Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Caltrans/Alameda County adds more paint to its unusable bike lanes. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick

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Whoop-De-Doo Paint Added to Oakland Hellscape

By Roger Rudick | Aug 14, 2019 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog receives a matrix of responses to its critique of the 23rd and 29th Avenue over-crossings in Oakland

Menlo Park plans to include just one five-foot wide bike lane on the south side of Haven Avenue, and no bike lane at all on the north side, where parallel parking will be removed. Photo: Andrew Boone

Bike Lane Gap in Menlo Park Bay Trail Route

By Andrew Boone | Jun 22, 2017 | 5 Comments

On Tuesday evening the Menlo Park City Council approved the construction of a new streetscape for Haven Avenue that will bring wide sidewalks to the block nearest Marsh Road where there are none today — but also leave a gap in bike lanes at a key location along the popular San Francisco Bay Trail route. The […]

Residents shot down a proposal to restrict motor vehicle parking along Santa Cruz Avenue at a community meeting in Oak Knoll Elementary School last Monday. Photo: Andrew Boone

Proposal to Remove Free Parking Riles Santa Cruz Avenue Residents

By Andrew Boone | Feb 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

Going by the results of a public meeting at Oak Knoll Elementary School in Menlo Park last Monday, San Mateo County traffic engineers have no options left to correct a dangerous five-lane stretch of Santa Cruz Avenue that runs from San Hill Road to Alameda de las Pulgas. “I’m one of the cyclists that has been hit […]

San Jose has designed larger curb radii into the newly widened Saint James Street, creating a new hazard for pedestrians. No crosswalk is included on the north side of the Saint James & Market street intersection. Image: City of San Jose

San Jose Makes Saint James Street More Dangerous

By Andrew Boone | Dec 20, 2016 | 6 Comments

Construction on San Jose’s huge North San Pedro plan is well underway. It removes a one-way, four-lane S-curve segment of Julian Street just east of Highway 87 and restores several blocks of the city’s original street grid. Removing that nasty S-curve and replacing it with a grid is good, but much of the North San Pedro plan still screams “car […]

San Mateo County Bike-Ped Advisory Boards Seek Applicants

By Andrew Boone | Nov 4, 2016 | No Comments

Deadlines are near for several Board and Committee positions in San Mateo County. Applications are due today for two vacancies on the SamTrans Board of Directors, while the City/County Association of Governments seeks volunteers to fill four vacancies on its 15-member Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (C/CAG BPAC), due Nov. 14. Caltrain is taking applications […]

Santa Clara Proposes New San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail Detours

By Andrew Boone | Sep 26, 2016 | 9 Comments

On Tuesday, the Santa Clara City Council approved a proposal [PDF] to build new detours of the San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail, over two years after the construction of Levi’s Stadium has resulted in ongoing closures of the trail “to limit security breaches” on days with stadium events over 20,000 attendees. Despite objections from both the public and […]

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