Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Community, Advocacy and Labor

Eyes on the Street: First Fell Street Bike Lane Markings on the Ground

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 15, 2012 | 12 Comments

Crews laid down the first preliminary stripes of the three-block separated bike lane on Fell Street this morning. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency is moving ahead with the safer connection between the Wiggle and the Panhandle, confident that a legal appeal filed against the project will be denied. As of this afternoon, a few short stretches […]

Standing Up to Legal Appeal, SFMTA Moves Ahead With Fell Street Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 14, 2012 | 44 Comments

Opponents of the Fell and Oak Street bikeway and pedestrian improvements filed an appeal last week seeking to delay implementation of street safety measures on the critical three-block stretch linking the Panhandle to the Wiggle, but the legal gambit will not slow down construction of the bike lane on Fell currently underway, the SF Municipal Transportation Agency […]

Livable City: With Smarter Land Use, SFCTA Could Avert “Total Gridlock”

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 13, 2012 | 12 Comments

San Francisco’s South of Market district will be crippled by gridlock within a generation unless the city makes major improvements to its transit, bicycle, and pedestrian infrastructure and implements policies that entice commuters to travel by means other than driving. That’s according to planners from the SF County Transportation Authority who aim to avert such […]

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To Become a Great Biking City, SF Needs to Stop Crawling and Start Running

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 9, 2012 | 12 Comments

Our Streetfilm from 2010 documented the experience of North American transportation officials and advocates in Copenhagen during the latest Velo-City conference. San Francisco doesn’t have to “reinvent the wheel” to become a bike-friendly place — the city need look no further than peers like Copenhagen, widely considered one of the world’s best cycling cities. So […]

Remembering Ellen Fletcher, Palo Alto’s Pioneer Bicycle Advocate

By Richard Masoner | Nov 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

Cross-posted from Cyclelicious. Holocaust survivor, PTA mom, city council member, and bike advocate Ellen Fletcher succumbed yesterday at age 83 to lung cancer at her Palo Alto home. Ellen escaped Berlin as a Jewish child on the Kindertransport trains and spent her teen years as a refugee in World War II London, where she biked to her […]

SFMTA Begins Work on Fell Street Protected Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 2, 2012 | 34 Comments

Note: I returned last night from an East Coast vacation and Streetsblog meet-up, and was fortunate enough to avoid the worst of Hurricane Sandy. Best wishes to all of those who are recovering from the storm and the devastation left in its wake. Check out the coverage from my office-exiled colleagues in NYC about how New […]

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