Community, Advocacy and Labor

The SFMTA released its 2011 Bicycle Count Report [PDF] today, showing a continued citywide increase in bicycling in recent years.

Update: These orange bollards spotted in the parking lanes on JFK near Transverse Drive are a promising sign. 

San Francisco and four cities in Silicon Valley will launch the region's first bike-share system this July, implementing a new transportation option that cities around the world have embraced to expand access to bicycling.

Warm Planet Bikes has provided more and more Caltrain commuters a secure place to park their bikes at the Fourth and King Street Station in downtown San Francisco in recent years. But the shop could soon shut down without continued support from the public transportation agencies it relies on. Though Caltrain is developing an agreement to support the shop, it may not come until it's too late.

What would happen if, one day, the city decided to make better use of the car parking on a commercial corridor like Stockton Street in Chinatown?

The six-lane speedway known as Sloat Boulevard has been somewhat tamed after Caltrans implemented a road diet last week, reclaiming two vehicle lanes for bicycles.

Separated bikeways on Fell and Oak Streets won't come until spring 2013 at the earliest, nearly a year later than originally proposed, the SFMTA told Streetsblog today.

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.