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Proposed East Bay Bike-Share Sites Announced
By Melanie Curry |
Note: This story has been corrected since it was originally posted. Thank you to sharp-eyed readers. Bay Area Bike Share released a map of proposed sites for bike-share stations in the East Bay today. Proposed sites for expansion into San Francisco and San Jose have already been released, but these are the first ones for […]
Bay Area Bike Share Stations Stocked and Ready for Launch Tomorrow
By Aaron Bialick |
This is it, folks: Bay Area Bike Share officially has a fleet in place for tomorrow’s launch. I know it’s tempting, but please refrain from trying to take the bikes out for a ride prematurely. Here’s where you can catch the launch events with officials in four of the participating cities tomorrow morning: San Francisco: 10:30 […]
Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?
By Aaron Naparstek |
Park(ing) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, May 6, 2006. The sign says, "Public space reclamation in progress." Today is International Park(ing) Day, the day when urban dwellers all around the world reclaim on-street parking spaces for purposes more creative and life-affirming than private motor vehicle storage. If you found a bunch of kids playing in an […]
Eyes on the Street: San Jose Ave Gets Concrete Barrier
By Roger Rudick |
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced the opening of a concrete-barrier-protected bike lane on the ‘Bernal Cut’ section of San Jose Ave. on Friday. As seen in the lead image, the bike lane, which was previously ‘protected’ only by paint and plastic bollards, now has a barrier assuring that cyclists can’t be hit by […]
Bayshore Blvd Gets Buffered Bike Lanes, But “Alemany Maze” Still a Barrier
By Aaron Bialick |
The SFMTA extended the buffered bike lanes on Bayshore Boulevard earlier this month from Silver Avenue south to Paul Avenue, reducing four traffic lanes to two. The street now provides a calmer, safer bicycling link for Bayview residents all the way up to where Bayshore ends, at Cesar Chavez Street and the “Hairball” freeway interchange. The […]
New Ingleside Captain Gets Tough on Drivers Failing to Yield to Peds
By Matthew Roth |
Flickr photo: myelectricsheep The Ingleside Police Station has a new captain and he’s out of the blocks with a very progressive pedestrian safety agenda. Captain David Lazar, who just assumed his post at the Ingleside Station on April 18th, will conduct a sting on motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks at five […]