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San Francisco’s State of Cycling: Is It Falling Behind?

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 19, 2012 | 42 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency released its four-year State of Cycling Report [PDF] this week. While the findings in the report may not be new to those keeping an eye on the growth of bicycling in San Francisco — which has jumped 71 percent from 2006 to 2011 — bike advocates say it highlights the […]

Bike Donation Program to Benefit East Palo Alto Elementary Students

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

Brent Butler was leading a bicycle rodeo in East Palo Alto for the city’s first Streets Alive event last year when he realized just how many children were there without bikes. “What I decided to do is continue to teach the rules of the road even if we don’t have bicycles,” said Butler, the city’s […]

The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike

By Brian Addison | Sep 18, 2012 | No Comments

Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and keynote speaker at last week’s National Women’s Bicycling Summit, in Long Beach, California, was very succinct with her main point about a bike: “This is not a bike.” The bike is a tool, she intoned; a tool that helps generate economic stability, community cohesiveness, and gender […]

Is This the Best Transit Ad Ever?

By Brad Aaron | Sep 14, 2012 | No Comments

SF editor’s note: I can personally vouch for the speed, reliability and comfort of Midttrafik, as I relied on it during my semester in Denmark. The idea of investing in transit is popular with Americans, even among those who don’t depend on it. But trains and buses, buses in particular, have always had an image […]

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How Handicap Placard Abuse Threatens SF’s Parking Reforms

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 31, 2012 | 47 Comments

If cities needed any more reason to curb handicap placard abuse, here it is. The authors of a new study out of Los Angeles point out that rampant placard abuse threatens to undermine performance parking programs like SFPark by skewing the data and the price of parking, the Atlantic Cities explains: If a city has […]

Streetscape and Bike Improvements on Tap for Burlingame

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 27, 2012 | 48 Comments

Burlingame is moving forward on a project to give its downtown boulevard a much-needed facelift, and planning a number of citywide bike improvements. Key features of the four-block Burlingame Avenue Streetscape Project include a gateway, wider sidewalks, shorter crossings, street furniture, large bulb-outs, “play areas” with public chess sets and parklets. The project was approved earlier […]

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