CounterPULSE Talk: Bicycling in San Francisco
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Would Personal Rapid Transit Benefit Anyone but Its Manufacturer?
By Matthew Roth |
Image: SkyTran Some of you saw the Examiner piece yesterday about SkyTran’s personal rapid transit (PRT) project and were probably looking for a response from us (one of you even asked in comments why we didn’t touch it), but I’ve been very leery of the topic since I saw the "Pod People" post over on […]
Facebook Refuses to Remove Group Promoting Anti-Cyclist Violence
By Matthew Roth |
Screenshot from the Facebook group promoting dooring, among other acts that injure cyclists. A number of Streetsblog readers have noticed a particularly loathsome group that has sprouted up on Facebook and has a legion of fans. As of this writing, more than 32,000 people are fans of "There’s a perfectly good bike path right next […]
SF Gets First Protected Bike Lane! Drivers Already Violating It
By Bryan Goebel |
A bicyclist rides in SF’s first protected bike lane. Photos by Bryan Goebel. DPT crews installed San Francisco’s first physically separated bike lane this morning on a westbound stretch of an existing bike lane on Market Street between 9th and 10th, and before workers had even finished putting in the final safe-hit post, some drivers […]
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 […]
Commentary: Sidewalk Sitting? No Way! Sidewalk Parking? Stay All Day!
By Fran Taylor |
Photo: San Francisco Department of Sidewalk Parking. One weighs 200 pounds or less, the other maybe two tons or more. One is involved in odd scuffles, the other in nearly 40,000 deaths nationwide each year. One is being targeted by the mayor and the press in San Francisco, the other sails under the radar. Even […]
SFPD Increases Enforcement on Wiggle as SFMTA Ponders Signal Priority
By Bryan Goebel |
A bicyclist waits to turn left onto Fell from Scott, where SFPD officers have been ticketing cyclists for running the red light. Photos: Bryan Goebel. It’s no secret that many bicyclists pedaling through one of San Francisco’s most popular bicycling corridors, The Wiggle, often run the red light turning onto Fell Street from Scott. Whether […]