., Board Meeting, Smart City Cycling
By Roger Rudick |
Here is a list of events this week.
The Outside Lands Transpo Crunch: Bringing 65K People Per Day to GG Park
By Aaron Bialick |
For the fifth year, San Francisco’s transportation system will absorb one of its largest floods of travelers when 65,000 daily attendees descend upon Golden Gate Park this weekend for the three-day Outside Lands music festival. With festival goers traveling from near and far, promoters have tried each year to curb the number of people arriving […]
Delayed Again, “Better Market Street” Could Move Bikeway to Mission Street
By Aaron Bialick |
The latest news from the Better Market Street project could be a setback for implementing a safe, accessible bike network in San Francisco — not just because construction has been pushed back to 2017, four years past the original date — but because one of the three proposals that planners will study involves building a […]