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Eyes on the Street: What Do You Think of the New SFO Bike Lanes?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 50 Comments

New bike lanes were recently installed around San Francisco International Airport, and the reviews are coming in. Streetsblog San Francisco reader John Murphy, who was the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s 2010 Commuter of the Year, thinks there’s lots of room for improvement. He sent us this scolding review, along with the photos: The new bike […]

SRTS Conference 2011: NYC Student Activist Inspires National Audience

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 19, 2011 | No Comments

Only two speakers at this week’s Safe Routes to School National Conference in Minneapolis earned a standing ovation. For former Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar the crowd stood out of honor and gratitude. For Kimberly White, the audience shot out of their seats with sheer awe and inspiration. A resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, and a sophomore […]

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Breathtaking Bike Infrastructure: Minneapolis’s Martin Olav Sabo Bridge

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 11, 2011 | No Comments

In 2007, in order to route cyclists away from a challenging 7-lane crossing on busy Hiawatha Avenue, Minneapolis built the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge. The first cable-stayed bridge of any kind in the state, it’s breathtaking, even to the people who have been riding it for years. It provides a safe, continuous crossing and offers […]

Feds Call “All Hands On Deck” For Detroit Transit

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 10, 2011 | No Comments

For the last two days, transit experts from around the country have been hunkered down in Detroit to devote their collective expertise to making the Motor City a better city for transit. The Federal Transit Administration convened the panel, which included current and former transit agency leaders from Salt lake City, Denver, Portland, Atlanta and […]

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Riding Bogotá’s Bountiful Protected Bikeways

By Elizabeth Press | Aug 9, 2011 | No Comments

Since 1998, Bogotá, Colombia has built more than 300 kilometers of protected bikeways. Streetfilms recently had the chance to explore the city’s bike network with the man responsible for building it, former mayor Enrique Peñalosa. “When we build very high quality bicycle infrastructure, besides protecting cyclists, it shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle […]

Whose Streets?

By Chris Carlsson | Aug 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

“Whose Streets? OUR Streets!” yell rowdy demonstrators when they surge off the sidewalk and into thoroughfares. True enough, the streets are our public commons, what’s left of it (along with libraries and our diminishing public schools), but most of the time these public avenues are dedicated to the movement of vehicles, mostly privately owned autos. […]

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