Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Failing to Back Up His Words, Mayor Lee Won’t Fund SF’s Bike Strategy

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2013 | 40 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee has made it clear that he has no plans to take leadership on funding San Francisco’s vision for making bicycling a mainstream mode of transportation. During a question-and-answer session at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Eric Mar asked the mayor how he will help fund the SFMTA’s Draft Bicycle Strategy, a […]

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How American Cities Are Making the Transition to Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 8, 2013 | 15 Comments

Of all her trips pedaling around during her San Francisco visit, one of Martha Roskowski’s most harrowing was the stretch between the SFMTA building at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue to a venue at Folsom and Second Streets, where she was slated to speak about making cities more bike-friendly. “It was my little moment […]

SF’s Pedestrian Strategy: A Smart But Unfunded Vision for Safer Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2013 | 7 Comments

Two years after the Pedestrian Safety Task Force formed to devise a plan to meet the ambitious targets for reducing injuries set by former Mayor Gavin Newsom, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency has released its Draft Pedestrian Strategy [PDF]. The document serves as a rough guide for how the city can re-engineer streets and target […]

Advocates Call on Gov. Brown to Prioritize Biking, Walking in State Budget

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 31, 2013 | 3 Comments

This article is cross-posted from the blog of former Streetsblog SF editor Bryan Goebel, who’s aiming to launch a new website “devoted to sustained coverage of biking, walking and transit issues in Sacramento, both at the Capitol and locally.” You can also follow Bryan on Twitter. A proposal in Governor Jerry Brown’s budget that would change how the administration doles […]

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SFMTA’s Bicycle Strategy Could Make SF Top in the Nation — If It’s Funded

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 30, 2013 | 5 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency has mapped out a course that could make San Francisco the most bike-friendly city in the nation. All it needs now, it seems, is the political leadership to step up and fund what SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin has called the “most cost-effective investment we can make in moving people.” The SFMTA’s Draft […]

California Bike Coalition Sets An Ambitious Reform Agenda for 2013

By Damien Newton | Jan 30, 2013 | No Comments

The top priority for California bicycle advocates this year? To ensure state funding for biking and walking gets better, not worse. That’s according to California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) President Dave Snyder, who recently spoke with Streetsblog to lay out the organization’s goals and strategies in its 2013 legislative agenda, both in the capitol and across […]

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