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Think Bike Workshops Offer a “Dutch Touch” on Three Key Corridors

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 22, 2011 | 3 Comments

The delegation of Dutch experts who were in San Francisco this week for a series of Think Bike workshops with city officials, bike advocates, transportation planners and others honed in on three critical corridors: Market Street between 5th and 9th, Polk Street between Broadway and Union streets, and The Wiggle. What resulted from the day-long […]

Lessons from Amsterdam: How SF Can Bicycle Toward Greatness

By Leah Shahum | Sep 19, 2011 | 27 Comments

It’s not often that you get to take your idea of utopia out for a test ride. But that’s what I was lucky enough to do for seven months last year while on sabbatical in Amsterdam. After more than a decade of helping to build the vision of San Francisco becoming a world-class bicycling city, […]

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 […]

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. […]

On Bike to Work Day, Electeds Unite in Support of Future Bikeways

By Aaron Bialick | May 12, 2011 | 5 Comments

In the strongest showing of political support ever for bicycling in San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee, ten of the eleven members of the Board of Supervisors, and a range of city officials pedaled to City Hall with advocates and thousands of commuters on the 17th Annual Bike to Work Day. Commuters pedaling along the city’s […]

Golden Gate Park JFK Bikeway Project Delayed Until December 2011

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 26, 2011 | 22 Comments

The expected construction of a physically-separated bikeway along a stretch of John F. Kennedy (JFK) Drive in Golden Gate Park will now come no sooner than December, according to a report from the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA). “All parties involved in the project recognize that they underestimated the complexity of the planning and design […]

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