Bicycling

Despite previous hit & run charge and video evidence, driver who ran down four cyclist receives minimal jail time

A hit-and-run driver slammed into a pedicab yesterday on the Embarcadero near Pier 29, sometime before 5 p.m., injuring a family, including two children. From the Fire Department's news feed, the victims sustained "serious injuries" and included a "five and an eight-year-old." It was later clarified that only the pedicab driver sustained life-threatening injuries, according to a report by CBS.

A push is on to get more people biking in the Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood of San Francisco.

Streetsblog tipster and advocate Brian Coyne brought this to our attention: "SFMTA's Sixth Street Safety Project, which Streetsblog has covered several times over the last few years, has now had the bike lane component removed." The plan, as shown on the agency's project page, is now to remove the bike facility and add an additional northbound car lane to the design.

This spring, as part of the Muni Forward project, the city installed two new traffic circles and two new signals on McAllister Street to improve the performance of the 5 Fulton bus.

Public Works shows off its new protected-bike-lane street-cleaning machines

In San Francisco, putting a bike share station at the top of a hill has predictable results. People are happy to rent one and roll on down the hill. Going the other direction, not so much. That results in empty bike share stations. "The topography challenge is very real," said Collin Waldoch, who manages the 'Bike Angels' program for the Bay Area and New York's bike share program.

SFMTA and Supervisor Malia Cohen follows through on plan to remove Paul Avenue bike lane

With last year's "Vision Zero" stats, memorial riders have hope for a safer future