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Crews Installing Bike Lanes, Two-Way Bikeway on C. Chavez and Cargo Way

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 21, 2012 | 15 Comments

Two bike corridors connecting the city’s southeastern neighborhoods should be safer after crews finish constructing buffered bike lanes on eastern Cesar Chavez Street and a two-way protected bikeway on Cargo Way. Bike commuters are already enjoying more room on a section of eastern Cesar Chavez, where car parking has been cleared and preliminary striping put on […]

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. […]

Downtown Bike Access Ordinance Clears Key Hurdle at Board of Supes

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 6, 2012 | 7 Comments

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today gave preliminary approval to what advocates call the strongest bicycle access legislation in the country. The ordinance [PDF], which would require downtown building managers to provide secure indoor bicycle parking for employees either on-site or nearby, is expected to receive final approval from the board next week and […]

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 […]

Safety Improvements for Eastern Cesar Chavez Face Key Decision on Friday

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 27, 2012 | 5 Comments

Safety enhancements for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street are coming together after staff from the SFMTA and the SF Planning Department presented project plans at an open house last week. The near-term improvements include buffered bike lanes with soft-hit posts, while the long-term vision would add a two-way protected bikeway and wider sidewalks. One piece of the […]

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