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SFBC: Tell the Mayor to Finish the Bikeway on Lower Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 8, 2010 | 18 Comments

Without prodding from the Mayor’s Office, our sources tell us, it’s very possible the SFMTA wouldn’t have acted as quick to give bicyclists green, protected bike lanes on Market Street. It is the Mayor, after all, who has the ultimate authority over the SFMTA, appointing its board members, overseeing the agency’s budget behind the scenes […]

SFMTA Responds to Demands for Speeding Market Street Bike Improvements

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

In response to concerns that the SFMTA is taking too long to put in more green protected bike lanes and other innovations on Market Street, the agency’s Sustainable Streets Director, Bond Yee, in a letter to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, has outlined and provided a timeline for his agency’s planned improvements. Yee confirmed that […]

Gateway or Boulevard? SFMTA Narrows Options for Fixing Masonic Avenue

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2010 | 96 Comments

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) options for fixing Masonic Avenue, a major north-south traffic sewer that was the scene of the city’s first and only bicycle fatality this year, have been narrowed to two designs. While each option would calm auto traffic in slightly different ways and offer different amenities for bicyclists, both […]

Bike Advocates to SFMTA: Time to Fill the Gaps on Lower Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 30, 2010 | 19 Comments

Nearly five months after the SFMTA installed the green protected bike lanes on Market Street, which most agree has been a successful trial, bike advocates are urging the agency to finish the job and plug in the gaps from 8th Street to Octavia Boulevard. “I heard from [SFMTA CEO] Nat Ford Market Street is a […]

Advocates: CityPlace EIR Highlights Need for Level of Service Reform

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 16, 2010 | 25 Comments

At the heart of the San Francisco Planning Department’s 328-page Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for CityPlace, sustainable transportation advocates have pinpointed one glaring flaw. In assessing the impacts of new off-street retail parking, the environmental analysis [pdf] concludes that building a 167-space garage will have the same effect on traffic as building no garage […]

Advocates Call on SFMTA to Take Immediate Steps to Fix Masonic Avenue

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 20, 2010 | 10 Comments

A ghost bike at Masonic and Turk in memory 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was killed by a drunk driver one week ago. Photo: Michael Helquist of BIKE NOPA. A week after a 21-year-old German tourist on a bicycle was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver on Masonic Avenue, the first death of a bicyclist in […]

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