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SFMTA Implements Changes at Fell Street ARCO, But Is It Better?

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 2, 2010 | 50 Comments

A cyclist is forced to squeeze between two cars waiting to get into the ARCO station. An all-too-frequent occurrence that is still happening despite the SFMTA’s new configuration. Photos by Bryan Goebel. At the corner of Fell Street at Divisadero it’s frightening to witness the minute-by-minute close calls between drivers and cyclists on a one-way […]

New Sharrows on Sutter and Post Streets Not Popular with Cyclists

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 25, 2010 | 57 Comments

A bicyclist makes her way up Sutter Street just after the evening commute. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Pedaling up Sutter Street toward Leavenworth from his dentist’s office during the height of the Wednesday evening commute, Dan Nunes is riding in the transit-only lane for his bike trip home, despite the new sharrows recently painted in […]

The Legal Delays Continue in San Francisco’s Bike Injunction Saga

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 22, 2010 | 74 Comments

Rob Anderson, the man who stopped San Francisco’s Bike Plan, and his attorney, Mary Miles, leave the courthouse after today’s hearing. Photo: Bryan Goebel Without playing his hand, a San Francisco Superior Court judge today gave the attorneys involved in Rob Anderson’s lawsuit against San Francisco’s Bike Plan three weeks to draft orders for how […]

Judge Poses Questions to Attorneys on Eve of Final Bike Injunction Hearing

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 21, 2010 | 7 Comments

All eyes will be on the courthouse tomorrow for some hint of when the bike injunction will be lifted. Photo: Mansley On the eve of what bicyclists, advocates and SFMTA officials hope will be the final hearing to consider fully lifting the city’s bike injunction, a San Francisco judge issued a list of questions for […]

Statistics Alone Paint an Incomplete Picture of Women and Bicycles

By Regina Hope Sinsky | Jun 1, 2010 | 9 Comments

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." — Susan […]

Technology and Impotence

By Chris Carlsson | May 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

The BP oil spill goes on. And on. We watch the oil on live web cam pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. And we watch. Political rage is muted, practical responses even more distant. What to do? How do we “take action” on something like this? How can individuals meaningfully respond to this catastrophe? Stop driving? Boycott one brand of gas? Stop buying things made of plastic?

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