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SF Bike Coalition Kicks off Plans for 2018
Physically protected bike lanes are coming to Valencia Street. "We are pretty sure some segments can be designed and implemented as soon as this Fall," said Janice Li, advocacy director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, to 120 people who attended its annual member meeting Wednesday evening at the Google Community Space on the Embarcadero. She added that the first stakeholder meetings for the Valencia bike-lane improvements "will be coming in March or April ... we’re really going to need to build a lot of support."
February 1, 2018
SPUR Talk: Political Lessons from London and New York
Turns out the Bay Area's special transportation and planning challenges aren't so special after all
January 31, 2018
Update on the Hairball Bike Path
The city placed boulders under the ramps to deter encampments--what about the bike paths?
January 29, 2018
Bike and Ped Master Plan for Alameda County’s Unincorporated Areas
Joe Lamberti, who rides his daughter to Golden Oak Montessori School in Castro Valley on his cargo bike, was stark about bike and pedestrian infrastructure in Alameda County's unincorporated areas. "It sucks!" he said while heading into last night's charette about bike and ped plans, held at the Castro Valley library.
January 18, 2018
SPUR Talk: Designing Cities to Reduce Emissions
Building dense housing around transit stations, encouraging lower emission and electric cars, designing cities to encourage walking and biking--those are all great policies. But how does one measure whether the policies are actually lowering CO2 emissions from automobiles? That was the subject of a forum today at SPUR's San Francisco location.
January 17, 2018
Marin Decision Highlights Urgent Need for State Legislation to Protect Vulnerable Road Users
Last February, Jan Weissenberger was riding his bike from the Larkspur Ferry terminal to his home in San Rafael, when, as he was heading north on Ross Common, he was passed close on his right by crazed motorist Matthew Marshall Engle, driving a dark-red SUV. Engle blasted his horn, screamed threats, and backed his car at him.
January 10, 2018
Advocates and City Officials Discuss Progress on Vision Zero
"Think about how fast you're driving. Think about that next stop sign. Just think if you're driving a motor vehicle," said Alvin Lester, co-founder of Bay Area Families for Safe Streets, and the father of 21-year-old Arman, who was killed in 2014 while riding his skateboard at 3rd and Cargo Way in San Francisco. Lester made his plea at a press event at City Hall this morning, held to discuss the apparent success in reducing fatalities and serious injuries on San Francisco's streets in 2017.
January 4, 2018
City Lets Cargo Way Protected Bike Lane Fall Apart
As cyclists who use Cargo Way in the Hunters Point/Bayview neighborhood know all too well, the bike lane, once celebrated as San Francisco's first on-street protected bike lane, is in a state of disrepair, with broken pavement, a dangerous, tire-grabbing groove, and a busted fence. And in a stark display of how some city officials regard bicycle safety, the city repaved the adjacent car/truck lanes in August, but skipped the bike lane.
January 3, 2018
What’s going on with SFMTA’s 16th Street Transit Improvement Project?
The $67.5 million 16th Street improvement project, part of SFMTA's 'Muni Forward' plan to improve bus reliability and run times, is supposedly on schedule and on budget. But there's decidedly little to see on the street.
December 21, 2017
Third Street Bridge Detour and the Temporary Berry Bike Lane
Mission Bay commuters are no doubt aware that the Lefty O'Doul drawbridge on Third Street is currently locked in the upright position and, according to SF Public Works (DPW), will remain so until approximately January 26.
December 18, 2017
