SFBC: City Commits to Pilot Redesign of Folsom With Separated Bikeways

By Ben Fried
Sep 6, 2013

Hi everyone, greetings from New York. Aaron is currently away on a well-deserved break from running Streetsblog SF. He’ll be back next week delivering the livable streets news. In the meantime, consider this post an open thread about this development:

WE DID IT! City commits to pilot redesign of #Folsom Street that includes separated bikeways! http://t.co/xTt6uL7MUG

— SF Bicycle Coalition (@sfbike) September 6, 2013

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