Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Design

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Cargo, Electric-Assist Bikes Gain Traction Among SF Families

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 25, 2014 | 21 Comments

At Rosa Parks Elementary School in the Western Addition, the bike racks are filling up. Even with San Francisco’s hills and often far-flung school assignments, Dorie Apollonio thinks she and her family have helped start a trend at the school ever since they started dropping the kids off by bicycle from their home in Parnassus Heights. […]

Think Bike Workshops Offer a “Dutch Touch” on Three Key Corridors

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

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. What resulted from the day-long […]

Bike Advocates Seek to Reform Obscure Caltrans Committee

By Bryan Goebel | May 19, 2011 | 12 Comments

For decades, a little known Caltrans advisory committee dominated by highway and automobile interests has been setting the design standards for signs, signals and pavement markings for California’s urban streets. If a city wants a green bike lane, it has to be approved by the California Traffic Control Devices Committee (CTCDC), which also develops the […]

In Ideal Weather, SFMTA Crews Install Bike Boxes on Market and Van Ness

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 30, 2011 | 10 Comments

Working in 80 degree weather, smiling SFMTA crews installed two green bike boxes in both directions of Market Street at Van Ness Avenue today, the latest pieces of innovative infrastructure to grace the city’s main thoroughfare, which continues to become a much friendlier street for people who bike, walk and take transit. In addition to […]

Commentary: Why Are We Building Bikes Lanes That Are Hurting People?

By Joshua Hart | Nov 8, 2010 | 130 Comments

As one of the certified bicycle safety instructors working with San Francisco’s Bike Ed program, the most important safety concept we try to get across to our students is that cyclists should never ride closer than 4 feet from any parked car. The reason is that getting ‘doored’ is the single most common cause of […]

SFPD Increases Enforcement on Wiggle as SFMTA Ponders Signal Priority

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 9, 2010 | 96 Comments

A bicyclist waits to turn left onto Fell from Scott, where SFPD officers have been ticketing cyclists for running the red light. Photos: Bryan Goebel. It’s no secret that many bicyclists pedaling through one of San Francisco’s most popular bicycling corridors, The Wiggle, often run the red light turning onto Fell Street from Scott. Whether […]

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