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Safer Path Could Help Untangle the “Alemany Maze” Highway Interchange
The "Alemany Maze," the deadly Highway 101 and 280 interchange in the southeast city, could get a safer crossing for walking and biking. Funding to study a walking path and bike lanes through the junction was approved this week by the SF County Transportation Authority Board of Directors, comprised of the Board of Supervisors.
June 26, 2015
Bayshore Blvd Gets Buffered Bike Lanes, But “Alemany Maze” Still a Barrier
The SFMTA extended the buffered bike lanes on Bayshore Boulevard earlier this month from Silver Avenue south to Paul Avenue, reducing four traffic lanes to two. The street now provides a calmer, safer bicycling link for Bayview residents all the way up to where Bayshore ends, at Cesar Chavez Street and the "Hairball" freeway interchange.
March 24, 2014
Cleaning Up SF’s Car-Littered Sidewalks Will Take More Than Parking Tickets
Cars littered on San Francisco's sidewalks are a painfully common sight. The problem is perhaps most prevalent in outer neighborhoods like the Sunset and Bayview, where, for decades, homeowners with residential garages have paved over their front yards. The pedestrian environment on these streets is left degraded, with swaths of dead space where families and people with disabilities are often forced to walk around an obstacle course of cars and driveway ramps.
January 28, 2013
POWER: Mobility for Low-Income San Franciscans Means Putting Transit First
Advocates for San Francisco's low-income communities have issued a new report calling for policy changes intended to improve Muni service, increase mobility for transit-dependent San Franciscans, reduce pollution from driving, and improve the city's economy.
January 18, 2013
Two-Way Protected Bikeway on Cargo Way Nearly Complete
San Francisco's first on-street, two-way protected bikeway is nearly complete, featuring bicycle traffic signals and green intersection bike markings. The bikeway, which is separated from motor vehicles by a fence and concrete median, provides a safer connection from Bayview and Hunter's Point to Third Street and the north-south bike lanes on Illinois Street.
August 20, 2012
Kick Back at Sunday Streets in Bayview, Dogpatch, and Potrero Hill
July's second Sunday Streets event returns to the Bayview, Dogpatch, and Potrero Hill neighborhoods this weekend, running from Mission Bay to the Bayview Opera House.
July 20, 2012
Bike Lane Progress on JFK, Bayshore, Cesar Chavez, and Cargo Way
Bike network expansions are going in at a rapid clip so far this spring. In Golden Gate Park, parking-protected bike lanes on John F. Kennedy Drive are mostly finished on the stretch in front of the Conservatory of Flowers, and drivers already seem to be picking up on the new parking arrangement.
April 6, 2012
Crews Installing Bike Lanes, Two-Way Bikeway on C. Chavez and Cargo Way
Two bike corridors connecting the city's southeastern neighborhoods should be safer after crews finish constructing buffered bike lanes on eastern Cesar Chavez Street and a two-way protected bikeway on Cargo Way.
March 21, 2012
Scenes from Sunday Streets in the Bayview, Dogpatch and Potrero Hill
Thousands of people took to the car-free streets of the Bayview, Dogpatch and Potrero Hill yesterday for a sunny Sunday Streets. Did you go? Please share your stories in the comments section, and see more photos below the break. The next Sunday Streets is July 12th on the Great Highway.
June 13, 2011
Sunday Streets to Grace Bayview, Potrero, and Dogpatch This Weekend
Many a cycling tot will get another chance to graduate from training wheels this Sunday on safe, car-free streets by the Bay. Sunday Streets returns to Bayview with a tweaked route this year to include the Lower Potero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods in the plethora of family-friendly activities.
June 10, 2011