Eyes on the Street: From New Bike Lanes to Chairs in Trees

By Matthew Roth
Aug 13, 2010

Sorry for the long gap since our last weekly review of photos you’ve submitted to our Flickr pool. Thanks as always for adding photos and keep up the beautiful work. Here’s a selection of some of our recent favorites. Have a great weekend!

Photo: B. Wise

New bike lanes are hot! Photo: sfbike.

Preparations for the first bike lane since the bike injunction was lifted. Photo: sfbike.

And yet another tweak to the Fell Street lane near Divisadero. Photo: firesigned.

Photo: generik11

Photo: eb78

Photo: swampzoid.

Photo: geekstinkbreath.

Photo: breakbeatbilly

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