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SFMTA Delays Fell and Oak Bikeways to Spring 2013 to Create More Parking
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.
January 20, 2012
SFMTA Finalizing Fell and Oak Bikeway Design. Will It Be Ready By Summer?
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.
January 18, 2012
How Mayor Lee Can Make 2012 a Landmark Year for Bicycling in SF
With Mayor Ed Lee inaugurated yesterday to his first full term, Streetsblog is asking leading advocates and experts to lay out their ideas for how the mayor can move San Francisco's transportation policy forward. Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, kicks things off with today's installment.
January 9, 2012
Bikeway Update: JFK Drive Coming in January, East Cesar Chavez in March
Update: An explanation for the delay of the JFK bikeway project was provided by SFMTA staff below.
December 7, 2011
JFK Bikeway Gets Final Approval From Rec and Parks Commission
San Francisco bicycle advocates are celebrating a major milestone after the city's first parking-protected bike lane cleared its final hurdle yesterday. The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission approved the John F. Kennedy Drive bikeway, which will be installed in Golden Gate Park this December.
October 21, 2011
JFK Bikeway Project Faces One Last Hurdle Before December Arrival
Anticipation is building for the arrival of San Francisco's first parking-buffered cycle track along the eastern stretch of John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park this December. The project received approval from the Golden Gate Park Concourse Authority on Wednesday, and the final step in its approval will come at a Recreation and Parks Commission hearing on October 20.
October 7, 2011
Think Bike Workshops Offer a “Dutch Touch” on Three Key Corridors
The delegation of Dutch experts who were in San Francisco this week for a series of Think Bike workshops with city officials, bike advocates, transportation planners and others honed in on three critical corridors: Market Street between 5th and 9th, Polk Street between Broadway and Union streets, and The Wiggle.
September 22, 2011
Lessons from Amsterdam: How SF Can Bicycle Toward Greatness
It’s not often that you get to take your idea of utopia out for a test ride. But that’s what I was lucky enough to do for seven months last year while on sabbatical in Amsterdam.
September 19, 2011
A Year After Bike Injunction Lifting, SF Blazes Ahead With Improvements
It was one year ago last Thursday that a San Francisco judge freed the city from its four-year-old bicycle injunction, and allowed the SFMTA to finally begin building out the long stalled Bike Plan. Since the chains were unlocked, the number of bicyclists on the streets has dramatically risen, thanks in no small part to the new infrastructure that has made cycling more inviting to people of all ages.
August 11, 2011
Neighborhood Outreach Continues for Fell and Oak Bikeways
Fourteen years of community-driven efforts to improve conditions on Fell and Oak Streets around the Panhandle are finally paying off. The outreach continues on a vision for separated bikeways that would provide San Franciscans safe access to the flattest route connecting the western neighborhoods to areas east while making the neighborhood more livable for residents and businesses.
July 27, 2011