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Leah Shahum to Step Down as SF Bicycle Coalition’s Executive Director

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 12, 2014 | 3 Comments

Leah Shahum announced today that she will step down as executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, after 12 years at the helm. “Leah leaves behind a legacy of one of the most bike-friendly big cities in America, and one of the most well-organized and effective membership groups in the country,” said Lawrence Li, the […]

Streetsblog’s Beginnings: Founder Aaron Naparstek to Speak in SF Tuesday

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 11, 2014 | 2 Comments

Streetsblog founding editor Aaron Naparstek will be in SF to serve as the keynote speaker at the SF Bicycle Coalition’s Golden Wheel Awards on Tuesday evening. We thought it’d be a good opportunity to look back on how Streetsblog San Francisco came to be, and get Naparstek’s take on what’s changed in the city since […]

SF Bicycle Coalition Welcomes Tyler Frisbee as New Policy Director

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2014 | No Comments

Tyler Frisbee is the SF Bicycle Coalition’s new policy director, filling the shoes of Deputy Director Kit Hodge. Hodge left SFBC last month to start a company that will lease family-friendly cargo bikes. “We’re honored to have her national expertise to our local issues,” the SFBC wrote in a blog post: For the last five […]

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Why SF Should Strive to Replicate the Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | May 16, 2014 | 35 Comments

On the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, between Market Street and City Hall, the new contra-flow protected bike lane creates a unique street layout for San Francisco. For the first time on a downtown street, people on bikes are accommodated in a way that people in cars are not. Bike traffic goes both ways, while […]

Polk Street Contra-Flow Bike Lane Opens to the Public

By Stan Parkford | May 2, 2014 | 65 Comments

City planners, politicians, and bicycle advocates gathered this morning for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony of the contra-flow bike lane on Polk Street, a two-block protected cycle track from Market to Grove Streets. Just in time for next week’s Bike to Work Day, the opening ceremony came after a decade of delays and a great deal of pressure […]

SFMTA’s Draft List for the Next Generation of Bikeways

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 12, 2014 | 38 Comments

The SFMTA has released a draft list of the 68 street segments it’s looking to include in the next wave of improvements to the city’s bicycle network [PDF]. The SF Bicycle Coalition mapped out the list and is asking its members to weigh in on a survey about which streets should take top priority. The SFMTA’s […]

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