SF Bicycle Coalition Service Station: Bike Polish
From SFBC:
Ride into fall with a sparkly clean bike! Polish and buff dusty bikes while sharing the work of the SF Bicycle Coalition and sharing the Bicycle Ambassador pride.
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By Aaron Bialick |
The SF County Transportation Authority issued a new report Monday to guide the expansion of Bay Area Bike Share, which sees 90 percent of its rides in San Francisco, despite the city encompassing half of the system’s bikes and stations. Among the recommendations in the “Strategic Analysis Report” [PDF] is giving the SFMTA greater independence to […]
Uber and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Partner on Safety Videos
By Roger Rudick |
Note ‘call to action’ at the end of this post. Today, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) announced the release of four videos, produced with their help by Uber, to educate drivers on how to safely co-exist with cyclists in San Francisco. From an SFBC announcement: Starting today, the SF Bicycle Coalition and Uber are giving […]
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By Aaron Bialick |
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Sup. Breed Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs
By Aaron Bialick |
Updated at 1:04 p.m. with comments from Dave Snyder of the California Bicycle Coalition. Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs. Breed voiced her position today in today’s […]
Tonight: Tell the SFMTA to Put Protected Bike Lanes on the Table for Polk
By Aaron Bialick |
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By Aaron Bialick |
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