Mustache Ride over Golden Gate Bridge
“BYOBM. Bring your own bike and mustache. Bring money for the ferry back from Sausalito ($7.85)”
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Mustache Ride Over Golden Gate Bridge
By Aaron Bialick |
From SFBC: BYOBM (Bring your own bike and mustache) on this ride from Golden Gate Park to Sausalito. Ride will take the ferry back, so bring money for that $7.85.
Sausalito Installs Bicycle Signs That Contradict California Vehicle Code
By Joshua Hart |
A sign in Sausalito that contradicts state law. Photos: Joshua Hart. While Marin County has been designated a "national model" for bicycling and walking, one of four counties that have received a $25 million grant from the Federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), Sausalito has been notably hostile to the influx of cyclists who come […]
This Week in Livable Streets Events
By Aaron Bialick |
This week, the SFBC holds Bike Safety and Education Week, SPUR reviews the ballot for the coming election, and celebrate Halloween with Critical Mass. Here are the highlights from the Streetsblog calendar: Monday and all week: SFBC Bike Safety and Education Week. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is holding their free Urban Bicycling Workshops almost every day during Bike […]
Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”
By Pam MacLean |
Bicyclists disembark from the Sausalito ferry. Photo by Tom Murphy Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does […]
Sausalito Council to Add Bike Parking, But Doesn’t Discuss Rental Fee
By Pam MacLean |
Sausalito remains a free city today, at least when it comes to parking for tourist rental bikes. Instead of adding fees for tourist bike parking, the city will add racks to accommodate 300 more bikes for the expected crush of two-wheeled summer tourists. Bicycle tourists visiting Sausalito on rental bikes. Photo: Bike and Roll. The […]
An Emerging New Bike Plan for San Francisco is a Bold Path Forward
By Bryan Goebel |
After four years of an agonizing bicycle injunction that prevented the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from adding any significant improvements to the city’s bike network, a judge earlier this year finally freed the SFMTA to begin building out the city’s long-promised Bicycle Plan. In short order, the SFMTA made some very noticeable improvements, […]