Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Parking

Bike Station Opens at Civic Center BART After Two Years of Delay

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 18, 2015 | 7 Comments

A bike parking and repair station opened at Civic Center Station today, providing BART and Muni Metro riders secure parking for 89 bikes, accessible only with a paid key card. Bike racks with another 60 spots were added outside the paid station area, adding to 63 existing rack spots. The paid parking was originally expected […]

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SFMTA Postpones Expansion of Bike Parking in City-Owned Garages

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 22, 2015 | 24 Comments

The SFMTA has held off on installing mandated bike parking in seven city-owned garages due to “very low usage,” as SocketSite reported this week. Bike advocates say the parking hasn’t been advertised well. Under an ordinance approved in 2013, bicycle parking requirements were increased for new development as well as city-owned and -leased buildings and parking garages. “We want the […]

Caltrain Struggles to Meet Bike Parking Demand at 4th and King Station

By Stan Parkford | Dec 17, 2014 | 19 Comments

The Caltrain Bike Station parking facility outside its terminal at Fourth and King streets is set to be remodeled and slightly expanded to accommodate the growing number of Peninsula train commuters who are arriving by bike. But demand from bike-to-Caltrain commuters may continue to overwhelm the small, staffed bike station. Paltry funding over the years proved insufficient for Warm […]

Berkeley Bike Station Contract Extended — For Now

By Melanie Curry | Jun 27, 2014 | 3 Comments

Buried in Tuesday evening’s Berkeley City Council agenda was a resolution to extend the contract on the Downtown Berkeley Bike Station for one more year, at its current terms. The station moved to its current street-level storefront location in the historic Shattuck Hotel building in 2010 after extensive renovations to the former retail space, and […]

Mission Boasts USA’s Largest Bike Corral; 55 Across SF Park 668 Bikes

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 28, 2014 | 37 Comments

Four years after the SFMTA started converting curbside car parking into bike parking with bike corrals, the city now has 55 corrals that can lock 668 bikes — and still more are on the way. Most bike corrals replace one car space with about five bike racks, each parking two bikes, and are requested by merchants who […]

Silicon Valley’s First “Bike to Shop Day” Set for May 17

By Andrew Boone | Apr 24, 2014 | No Comments

Planning to build on the wave of enthusiasm for bike commuting generated each May by Bike to Work Day, transportation and health advocates in Silicon Valley are promoting a spin-off called Bike to Shop Day on Saturday, May 17, to encourage people to shop by bike at local businesses. Retail businesses offering discounts to bicycling customers are shown on […]

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