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Public Works shows off its new protected-bike-lane street-cleaning machines

In San Francisco, putting a bike share station at the top of a hill has predictable results. People are happy to rent one and roll on down the hill. Going the other direction, not so much. That results in empty bike share stations. "The topography challenge is very real," said Collin Waldoch, who manages the 'Bike Angels' program for the Bay Area and New York's bike share program.

RM3 passes, Mandelman takes District 8, and the Mayor is...???

Today is the first day of San Francisco's scooter ban.

There's a housing crisis. To achieve its environmental and mobility goals, the city is trying to build housing near shopping and transit. There's a 17-acre lot of city property, right near BART, Muni, a bus transit center, and shopping, but it's currently used as a surface parking lot.

SFMTA and Supervisor Malia Cohen follows through on plan to remove Paul Avenue bike lane

Before cities can make streets safer, they need good data on collisions--and that data has to be collected well, processed well, and easily accessible to transportation planners, explained Timothy Black with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. But, until recently, the department lacked those capabilities, "...despite being a department full of engineers, we were still looking at a mishmash of pdf docs and spreadsheets."

Walk San Francisco is asking people to sign a petition to urge the city to install a raised intersection at Page Street and Buchanan.

Even on new streets, city continues using dangerous, out-dated bike lane designs.