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Eyes on the Street: Portola Drive Bike Lanes Get Striped
SFMTA crews were out striping bike lanes on Portola Drive today from O'Shaughnessy Boulevard to St. Francis Circle. The new lanes complement those striped on the rest of the street in recent months.
December 6, 2011
Funding Approved for Masonic EIR and Cargo Way Protected Bikeway
The Masonic Avenue Streetscape Project took another step forward today after the board of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority approved funding to conduct an environmental impact report (EIR). The board also gave the green light to funds to construct the city's first on-street two-way protected bike lane on Cargo Way in Hunter's Point.
October 25, 2011
New Designs to Be Presented for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street
New designs have been drawn up for eastern Cesar Chavez Street and will be presented to the community next week, nearly two months after a contentious meeting in which attendees were told, just days before the striping of new bike lanes, that plans for a road diet were being scrapped by the Mayor's Office and Port of San Francisco because of concerns from industrial businesses about reducing road capacity for trucks hauling goods.
August 17, 2011
New Bike Lanes Completed on Illinois, Sagamore, and Alemany Boulevard
Bicycle riders can enjoy bike lanes on three new routes striped within the last couple of months, as the SFMTA continues to roll out the city's Bicycle Plan.
July 20, 2011
Funds to Keep Bike Plan Projects Rolling Approved by Supes Committee
In post-bike injunction San Francisco, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is gearing up to install some of the final bicycle projects held up in the Bike Plan for several years.
May 23, 2011
SFMTA Crews Begin Striping Alemany Boulevard Buffered Bike Lanes
Alemany Boulevard will soon be dramatically safer for cycling as SFMTA crews began striping the city's newest stretch of buffered bike lanes today.
May 19, 2011
Work Begins on Upper Market Street Bike Lane Improvements
Preparations for improvements [pdf] to the Upper Market Street bike lanes are underway and when completed will mark a step towards safer passage for travelers by bike at three intersections along the city's busiest bike corridor, where a vision for a protected bikeway was dropped nearly forty years ago.
May 3, 2011
A Letter to the New York Times: Safe Streets Are Family-Friendly Streets
In light of Scott James’ egregious hit piece on the Bike Plan that ran in the New York Times today, I’ve decided to write the editors of that paper a letter, from a genuine resident of 17th Street.
April 22, 2011
In Ideal Weather, SFMTA Crews Install Bike Boxes on Market and Van Ness
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.
March 30, 2011