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Streetsblog SF to Receive the SFBC’s ‘Golden Wheel Award’

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 15, 2010 | 6 Comments

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has announced that Streetsblog San Francisco and SFBC volunteer Michael Helquist are the recipients of this year’s Golden Wheel Awards, which they will bestow during their annual gala in April. Last year’s winners were the organizers of San Francisco’s popular Sunday Streets events. In the announcement, the SFBC said Streetsblog […]

First Sunday Streets of 2010 A Big Hit

By Matthew Roth | Mar 15, 2010 | 8 Comments

Photo: sirgious On an incredible spring day with temperatures in the 60s, thousands of people descended on the Embarcadero in San Francisco for the first Sunday Streets of 2010, riding, skating, dancing, hula hooping, and swinging in the coolest bicycle-powered amusement park ride I’ve ever seen. With over three miles of the northbound lanes of […]

Head to the Embarcadero this Weekend for the Year’s First Sunday Streets!

By Michael Rhodes | Mar 12, 2010 | 5 Comments

Susan King of Livable City flanked by beautiful bikes. Photos: Michael Rhodes As if the lure of playing in the street wasn’t enough, city leaders and organizers gathered at City Hall yesterday afternoon to promote the first of nine Sunday Streets events this year, which will run along the Embarcadero up to Fisherman’s Wharf [route […]

The Hopes and Challenges for Remaking San Francisco’s Market Street

By Matthew Roth | Mar 11, 2010 | 21 Comments

Trial traffic diversions on Market Street. Photo: sfbike With six months of hindsight since San Francisco began trial traffic diversions and art in shuttered storefronts on Market Street, city leaders are taking stock of what has been successful and what has been less so. Within weeks, they expect to complete a scoping document and put […]

Advocates Concerned That Cyclists Are Included in Distracted Driving Bill

By Matthew Roth | Mar 3, 2010 | 73 Comments

Photo: markofphotography A bill introduced last month by State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who has been a steady advocate for reducing the dangers of distracted driving, would increase first-time and repeat fines for drivers who text while driving or who don’t use hands-free devices, and would extend the prohibition of cell phone use to […]

Saving Life and Limb By Avoiding the Door Zone

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2010 | 18 Comments

DIY Door Zone stencil from Portland, OR. Photo: BikePortland.org Many urban cyclists have a tale to tell about a car door that swung out into their path and nearly knocked them from their bikes. Hopefully, the story ends there, with no injuries or further harm. Some haven’t been so lucky, however, as they’ve been thrown […]

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