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Letter From London: What a Mayoral Commitment to Cycling Looks Like

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

A few weeks after SF Mayor Ed Lee displayed a total lack of commitment to the city’s Bike Strategy, London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced an aggressive $1.3 billion plan for a comprehensive bike network, including protected bike lanes. Streetsblog NYC‘s Stephen Miller reports: “Cycling will be treated not as niche, marginal, or an afterthought, but […]

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As Bike-Share Pilot Lurches Along, Supe Wiener Calls for Full-Scale Launch

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2013 | 17 Comments

While San Franciscans eagerly await the repeatedly-delayed launch of the Bay Area’s small-scale bike-share pilot program, which has now been downsized to a minuscule 700 bikes (350 of them in SF), Supervisor Scott Wiener says San Francisco needs to take the initiative to move ahead and launch a “full-scale system” throughout the city by next year. Wiener plans […]

Lessons From London After 10 Years of the Congestion Charge

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 15, 2013 | No Comments

A Republican member of Congress told me last week that he recently was in London for the first time in a long while. “Traveling was so much better,” he said. “You can actually get around. That traffic-charging system they’ve got seems to be doing a lot of good.” London’s system — known formally as congestion […]

Berkeley City Council Hesitates to Fund More Sunday Streets Events

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 25, 2013 | 9 Comments

Berkeley residents are clamoring for more street openings following the city’s first Sunday Streets event last October, where an estimated 43,000 people enjoyed 17 car-free blocks of Shattuck Avenue. But the Berkeley City Council has been hesitant to make a full commitment to bring back the events on a regular basis. Livable Berkeley, the sponsor of […]

Coming Next Week: Streetsblog Chicago

By Ben Fried | Jan 17, 2013 | No Comments

After setting up transportation news sites covering New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and national policy, next Tuesday Streetsblog will be expanding for the first time in four years with the launch of Streetsblog Chicago. The reporters producing Streetsblog Chicago are John Greenfield and Steven Vance, who have built an impressive audience for local transportation […]

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SF Has to Pick Up the Pace on Downtown Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 6, 2012 | 19 Comments

Bicycling in San Francisco is getting better since the bicycle injunction was lifted in 2010, and concrete progress on projects like the critical Fell and Oak Street bikeway is very encouraging. But this week also made bicyclists in SF painfully aware that as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency gets closer to completing the projects in its […]

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