Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Sausalito

Sausalito Council to Add Bike Parking, But Doesn’t Discuss Rental Fee

By Pam MacLean | Apr 7, 2010 | 7 Comments

Sausalito remains a free city today, at least when it comes to parking for tourist rental bikes. Instead of adding fees for tourist bike parking, the city will add racks to accommodate 300 more bikes for the expected crush of two-wheeled summer tourists. Bicycle tourists visiting Sausalito on rental bikes. Photo: Bike and Roll. The […]

Sausalito Installs Bicycle Signs That Contradict California Vehicle Code

By Joshua Hart | Mar 24, 2010 | 79 Comments

A sign in Sausalito that contradicts state law. Photos: Joshua Hart. While Marin County has been designated a "national model" for bicycling and walking, one of four counties that have received a $25 million grant from the Federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), Sausalito has been notably hostile to the influx of cyclists who come […]

Council Debate Over Sausalito Bicycle Tax Postponed to April

By Pam MacLean | Mar 17, 2010 | 34 Comments

Photo: Bike and Roll San Francisco Growing tension over how, or even whether, Sausalito can accommodate the flood of summer tourists riding rented bicycles into the village spawned a plan by one city councilman to convert four auto parking spots to bike parking. Subsequently, there has been talk of a one-dollar tax on rental bikes […]

Sausalito To Install Donated Bike Racks for Tourists

By Tom Murphy | Apr 22, 2009 | 2 Comments

A group of tourists visiting from Venezuela. Photo by Pam MacLean. What do you do when hundreds of cyclotourists descend on your bucolic village, clogging sidewalks with rented bikes? The Sausalito City Council is trying to quell a virulent public debate with a tried-and-true solution: install a lot of bike racks. The council voted 4-1 […]

Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”

By Pam MacLean | Apr 17, 2009 | 12 Comments

Bicyclists disembark from the Sausalito ferry. Photo by Tom Murphy Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does […]

Sausalito to Study Improving Bike Path

By Tom Murphy | Mar 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

Any cyclist who has dodged cars on the main drag of Sausalito lately will be glad to hear the city has approved a $100,000 to study the safest bike route to the north end of town. The city has hired Alta Planning and Design to recommend options to keep bikes rolling along the two-mile stretch […]