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It's also a good lesson on how to tell if your city leaders are serious about mode shift or safety, because relative to Paris, the Bay Area is clearly full of merde

The police department continues to ignore enforcement of the five most dangerous behaviors; prefers to bully people on bikes

The cycling community is outraged by the death and demands action.

Another person killed by city's unsafe streets. Streetsblog calls again for physical, concrete separation between bicyclists and moving cars

There are three things that the city could do within weeks that would make a demonstrable impact on pedestrian safety

You can have any bike lane you want, as long as it's unprotected center running, says SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin

Only 13 percent of people supported abandoning the Dutch-style plan in favor of center-running in last year's SFMTA outreach. Decades of Dutch and Danish planning experience shows center-running doesn't work. But the city forges ahead despite public opinion and international best practices. Join a growing chorus and tell the city to stop gaslighting cyclists and build for safety, not parking.

Advocates give up the fight for Dutch-style protected bike lanes on Valencia. They're making a huge mistake.

In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.