SFBC Valet Bicycle Parking at Street Food Festival
"This wildly popular showcase of local street food vendors is something you won’t want to miss. Ride your bicycle and park for free at the SFBC Valet Bicycle Parking corral."
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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, […]
Detailed Polk Street Designs: Plans for Safe Bicycling Still “Lackluster”
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA and the Planning Department presented detailed plans for Polk Street at the project’s final open house meeting yesterday. The new aspects include specific locations of bulb-outs, dedicated bicycle signals, left turn prohibitions, loading zones, and new trees and landscaping. Plans to improve bicycle infrastructure are still composed of a mix of protected, buffered, […]
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 […]
San Francisco Converts Some Bus Zones on Terminated Lines to Parking
By Matthew Roth |
Photos: Matthew Roth The San Francisco MTA has an interesting decision to make with bus zones throughout the city now that a number of bus routes were changed or terminated with the service reductions that went into effect on December 5th, 2009. Will the city open the curb space up to cars, potentially adding meters […]
SFMTA Approves New On-Street Bicycle Parking
By Matthew Roth |
Future site of on-street bicycle parking in front of Boogaloos on Valencia. Photo: Matthew Roth When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which runs Muni, instituted the sweeping December 5th service changes and eliminated several bus routes, including the 26-Valencia, bicycle advocates immediately raised the question of what would be done with the now […]
SFBC Valet Bicycle Parking at Party on Block 18
By Abigail Shull |
"It’s the second bi-annual block party on 18th Street featuring the tastiest neighbors in Gourmet Gulch. Locally made and crafted food and beer, children’s entertainment, a pie contest, DJs and of course SFBC’s own free valet bicycle parking. All proceeds benefit the Women’s Building, BuenDia Family School, 826 Valencia, Next Course & Pie Ranch."