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What’s With the Critical Mass Comic in Mayor Newsom’s Press Office?

By Matthew Roth | Jan 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

Click to enlarge. Photo: Matthew Roth On a recent visit to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office, I was a bit befuddled by the enormous comic behind the reception desk. The four-by-five foot framed illustration completely dominates the room, but that wasn’t the half of it. Click on the picture to enlarge it and read the […]

San Francisco Converts Some Bus Zones on Terminated Lines to Parking

By Matthew Roth | Jan 12, 2010 | 16 Comments

Photos: Matthew Roth The San Francisco MTA has an interesting decision to make with bus zones throughout the city now that a number of bus routes were changed or terminated with the service reductions that went into effect on December 5th, 2009. Will the city open the curb space up to cars, potentially adding meters […]

Facebook Refuses to Remove Group Promoting Anti-Cyclist Violence

By Matthew Roth | Jan 8, 2010 | 105 Comments

Screenshot from the Facebook group promoting dooring, among other acts that injure cyclists. A number of Streetsblog readers have noticed a particularly loathsome group that has sprouted up on Facebook and has a legion of fans. As of this writing, more than 32,000 people are fans of "There’s a perfectly good bike path right next […]

Eyes on the Street: San Francisco’s First Green Bike Box Remains Unfinished

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 22, 2009 | 21 Comments

A truck driver encroaches on a bicyclist in the green bike box. Photos by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco’s first green bike box, painted by a smiling group of electeds and bike activists earlier this month, was heralded as an important first step toward finally advancing some "innovative design treatments" in the city’s long-stalled Bicycle Plan. […]

Streetfilms: Making a Better Market Street in San Francisco

By John Hamilton | Dec 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

For decades, planners and transportation specialists have debated how San Francisco’s most important street could be re-visioned to make it work better for transit, pedestrians, cyclists, shoppers, and those living on or near it. Now, as the Better Market Street Project moves forward with trial traffic diversions, the Art in Storefronts project, music and programming […]

Come Celebrate the Year of the Bike at SFBC’s Winterfest

By Matthew Roth | Dec 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

With the gradual thawing underway in the three-year freeze of bicycle infrastructure in San Francisco, this year’s SFBC Winterfest celebration, one of the best bicycle parties in any year, is sure to warm this Sunday night up right. "It’s a place where cyclists of all shapes, sizes and creeds come together to celebrate cycling and […]

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