Valencia

I don't know how else to put it: if you ride a bike, stay away from the street. Take BART, the bus, walk... do what you must, but don't ride a bike on Valencia Street because it's unsafe

SFMTA needs to rip this dangerous facility out and put in the approved Dutch-style, side-running bike lanes immediately

In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.

With new protected lanes on (parts of) Howard and Valencia, advocates ask: what's next?

It took untold lobbying hours, and too many crashes, but protected bike lanes on Valencia are finally getting built

Years of injuries, people-protected bike lane protests and fighting with Uber/Lyft finally grabs City Hall's attention

Sunday evening, Reena (she asked Streetsblog to withhold her last name), 34, was returning to San Francisco after a long ride through Marin on her carbon fiber road bike. She turned onto Valencia for the last few blocks to her apartment in the Mission. She was pedaling along at a leisurely eight mph, riding in the bike lane and watching out for opening car doors on her right, when somewhere between 14th and 15th, something hit her from her left.