Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Calming

Octavia and Oak, where a unicyclist died Wed. morning. Note the gentle sweeping curb to facilitate speed (which multiple motorists still managed to crash into) Image: Google Maps

Motorists Kill Two Cyclists and a Pedestrian as Carnage Continues in Oakland, S.F.

By Roger Rudick | Jun 2, 2022 | No Comments

Officials in the Bay Area think by using inexpensive plastic and paint (and sometimes gently curving, concrete curbs) they're designing streets to keep everybody safe, motorists included. But what they're really doing is transferring the consequences of reckless driving from the perpetrators to everyone else. These past few weeks we've seen the tragic results.

Telegraph's protected bike lane. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

OakDOT Wants to Rip Out Protected Bike Lanes on Telegraph

By Roger Rudick | Jun 3, 2021 | No Comments

Five years ago Oakland pioneered protected bike lanes in the Bay Area with an installation in the KONO... now they may rip them out

Matt Starkey, the Presidio’s transportation engineer, on the right hanging out on a Presidio Bike Lane on Graham Street. Photos: Streetsblog/Rudick

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Eyes on the Street: Presidio’s “Advisory Bike Lanes”

By Roger Rudick | May 25, 2021 | No Comments

The Presidio scores another first in safe-street design in the Bay Area

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Upper Market Street Gets First Phase of Safety Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 20, 2015 | 19 Comments

The SFMTA has completed its first wave of safety upgrades on Upper Market Street. The changes include painted sidewalk extensions (a.k.a. “safety zones”), high-visibility crosswalks, and signs prohibiting drivers from turning right at red lights. SFMTA officials and Supervisor Scott Wiener held a press conference today to mark the completion of the improvements between Octavia […]

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SFMTA Approves 2nd Street Protected Bike Lane Redesign, Ponders Car Bans

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 19, 2015 | 35 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors yesterday unanimously approved a redesign of Second Street which will remove traffic lanes and add safety upgrades like raised, protected bike lanes and sidewalk extensions. After years of delay, SFMTA Board members and some attendees at the meeting said it may not go far enough, and that the agency should consider car restrictions […]

McAllister Street Set to Get Two Traffic Circles Instead of Signals

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2015 | 54 Comments

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. Under the plan [PDF], which must be approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors, McAllister would become the first street to get traffic circles […]

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