SFBC Treehouse (Hands-On) Talk: Bicycle Craft Workshop

"Bring your creative energy and cycling enthusiasm to a hands-on craft workshop for cyclists. We’ll be sharing ideas and making several crafts using discarded bicycle parts and other scrap materials. Make one for yourself and one for the SFBC to sell at the Winterfest craft table."

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

This Week in Livable Streets Events

By Matthew Roth |
The week could be one of the most significant for bicycling in San Francisco over the past four years, as Superior Court Judge Peter Busch will consider lifting the bicycle injunction at a hearing today, Monday. Stay tuned to our Twitter feed for live updates. Also, Streetsblog Editor Bryan Goebel and Reporter Matthew Roth will […]

Advocates: Despite Bike-Ped Death, Cars Still Greatest Danger to Peds

By Aaron Bialick |
In the midst of a wave of media attention around the recent bicycle-pedestrian death in the Castro, walking and bicycling advocates today re-affirmed the greatest dangers facing pedestrians on San Francisco’s streets: high-speed roads and dangerous driving behavior. In a KQED radio forum this morning, Walk SF Executive Director Elizabeth Stampe, SF Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) Executive Director Leah Shahum, […]

David Byrne Turns His Book Reading Into Bicycle Advocacy Primer

By Matthew Roth |
Former Talking Heads frontman and current bicycling icon David Byrne used his celebrity and the publication of his new book, Bicycle Diaries, to instruct a capacity audience of more than 900 people at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on the many ways that the bicycle has become a more acceptable and mainstream form of locomotion. Rather […]

Envisioning the Wiggle as a People-Centered Greenway

By Aaron Bialick |
The SF Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) has posted new visuals on its website depicting how streets on the Wiggle could be transformed into greener, traffic-calmed streets oriented toward safe walking and bicycling. The Wiggle, the flattest route connecting the east and west parts of the city, is already a magnet for bike traffic. However, as the SFBC notes, new riders can […]