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SFMTA Aiming to Install Oak Bike Lane By Bike to Work Day

The SFMTA placed preliminary markings for the Oak Street protected bike lane yesterday, and hopes to have it ready by Bike to Work Day next Thursday. Photo: Aaron Bialick
Crews erected the bicycle counter on Market Street earlier this week. Photo: SFMTA

The SFMTA expects to have the protected bike lane on Oak Street and the Market Street bicycle counter ready on Bike to Work Day -- next Thursday, May 9 -- according to agency staff.

As we reported Wednesday, construction on the three-block Oak bike lane has been held up by renovation work at the Kelly-Moore paint shop. However, the agency apparently found a way to work around it, and yesterday laid down the first markings for the bike lane buffer zone on Oak between Baker and Broderick Streets. "Crews are trying to get the work completed by Bike to Work Day," said Ben Jose, public information officer for the agency's Livable Streets subdivision. "But at this point we are not certain that given all the work to be done, it will be totally completed."

Meanwhile, the bicycle counter has been erected on Market between Ninth and Tenth Streets, and is being calibrated. SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose said it will start counting bicycle traffic at its official unveiling on Bike to Work Day.

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