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Nightmare on Oak Street: Couple Harassed While Biking, Blamed By SFPD

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 13, 2012 | 66 Comments

On their ride home from a Valentine’s Day dinner, Ian Long and Johanna Weaver were harassed by an angry driver and allegedly threatened by a police officer who didn’t want to hear their story. Long and Weaver were riding in the right-hand lane of Oak Street along the popular Wiggle bike route around 8 p.m. […]

What SF Needs to Catch Up to NYC’s Bicycling Success: Political Leadership

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2012 | 11 Comments

New York City has raised the bar in recent years for rolling out bicycle improvements and reclaiming public space from automobiles. While San Franciscans have come to expect major delays for bike projects as the norm in their city, New York, the only American city more dense than SF, has zoomed ahead by adding roughly 20 miles […]

Want a Protected Bike Lane on Polk Street? Let the SFBC Know

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 29, 2012 | 9 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is asking members what kind of improvements they’d like to see to enhance safety and the public realm on Polk Street. The SFBC writes in its newsletter this week that it “is building off the SFMTA’s ThinkBike event in 2011, and developing concepts for an improved Polk Street.” The organization’s new survey […]

First Signs of Construction Appear on the JFK Drive Bikeway

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2012 | 6 Comments

After repeated delays and some intermittent rain, the SFMTA has apparently begun construction of the city’s first parking-protected bikeway on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park. The center lane striping appeared mostly grinded off on the western section of the road yesterday from Transverse Drive just past Stow Lake Drive. Construction equipment also […]

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JFK Drive Bikeway Street Plans Released. Construction Coming Next Week?

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 3, 2012 | 12 Comments

Update: These orange bollards spotted in the parking lanes on JFK near Transverse Drive are a promising sign. Construction on the JFK Drive bikeway in Golden Gate Park should begin next week, the SFMTA tells Streetsblog. The agency recently posted street plans [PDF] on the project website, showing how the geometry of the city’s first […]

Commentary: The Eds Respond to Frustration With Fell/Oak Bikeway Delay

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 1, 2012 | 56 Comments

Note: The discussion on the Fell and Oak bikeways begins at about 11:05. Mayor Ed Lee and SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin (a.k.a. “the Eds”) faced questions about the city’s extensive delivery time on the Fell and Oak bikeway project at Google’s recent “Fireside Chat” forum. A questioner asked why the project is coming in 2013 […]

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