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Eyes on the Street: San Francisco’s First Green Bike Box Remains Unfinished

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 22, 2009 | 21 Comments

A truck driver encroaches on a bicyclist in the green bike box. Photos by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco’s first green bike box, painted by a smiling group of electeds and bike activists earlier this month, was heralded as an important first step toward finally advancing some "innovative design treatments" in the city’s long-stalled Bicycle Plan. […]

Bay Area Advocates Unveil New VMT Reduction Incentive for Developers

By Matthew Roth | Dec 22, 2009 | 6 Comments

Photo: Michael Patrick Among the many strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) and attendant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private vehicles, Bay Area smart growth advocate TransForm has developed a new certification called GreenTRIP to encourage architects, developers, and municipal officials to build transit-oriented development and implement transportation demand management (TDM) solutions for future […]

Critical Mass Not the Only Universal Aspect of Bangalore Bike Activism

By Dave Snyder | Dec 22, 2009 | 7 Comments

Bangalore Critical Mass starts, sometimes with a thumbs up salute, from Cubbon Park at 4:30 p.m. every last Saturday. What a joy to ride my bike through the insanely congested Bangalore streets, surrounded by a group of rambunctious bicyclists! The first anniversary of the Bangalore Critical Mass attracted about 50 riders and felt shockingly familiar, […]

A Lost Decade for San Francisco’s Critical Mass?

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 21, 2009 | 54 Comments

Critical Mass rolls down Lombard Street, July 2007. Photo by Chris Carlsson Well, no. We’ve had a great run in the 2000s. Averaging between 750 and 3000 riders on any given month, the birthplace of Critical Mass keeps going strong, in spite of the total lack of promotion or organizing during this past decade. But […]

Hopenhagen or Carbonhagen, We’ll Still be Cycling Regardless

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 17, 2009 | 9 Comments

Cycling chic in Copenhagen, and this is a cold day in December! I caught Mikael Colville-Andersen’s inspiring talk on urban cycling from the Copenhagen context at San Francisco’s SPUR on the last Friday of October. I suggested we could do an interview when I came to Copenhagen in December and he graciously agreed, stepping outside […]

Streetfilms: Making a Better Market Street in San Francisco

By John Hamilton | Dec 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

For decades, planners and transportation specialists have debated how San Francisco’s most important street could be re-visioned to make it work better for transit, pedestrians, cyclists, shoppers, and those living on or near it. Now, as the Better Market Street Project moves forward with trial traffic diversions, the Art in Storefronts project, music and programming […]

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