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SFBC Releases Mayoral Candidates Q&A: Who Will Be the Favorites?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 23, 2011 | 18 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has posted the responses from its questionnaires submitted to the mayoral candidates, as the organization’s 12,000 members begin voting on who to endorse in the November 8th election. Almost all of the sixteen candidates responded, with the exception of Michela Alioto-Pier and Jeff Adachi. From the SFBC’s Bike Vote 2011 […]

SFPD Numbers Confirm Cops Targeting Bicyclists on Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 55 Comments

Despite the department’s insistence that officers are not targeting bicyclists on Market Street, new numbers from the San Francisco Police Department confirm that cops are going after people on bikes following two high-profile crashes. Last Friday, as part of SFPD’s traffic safety campaign [pdf], officers beefed up enforcement at 5th and Market and issued a […]

SPUR: How Will 1.7 Million More People Cross the Bay?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 17, 2011 | 35 Comments

Crossing the Bay from SPUR on Vimeo. SPUR has produced a new video that asks: How will 1.7 million more people cross the Bay? From the SPUR blog: In the last century, visionary planners made major investments linking San Francisco and the East Bay. When the 20th century dawned, the only way to get from […]

A Year After Bike Injunction Lifting, SF Blazes Ahead With Improvements

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 11, 2011 | 47 Comments

It was one year ago last Thursday that a San Francisco judge freed the city from its four-year-old bicycle injunction, and allowed the SFMTA to finally begin building out the long stalled Bike Plan. Since the chains were unlocked, the number of bicyclists on the streets has dramatically risen, thanks in no small part to […]

BART Staff Opposes Rush Hour Bike Access on Rear Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 28, 2011 | 50 Comments

BART staff has shot down a proposal from Director Robert Raburn to allow commuters to bring bicycles aboard the back cars of rush hour trains. In a memo [pdf] to the BART Board, Executive Planning and Budget Manager Carter Mau recommended maintaining the current policy, which prohibits bicycles aboard its most crowded trains during peak […]

Neighborhood Outreach Continues for Fell and Oak Bikeways

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 27, 2011 | 31 Comments

Fourteen years of community-driven efforts to improve conditions on Fell and Oak Streets around the Panhandle are finally paying off. The outreach continues on a vision for separated bikeways that would provide San Franciscans safe access to the flattest route connecting the western neighborhoods to areas east while making the neighborhood more livable for residents and businesses. […]

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