Bryan Goebel
Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
Recent Posts
How to Build a Bike
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From SFBC: Come learn an overview of the different ways of building bikes, design and fitting concepts, the tools required, how to draw a bike plan, component selection, and much more. Free; Contact: julianagallin@gmail.com
SFBC New Member Meet and Greet
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From SFBC: Been an SF Bicycle Coalition member less than a year? New members are invited to join us to learn about SF Bicycle Coalition advocacy, education and community programs that will make SF a model cycling city, and how you can get involved. This is a great opportunity to learn more about your friendly […]
SFBC Intro to Safe Biking
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From SFBC: This four-hour, in-classroom introductory course is perfect for anyone who wants to feel more comfortable riding on city streets. This class will cover the basics for how to choose the right bike and fit a helmet. Learn tips for the safest ways to ride in traffic, techniques to avoid or deal with road […]
Connecting the City Outreach for JFK Drive Bikeway
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From SFBC: Help gain support for a continuous, wide and comfortable bikeway on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, making sure you will be riding on this bikeway in a few months! If you’re an Outreach Trained SF Bicycle Coalition member and want to see JFK Drive transformed email Tessa@sfbike.org to volunteer
SFBC Survey Ride: Bay Trail Bikeway
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From SFBC: What will it take to make San Francisco a world-class bicycling city, where continuous prioritized crosstown bikeways offer safe, comfortable, inviting routes for people of all ages and abilities to ride? With Connecting the City, the SF Bicycle Coalition sets out a road map to the realization of a healthy, happy, sustainable San […]
Submit Your Questions for the Streetsblog Interview with Mayor Ed Lee
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told the Bay Citizen this week that Muni will apparently not be a priority for his administration. That’s troubling news but I can’t imagine Lee really feels that way. With 700,000 daily boardings, Muni affects that lives of so many San Franciscans but is over capacity, struggling to find new […]
Family of Bicyclist Killed by Drunk Driver Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
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Lawyers for the family of Nils Yannick Linke have filed a wrongful death lawsuit [pdf] against Joshua Calder, the Oakland man charged with drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter for allegedly mowing down the 22-year-old as he was riding a bicycle on Masonic Avenue last August. The suit also names Calder’s girlfriend, Nicole Mairs, and her […]
N-Judah Transit Bulb Proposal To Go Before SFMTA Board Next Week
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A proposal [pdf] to significantly improve sidewalk conditions for N-Judah riders in Cole Valley is headed to the SFMTA Board for approval with some modifications. As we wrote in November, the current sidewalks on Carl Street at Cole and Stanyan can’t accommodate the thousands of passengers who use the stops daily, so riders waiting for […]
Public Transit Funding Slightly Better in Jerry Brown’s Proposed Budget
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For the first time in three years, California public transit agencies could see a full dose of funding from the State Transit Assistance (STA) fund, thanks in large part to the passage of Proposition 22, which prevents legislators from raiding local government funds, and Governor Jerry Brown, who announced his “painful” budget plan yesterday. The […]
David Chiu: Bike Network Expansion Is Transportation Priority #1
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Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who for the past 24 hours has served as Acting Mayor of San Francisco, said expanding the city’s bike network will be his number one transportation priority in the coming year, along with pedestrian safety and improving Muni’s reliability and performance. “First and foremost, as someone who bikes every […]
San Francisco Will Be Governed by a Car-Free Mayor for Next 24 Hours
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If you see a guy in a suit pedaling up Polk Street or around City Hall in the next 24 hours on an electric bike, just know that it might be your mayor. Today at 1 p.m., as Gavin Newsom was finally sworn in as lieutenant governor, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu became the […]
Car-Free District 3 Supervisor David Chiu Reelected Board President
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Supervisor David Chiu, a key player in the city’s sustainable transportation movement who gets around on his electric bicycle, was reelected president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this afternoon on an 8-3 vote. The 40-year-old District 3 supervisor called on his colleagues to “move beyond the past oppositional politics of personality” and build […]