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Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Crews Begin Striping 17th Street Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 11, 2011 | 62 Comments

Bicyclists have begun taking advantage of the new bike lanes being installed this week along the western section of the 17th Street corridor, with many riders saying they began feeling a greater sense of safety just as soon as the first stripes were laid down by Wednesday from Valencia to Church Streets. In interviews with Streetsblog, […]

JFK Drive Bikeway Promises Pleasant Travel in Golden Gate Park

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2011 | 45 Comments

As early as this spring, residents and tourists could be enjoying a world-class bi-directional, physically-separated bikeway along a 1.5 -mile stretch of Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Drive as part of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s (SFBC) Connecting the City campaign for a network of routes safe and comfortable enough for an eight […]

Connecting the City Sets a Clear Vision for Bicycling in San Francisco

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s (SFBC) bold campaign for a network of connected crosstown bikeways safe enough for an eight or eighty-year-old officially launched this week with Connecting the City.org, a new website featuring detailed visualizations for key bicycle-friendly routes throughout the city. The goal of Connecting the City is to “provide inviting and safe door-to-door […]

Car-Free District 3 Supervisor David Chiu Reelected Board President

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

Supervisor David Chiu, a key player in the city’s sustainable transportation movement who gets around on his electric bicycle, was reelected president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this afternoon on an 8-3 vote. The 40-year-old District 3 supervisor called on his colleagues to “move beyond the past oppositional politics of personality” and build […]

SFMTA, Newsom Support Study of Protected Oak and Fell Bike lanes

By Matthew Roth | Dec 9, 2010 | 22 Comments

During routine business at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board meeting Tuesday, Director Cheryl Brinkman recounted how enjoyable it was to ride her bicycle on the new physically separated bike lane on Division Street between 9th and 11th Streets. Brinkman said she hoped the SFMTA would consider how it could improve the connection for […]

Commentary: SF Needs an Interim Mayor Who’s a Leader, Not a Caretaker

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 7, 2010 | 14 Comments

There are a number of highly qualified people on the list of candidates to be the next mayor of San Francisco, and the Board of Supervisors could embark on a nomination process beginning today. What has become abundantly clear to me is that the person replacing Mayor Gavin Newsom should not be a caretaker, but […]

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