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Mayor Newsom to Nominate a Respected Transit Advocate to SFMTA Board

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 14, 2010 | 27 Comments

Cheryl Brinkman at a press conference earlier this year celebrating San Francisco’s first new bike lane in three years. In the background is SFMTA Chief Nat Ford. Photo: sfbike Cheryl Brinkman, one of the original organizers of Sunday Streets who has a strong history of livable streets advocacy, will be nominated today by Mayor Gavin […]

SFMTA Implements Changes at Fell Street ARCO, But Is It Better?

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 2, 2010 | 50 Comments

A cyclist is forced to squeeze between two cars waiting to get into the ARCO station. An all-too-frequent occurrence that is still happening despite the SFMTA’s new configuration. Photos by Bryan Goebel. At the corner of Fell Street at Divisadero it’s frightening to witness the minute-by-minute close calls between drivers and cyclists on a one-way […]

Thousands Play in the Streets as Oaklavia Transforms Downtown Oakland

By Laura McCamy | Jun 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

Photo: geekstinkbreath Oaklavia transformed a swath of downtown Oakland to a vibrant streetscape Sunday, in its first ever ciclovia-style event, with café seating in the streets, yoga classes, dancers, musicians, food carts and games. More than two thirds of the estimated 3,000 – 4,000 people who turned out to experience the joy of car-free streets […]

New Sharrows on Sutter and Post Streets Not Popular with Cyclists

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 25, 2010 | 57 Comments

A bicyclist makes her way up Sutter Street just after the evening commute. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Pedaling up Sutter Street toward Leavenworth from his dentist’s office during the height of the Wednesday evening commute, Dan Nunes is riding in the transit-only lane for his bike trip home, despite the new sharrows recently painted in […]

Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area

By Leah Shahum | Jun 23, 2010 | 22 Comments

Bicyclists — and blue bike lanes and physically separated bikeways — abound in Copenhagen, where biking makes up 37 percent of the trips to work and school. Photos by Leah Shahum Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San […]

The Legal Delays Continue in San Francisco’s Bike Injunction Saga

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 22, 2010 | 74 Comments

Rob Anderson, the man who stopped San Francisco’s Bike Plan, and his attorney, Mary Miles, leave the courthouse after today’s hearing. Photo: Bryan Goebel Without playing his hand, a San Francisco Superior Court judge today gave the attorneys involved in Rob Anderson’s lawsuit against San Francisco’s Bike Plan three weeks to draft orders for how […]

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