Bicycling

Late last week, Janice Li, Advocacy Director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, stopped by City Hall to pull papers and officially begin her campaign for the District 8 seat of the BART Board

SFMTA planners and engineers unveiled three initial design proposals for re-configuring the bike lanes on Valencia Street.

Some sixty advocates from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, and more from other street safety groups, came to today's SFMTA board meeting to demand the agency reinstate the Townsend Corridor Improvement Project

After years of safety plans languishing in interdepartmental hell, SFBC renews calls for fixing the Embarcadero

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.