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Cyclist Assaulted By Driver and Passenger at Scott and Fell on the Wiggle

By Aaron Bialick | May 16, 2012 | 31 Comments

A bicycle commuter was assaulted by a driver and her passenger on Scott Street between Oak and Fell Streets on the Wiggle last week. Dana Kess, 24, of Pacifica and Carmen Struell, 25, of San Francisco were arrested on Tuesday, May 8, for crashing into and beating the 31-year-old San Francisco woman and vandalizing her […]

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SFMTA Drafting Design Standards to Streamline Innovative Bike Treatments

By Aaron Bialick | May 11, 2012 | 21 Comments

The SFMTA is developing a new engineering guide for bike infrastructure that should help bring street designs like protected bike lanes to more San Francisco streets. Known as the Innovative Bicycle Treatment Toolbox, the guide promises to accelerate the city’s adoption of high-quality bikeway design treatments. “The Innovative Bicycle Treatment Toolbox creates standardized guidance for […]

On Bike to Work Day, City Leaders Call on SF to Step Up Bikeway Expansion

By Aaron Bialick | May 10, 2012 | 11 Comments

City officials and advocates rode in to City Hall today alongside thousands of commuters for San Francisco’s 18th annual Bike to Work Day. According to the SFMTA, 1,031 eastbound bicycles traveled through the Market and Van Ness intersection between 8 and 9 a.m. this morning, making up 73 percent of vehicles on Market and averaging 17 […]

JFK Protected Bike Lanes Get Seal of Approval From the Bike-Savvy Dutch

By Aaron Bialick | May 1, 2012 | 24 Comments

This year’s celebration of the Dutch Queen’s Day in San Francisco was a bit special. When the event’s 100-or-so celebrants traversed the city by bike in the second annual “Market-to-Mill” ride (Market Street to the Dutch windmill in Golden Gate Park, a.k.a the Bay to Beach route), the orange-clad caravan traveled through San Francisco’s first bicycle […]

SFMTA Stripes Bike Lanes on Folsom Street Connecting SoMa and the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 30, 2012 | 20 Comments

The SFMTA striped new bike lanes on Folsom Street between 13th and 19th Streets last week, creating a safer and more direct connection for bike commuters between SoMa and the Mission. The bike lanes, which came along with a road diet and street re-paving, were called for in the Mission Streetscape Plan. They provide a continuous connection […]

It’s Not That Hard to Find People Who Like the JFK Bikeway

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 25, 2012 | 120 Comments

Much has been made about the “strangeness” of San Francisco’s first parking-protected bike lane in Golden Gate Park, which employs the type of design that other American cities are increasingly using to improve safety and raise bicycling rates. As someone who lives next to Golden Gate Park, I’ve been going out of my way to […]

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