Bicycle Infrastructure

Officials in the Bay Area think by using inexpensive plastic and paint (and sometimes gently curving, concrete curbs) they're designing streets to keep everybody safe, motorists included. But what they're really doing is transferring the consequences of reckless driving from the perpetrators to everyone else. These past few weeks we've seen the tragic results.

What personal choices must we make and what policies should we advocate for to cut consumption of petroleum before it completely wrecks our world?

Dangerous motorist behaviors, such as speeding, crosswalk incursions, and going the wrong way on a one-way street, are tolerated by law enforcement and a judicial system that basically never suspends or revokes the license of even the most egregious offenders.

"A bike network is only as good as its weakest link, and this is the weakest link for trying to move north-south."

For "Bike to Wherever" day, Streetsblog went to enjoy a block of Amsterdam right in the middle of the Bay Area

Mapping the Tragedy of San Francisco's Streets

Another close call as the city waits and waits and waits on Valencia

A talk with the Bicycle Coalition's new Executive Director

"We share a city with some true maniacs who should be be allowed to drive."