Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Separated Bike Path

South Bay Cities Build Region’s First Separated Bike Lanes

By Andrew Boone | Sep 1, 2016 | 8 Comments

New on-street bike lanes separated from auto traffic are nearing completion in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and a handful of neighboring cities have plans to install them too. Separated bike infrastructure gained traction among local planners after Caltrans approved Class IV Separated Bikeway design standards [PDF] in December 2015. The first protected intersections were built […]

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New Federal Guide Will Show More Cities the Way on Protected Bike Lanes

By Michael Andersen | May 20, 2015 | No Comments

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. Protected bike lanes are now officially star-spangled. Eight years after New York City created a trailblazing protected bikeway on 9th Avenue, designs once perceived as unfit for American streets have now been detailed in a new […]

Widening El Camino Real in Menlo Park Won’t Cut Traffic, But Bike Lanes Will

By Andrew Boone | Feb 25, 2015 | 3 Comments

Redesigning El Camino Real to squeeze in more cars will cause more cars to squeeze into El Camino Real, warned the consultant working on a redesign of the street in downtown Menlo Park last week. But creating a safe street for people to get around without a car can actually cut traffic. At a community […]

Parking-Protected Bike Lanes Partially Back in Oakland’s Telegraph Ave Plan

By Melanie Curry | Nov 26, 2014 | 16 Comments

If all goes according to plan, Oakland could get its first parking-protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue next spring. The final draft of the Telegraph plan was released this week, and previously-dropped parking-protected bike lanes were re-introduced in downtown Oakland, between 20th and 29th streets. Buffered bike lanes are planned on the block south of […]

Gov’s Report to Caltrans: Get Out of the Way of Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2014 | 6 Comments

Caltrans needs to stop focusing so much on moving cars and let cities build safer street designs with protected bike lanes, says a new report commissioned by Governor Jerry Brown and CA Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly. The report [PDF] calls out Caltrans’ “archaic” practices when it comes to imposing outdated, automobile-centric design standards on city streets in California, and says […]

SFBC: City Commits to Pilot Redesign of Folsom With Separated Bikeways

By Ben Fried | Sep 6, 2013 | 8 Comments

Hi everyone, greetings from New York. Aaron is currently away on a well-deserved break from running Streetsblog SF. He’ll be back next week delivering the livable streets news. In the meantime, consider this post an open thread about this development: WE DID IT! City commits to pilot redesign of #Folsom Street that includes separated bikeways! […]

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