Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Best Practices

BART Survey: Promising Findings for Lifting the Rush-Hour Bike Ban

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 1, 2012 | 21 Comments

BART released results Friday from its survey of riders’ attitudes toward the pilot program that lifted the rush-hour ban on bikes each Friday in August. Although BART and media reports have called the findings “split” and “varied,” the responses in some key areas look promising. The vast majority of the more than 7,500 respondents felt that […]

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SFMTA Drafting Design Standards to Streamline Innovative Bike Treatments

By Aaron Bialick | May 11, 2012 | 21 Comments

The SFMTA is developing a new engineering guide for bike infrastructure that should help bring street designs like protected bike lanes to more San Francisco streets. Known as the Innovative Bicycle Treatment Toolbox, the guide promises to accelerate the city’s adoption of high-quality bikeway design treatments. “The Innovative Bicycle Treatment Toolbox creates standardized guidance for […]

How Bikes Make Portland Cool

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2012 | 18 Comments

A mini-documentary out of Portland, Oregon showcases the vibrant bicycle culture the city enjoys, from “bike trains” of kids riding to school on traffic-calmed bike boulevards to a range of everyday people getting around by bike simply because it’s “accessible.” As San Francisco strives to be the most bike-friendly city on the west coast, we can […]

Danish Architect Jan Gehl on Good Cities for Bicycling

By Jan Gehl | Jun 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

Editor’s note: This is the final installment in our series this week featuring Danish architect and livable streets luminary Jan Gehl. The pieces are excerpts from his book, “Cities for People” published by Island Press. Donate to Streetsblog SF and you’ll qualify to win a copy of the book, courtesy of Island Press. Bicyclists represent […]

Danish Architect Jan Gehl on Cities for People: The Safe City

By Jan Gehl | Jun 13, 2011 | 9 Comments

Editor’s note: Streetsblog San Francisco is thrilled to launch a three-part series today by renowned Danish architect and livable streets luminary Jan Gehl. The pieces are excerpts are from his book, “Cities for People” published by Island Press. Donate to Streetsblog SF and you’ll qualify to win a copy of the book, courtesy of Island […]

The Political and Economic Implications of Bicycling Tourists

By Chris Carlsson | May 2, 2011 | 16 Comments

I’ve been bicycling in San Francisco since the late 1970s so I vividly remember when almost all bicyclists could recognize each other on the streets of the city. There really weren’t that many of us even as recently as the beginning of the 1990s, just two decades ago. We’ve come a long way, and one […]

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