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SFMTA Shops Folsom Buffered Bike Lane at Crowded Community Meeting
The SFMTA's proposal to widen the Folsom Street bike lane with a buffer zone and remove a general traffic lane drew significant turnout at a community meeting in SoMa yesterday evening. The project, set to be installed by the end of the year, seems to have strong support from residents and livable streets advocates as a short-term measure to make Folsom safer.
October 24, 2013
Shifting Direction, SFMTA Brings Bay Area Bike Share to New Neighborhoods
The next 15 Bay Area Bike Share stations to be rolled out in San Francisco won't fill in the system's existing downtown footprint as originally planned -- instead, planners have decided it's time to bring the system out to neighborhoods like the Mission, the Castro, Hayes Valley, and Mission Bay sooner than expected.
October 17, 2013
Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes, Road Diet on Folsom in the Mission
The Mission's stretch of Folsom Street, between 19th and 24th Streets, just got safer with bike lanes and a road diet striped along with a road-repaving.
October 15, 2013
The Sloppy Reporting Behind KTVU’s Eulogy for Re-Purposed Parking Spaces
Perhaps we shouldn't expect much from KTVU these days in the way of fact-checking -- Bay Area viewers should be used to the exceptional sloppiness seen in reports like the attempted hit on bike-share, the self-documented harassment of bicycle riders who don't wear helmets, and, of course, the infamous fake names of pilots involved in the Asiana plane crash at SFO.
October 4, 2013
The Sorry State of Double-Parking Enforcement on SF Streets
There's no question: Double-parking in San Francisco is rampant, and it routinely causes danger for people on bicycles and delays for Muni riders.
October 2, 2013
SFMTA to Widen Bike Lane, Remove Traffic Lane on Folsom in SoMa
The SFMTA will re-purpose a general traffic lane to widen and buffer the existing bike lane on Folsom Street between Fourth and 11th Streets by the end of the year, the agency announced today.
October 1, 2013
Eyes on the Street: Bike Lanes on Cesar Chavez, Green Wave on 11th
Two bicycling upgrades were spotted in the eastern neighborhoods this past week: Preliminary striping for bike lanes on western Cesar Chavez Street and a "green wave" on 11th Street in west SoMa.
September 30, 2013
Protected Bike Lanes, Dual Bus Lanes Still Left Out of Potrero Ave. Plan
The latest proposals for a redesign of Potrero Avenue include no protected bike lanes and only one transit lane, while the removal of any of the street's four lanes devoted primarily to private car traffic remains off the table.
September 25, 2013
Muni Metro to Launch Double-Train Loading, Three-Car Trains in October
Muni is poised to begin double-train loading and running three-car trains at underground metro stations to speed up boarding and increase capacity on the system's busiest stretch.
September 23, 2013
Muni to Test Seat Reconfiguration to Make More Room on Light-Rail Vehicles
After a nudge from two city supervisors, Muni is looking to convert forward- and backward-facing seats to side-facing seats in its light-rail train cars as a way to squeeze in more passengers and speed up boarding.
September 18, 2013