Recent Streetsblog SF posts about SFBC

85 Percent of People on Polk Street Arrive Without a Car

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 29, 2013 | 95 Comments

Updated 4:36 p.m. If San Franciscans were to believe the hyperbole and fearmongering spread by merchants leading the “Save Polk Street Coalition,” removing even a small proportion of car parking along the corridor to make the street safer and more inviting will kill businesses. But new survey data from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency shows that […]

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As Bike-Share Pilot Lurches Along, Supe Wiener Calls for Full-Scale Launch

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2013 | 17 Comments

While San Franciscans eagerly await the repeatedly-delayed launch of the Bay Area’s small-scale bike-share pilot program, which has now been downsized to a minuscule 700 bikes (350 of them in SF), Supervisor Scott Wiener says San Francisco needs to take the initiative to move ahead and launch a “full-scale system” throughout the city by next year. Wiener plans […]

Broadening Its Outreach, SFBC Helps Organize “Bike Build Convivios”

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 21, 2013 | 8 Comments

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Mission, an energetic crowd filled a room with about half a dozen bikes propped up on stands. Among the crowd was Juana Teresa Tello, who was there to get some pro bono guidance on how to fix up a two-wheeler that will help her get to work, to […]

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BART to Launch Second Trial Week Without Rush-Hour Bike Ban

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 14, 2013 | 14 Comments

BART will implement another trial to allow bikes aboard trains during rush hours, the agency announced today. Unlike the first trial, which tested the policy change during four Fridays in August, the new trial will run during the entire work week from Monday, March 18, through Friday, March 22. The survey results from the August trial […]

Failing to Back Up His Words, Mayor Lee Won’t Fund SF’s Bike Strategy

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2013 | 40 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee has made it clear that he has no plans to take leadership on funding San Francisco’s vision for making bicycling a mainstream mode of transportation. During a question-and-answer session at yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Eric Mar asked the mayor how he will help fund the SFMTA’s Draft Bicycle Strategy, a […]

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How American Cities Are Making the Transition to Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 8, 2013 | 15 Comments

Of all her trips pedaling around during her San Francisco visit, one of Martha Roskowski’s most harrowing was the stretch between the SFMTA building at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue to a venue at Folsom and Second Streets, where she was slated to speak about making cities more bike-friendly. “It was my little moment […]

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