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McAllister Street Set to Get Two Traffic Circles Instead of Signals
McAllister Street, a popular bike route where SFMTA's Muni Forward planners want to speed up the 5-Fulton, would have stop signs replaced by traffic circles at two intersections under the agency's latest proposal.
July 23, 2015
SFMTA Wants to Remove King Street Bike Lanes, Won’t Improve Alternative
The SFMTA wants to remove bike lanes and sharrows on King Street in SoMa's South Beach area to discourage bicycling on the truck-heavy street, Hoodline reports.
July 17, 2015
Protected Bike Lanes Finally Coming to Folsom Street Near Transbay Center
The city will hold a public meeting on Thursday evening to present updates on a plan to install protected bike lanes on Folsom Street near the Transbay Transit Center, east of Second Street.
July 14, 2015
Cities Are Reinventing Transportation Planning for the Age of the Public Beta
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets.
July 10, 2015
Safer San Jose Avenue Advocates Fend Off Attacks From Angry Motorists
The redesign of San Jose Avenue took a step forward a month ago when Caltrans removed a traffic lane on a Highway 280 off-ramp leading on to San Jose, a.k.a. the Bernal Cut. The plan is the result of decades of neighborhood advocacy for safer streets, but it is running into opposition from motorists who won't stand for the road diet.
July 7, 2015
Caltrain Board Ups Bike Capacity, Dumps Bathrooms on Electric Trains
Note: An earlier version of this article's headline indicated that the increase in bike capacity came at the expense of bathrooms. The two were features were essentially unrelated.
July 2, 2015
America Could Have Been Building Protected Bike Lanes for the Last 40 Years
Salt Lake City is on track to implement the nation’s first "protected intersection" -- a Dutch-inspired design to minimize conflicts between cyclists and drivers at crossings. For American cities, this treatment feels like the cutting edge, but a look back at the history of bike planning in the United States reveals that even here, this idea is far from new. In fact, the protected intersection concept appeared in every foundational document for bike planning in the early 1970s. But no American city ever installed one until now -- here's why.
June 30, 2015
SFMTA Retracts Report of 651% Jump in Bike Traffic on San Jose Avenue
The SFMTA has retracted its report last week of a 651 percent jump in bicycling on northbound San Jose Avenue after a traffic lane was removed to widen the bike lane.
June 22, 2015
Parking-Protected Bike Lanes, Ped Safety Upgrades Coming to Division at 9th
Bike lanes on the block of Division Street between 9th and 10th Streets will get some much-needed protection this fall. Earlier this week the SFMTA Board of Directors approved a design that will put people on bikes between the curb and parked cars. The massive 9th and Division intersection will also get safety improvements like large painted curb extensions.
June 19, 2015