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Bike to Work Day Comes With Unprecedented Growth of Bike Infrastructure

By Aaron Bialick | May 12, 2011 | 11 Comments

Cycling San Franciscans have plenty to be happy about on the streets this Bike to Work Day, with new and greened bike lanes, new bike parking, sharrows, bike boxes, and traffic signals to make riding a little easier. “This is by far the most work we’ve done in a span of time like this,” said […]

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 […]

Get Ready for Bike to Work Day 2011

By Bryan Goebel | May 11, 2011 | 8 Comments

One of my favorite things about Bike to Work Day as an everyday bicyclist is picking my free tote bag at one of the convenient energizer stations. In San Francisco, 6,000 bags are ready to be handed out tomorrow by SFBC volunteers, 50 of whom spent a recent day stuffing them with all those resourceful […]

Work Begins on Upper Market Street Bike Lane Improvements

By Aaron Bialick | May 3, 2011 | 9 Comments

Preparations for improvements [pdf] to the Upper Market Street bike lanes are underway and when completed will mark a step towards safer passage for travelers by bike at three intersections along the city’s busiest bike corridor, where a vision for a protected bikeway was dropped nearly forty years ago. The extended bike lanes should provide […]

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 […]

‘People Plan’ Could Speed Bike, Ped, Transit Improvements on Embarcadero

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 1, 2011 | 13 Comments

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has unveiled the People Plan [pdf], a document laying out strategies to meet the quickly approaching challenges of bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city’s waterfront for the 2013 America’s Cup yacht race. Transit advocates see it as an opportunity to boost sustainable transportation and build out some […]

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