Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

A center-running bike lane in DC. Photo by Ole Kassow. All other photos by the author except where indicated

A Deep Dive Into Center-Running Bike Lanes, a Known Infrastructure Failure

By Mikael Colville-Andersen | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.

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Traffic Safety Bills Pass First Committee

By Melanie Curry | Mar 22, 2023 | No Comments

"Daylighting" intersections, studying weight-based vehicle registration fees, allowing bikes on sidewalks where there's no other safe option

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Three Things To Know About the National Lithium-Ion Battery Fire ‘Epidemic’

By Kea Wilson | Mar 20, 2023 | No Comments

Sustainable transportation advocates are calling for common-sense trade regulations, consumer education, and other reforms to keep prevent fires involving defective lithium-ion batteries — while simultaneously fighting misinformation that threatens to explode into a culture war against electric microbility.

A 2017 protest for safety on Valencia between 16th and 17th. SFMTA wants to betray the years of protest and public support with its center running crap. Photo by Brandon Splane

Advocates Push Back Against Valencia Center-Running-Bike-Lane Bait-and-Switch

By Roger Rudick | Mar 17, 2023 | No Comments

Let's be clear: center running is worse than nothing

A lone cyclist goes contraflow on SFMTA's new plastic and paint only two-way bike lane on Battery. Photos: Streetsblog/Rudick

San Francisco Officially Opens Two-Way Battery Bike Lane

By Roger Rudick | Mar 15, 2023 | No Comments

It's sad that SFMTA, in 2023, with record fatalities due to traffic violence in 2022, is still "experimenting" on humans and building and boasting about such bare-bone, "better than nothing" designs.

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California Trainin’: A Chicagoan Checks Out Transportation in the Golden State

By John Greenfield | Mar 15, 2023 | No Comments

Here's a show-and-tell of my impressions of the walk/bike/transit stuff I experienced, including a few things I'd be glad to see implemented in Chicago.

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