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An Emerging New Bike Plan for San Francisco is a Bold Path Forward

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 19, 2010 | 170 Comments

After four years of an agonizing bicycle injunction that prevented the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from adding any significant improvements to the city’s bike network, a judge earlier this year finally freed the SFMTA to begin building out the city’s long-promised Bicycle Plan. In short order, the SFMTA made some very noticeable improvements, […]

SFMTA Begins Installing More Bike Counters Around the City

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 15, 2010 | 19 Comments

The SFMTA has begun installing 22 automatic bicycle counters at 15 locations throughout the city to help get a more accurate tally of the rising numbers of bicyclists in San Francisco. The Zelt inductive loop counters are placed 1 to 3 inches below the pavement and each time someone pedals over one, the system detects […]

SFBC: Tell the Mayor to Finish the Bikeway on Lower Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 8, 2010 | 18 Comments

Without prodding from the Mayor’s Office, our sources tell us, it’s very possible the SFMTA wouldn’t have acted as quick to give bicyclists green, protected bike lanes on Market Street. It is the Mayor, after all, who has the ultimate authority over the SFMTA, appointing its board members, overseeing the agency’s budget behind the scenes […]

SFMTA Responds to Demands for Speeding Market Street Bike Improvements

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

In response to concerns that the SFMTA is taking too long to put in more green protected bike lanes and other innovations on Market Street, the agency’s Sustainable Streets Director, Bond Yee, in a letter to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, has outlined and provided a timeline for his agency’s planned improvements. Yee confirmed that […]

Gateway or Boulevard? SFMTA Narrows Options for Fixing Masonic Avenue

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2010 | 96 Comments

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) options for fixing Masonic Avenue, a major north-south traffic sewer that was the scene of the city’s first and only bicycle fatality this year, have been narrowed to two designs. While each option would calm auto traffic in slightly different ways and offer different amenities for bicyclists, both […]

Bike Advocates to SFMTA: Time to Fill the Gaps on Lower Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 30, 2010 | 19 Comments

Nearly five months after the SFMTA installed the green protected bike lanes on Market Street, which most agree has been a successful trial, bike advocates are urging the agency to finish the job and plug in the gaps from 8th Street to Octavia Boulevard. “I heard from [SFMTA CEO] Nat Ford Market Street is a […]

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