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SFMTA Unveils Fell and Oak Bikeway Designs, Pushes Timeline to Spring 2013
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA revealed the design [PDF] for protected bike lanes on three blocks of Fell and Oak Streets at an open house on Saturday. The plan would create a safer connection from the Panhandle to the Wiggle by installing a one-way buffered bike lane on each street, partially separated from motor traffic by planters. The proposal […]
Brinkman Pushes SFMTA Staff To Install Fell Street Protected Bike Lane
By Bryan Goebel |
The SFMTA Board of Directors today issued a directive to staff to move on installing a trial curbside protected bike lane on Fell Street between Scott and Baker Streets. SFMTA Director Cheryl Brinkman raised the issue at today’s board meeting, pointing out Mayor Ed Lee’s comments to Streetsblog last week that he would like to […]
Neighborhood Outreach Continues for Fell and Oak Bikeways
By Aaron Bialick |
Fourteen years of community-driven efforts to improve conditions on Fell and Oak Streets around the Panhandle are finally paying off. The outreach continues on a vision for separated bikeways that would provide San Franciscans safe access to the flattest route connecting the western neighborhoods to areas east while making the neighborhood more livable for residents and businesses. […]
SFMTA Finalizing Fell and Oak Bikeway Design. Will It Be Ready By Summer?
By Aaron Bialick |
Planners are narrowing down the final designs for the Fell and Oak bikeway project, and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) is calling on supporters to ask the mayor and SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin to ensure the project gets on the ground by summer as expected. “The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition urges the SFMTA to implement separated bikeways […]
SFMTA: Fell and Oak Street Bikeways Likely Coming by June 2012
By Aaron Bialick |
A project that would create separated bikeways connecting the vital Wiggle route to the eastern and western parts of the city will take at least a year to plan and implement, SFMTA staff told the agency’s Board of Directors Policy and Governance Committee today. At the urging of directors, SFMTA Sustainable Streets Division Planner Mike […]
Standing Up to Legal Appeal, SFMTA Moves Ahead With Fell Street Bike Lane
By Aaron Bialick |
Opponents of the Fell and Oak Street bikeway and pedestrian improvements filed an appeal last week seeking to delay implementation of street safety measures on the critical three-block stretch linking the Panhandle to the Wiggle, but the legal gambit will not slow down construction of the bike lane on Fell currently underway, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency […]