SFBC Valet Bicycle Parking at US Half-Marathon 2
"Free valet bicycle parking provided at this scenic marathon loop that takes runners across the Golden Gate Bridge."
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SFBC Valet Bicycle Parking at SF Marathon
By Abigail Shull |
"Once again, the SFBC will be parking bikes for marathon runners with legs left to pedal home, and for interested onlookers at the SF Marathon."
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 […]
Bike Parking on Steroids
By Clarence Eckerson Jr. |
"Cyclists are so used to doing with scraps and they’ve been that way for so long that they are shocked when they get anything that satisfies their needs." Barry Bonds may almost have the home run record, but the San Francisco Giants have another milestone that is much more admirable: the first free, convienent, […]
Caltrain Struggles to Meet Bike Parking Demand at 4th and King Station
By Stan Parkford |
The Caltrain Bike Station parking facility outside its terminal at Fourth and King streets is set to be remodeled and slightly expanded to accommodate the growing number of Peninsula train commuters who are arriving by bike. But demand from bike-to-Caltrain commuters may continue to overwhelm the small, staffed bike station. Paltry funding over the years proved insufficient for Warm […]
Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall
By Aaron Bialick |
When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]
Proposed Developments Illustrate San Francisco’s Parking Dilemma
By Matthew Roth |
A simulation of the proposed discount mall on Market Street, City Place. Image: Urban Realty. At another marathon Planning Commission meeting last week, parking was all the rage. Two projects in particular had community members and housing and transit advocates fired up because of the parking that developers proposed to build, or in one case, […]