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Love Your Lane: Kirkham Street to the Sea

By Matthew Roth | | 6 Comments
Riding down Kirkham at 33rd Ave with a view of the ocean Kirkham Street is one of the Big 56 bike lane projects that hasn’t raised many eyebrows. Unlike the looming battle over 2nd Street or 5th Street, the Kirkham lane will be on a relatively quiet residential street that runs east-west from Ocean Beach […]

SF School District Encourages Students to Bike

By Benjamin Caldwell | | No Comments
Students brush up their bicycling skills at Francisco Middle School. Sustainable school transportation officials and advocates have celebrated the installation of the first new bike racks in the San Francisco Unified School District in many years.   Francisco Middle School, one of eight schools to receive a new rack, played host to the event.  Francisco students […]

Big Kick-Off for SFBC’s “Big 56” Campaign

By Bryan Goebel | | 3 Comments
An estimated 170 SFBC members attend the launch of the SFBC’s "Big 56" campaign. Photo: Neal Patel. About 170 people showed up last night at the First Baptist Church for the launch of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s grassroots campaign to rally support for the city’s long-stalled bike plan and get it re-adopted by Bike […]

Advocates Ask Supes to Support a Two-Way Hayes

By Matthew Roth | | 2 Comments
Advocates are calling for all livable streets supporters who have the time to turn out to the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Economic Development Committee meeting today at 1pm to voice their support for a two-way Hayes Street, as was called for in the Market and Octavia Plan.  In 2007, the Hayes Valley Neighborhood […]

Unclogging the Cesar Chavez Traffic Sewer

By Matthew Roth | | 42 Comments
A 14′ median with trees will be added to Cesar Chavez when the bicycle injunction is lifted One of the many casualties of the bicycle injunction has been the community led plan for reconstruction of Cesar Chavez Street between Guerrero and the 101.  Over the past five years, community groups led by CC Puede, the […]

Caltrain to Present Plan to Increase Bicycle Capacity

By Bryan Goebel | | 4 Comments
Caltrain claims it "values bicycle commuters." In its goals and objectives the agency says "Caltrain must be a competitive alternative to traveling by automobile." That goal will be tested tomorrow when the agency presents its final plan to increase bicycle capacity on Caltrain to the Board of Directors. Advocates are frustrated it isn’t being made […]
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