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PARK(ing) Day 2011 in San Francisco: “Time to Reclaim the Streets”

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 16, 2011 | 4 Comments

People all over San Francisco reclaimed metered parking spaces normally reserved for private automobiles today, and transformed them into living spaces for people to mark PARK(ing) Day, one of the most celebrated livable streets events that began here six years ago, and sparked a worldwide movement. “It’s exciting to see how in just a very […]

Bike Coalition Endorses John Avalos for Mayor Followed by Chiu, Lee

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

John Avalos Rides SF from John Avalos on Vimeo. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition announced today that it is endorsing John Avalos as its number one pick for mayor, followed by David Chiu and Ed Lee. Avalos, the District 11 supervisor, has been especially aggressive about courting the bicycle vote, showing up at bike events, and […]

City Planner Hurt by Driver Making Illegal Right Turn at Market and Octavia

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 25, 2011 | 73 Comments

John Billovits is all too familiar with the perils of one of the city’s most hazardous intersections for bicyclists. For the past decade, he has traveled through the Market and Octavia intersection on his daily bicycle commute. As a senior planner at the San Francisco Planning Department, Billovits was also the project manager for the […]

SFBC Releases Mayoral Candidates Q&A: Who Will Be the Favorites?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 23, 2011 | 18 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has posted the responses from its questionnaires submitted to the mayoral candidates, as the organization’s 12,000 members begin voting on who to endorse in the November 8th election. Almost all of the sixteen candidates responded, with the exception of Michela Alioto-Pier and Jeff Adachi. From the SFBC’s Bike Vote 2011 […]

SFPD Numbers Confirm Cops Targeting Bicyclists on Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 55 Comments

Despite the department’s insistence that officers are not targeting bicyclists on Market Street, new numbers from the San Francisco Police Department confirm that cops are going after people on bikes following two high-profile crashes. Last Friday, as part of SFPD’s traffic safety campaign [pdf], officers beefed up enforcement at 5th and Market and issued a […]

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 […]

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