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SFMTA’s Bicycle Strategy Could Make SF Top in the Nation — If It’s Funded

By Aaron Bialick | | 5 Comments
The SF Municipal Transportation Agency has mapped out a course that could make San Francisco the most bike-friendly city in the nation. All it needs now, it seems, is the political leadership to step up and fund what SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin has called the “most cost-effective investment we can make in moving people.” The SFMTA’s Draft […]

Great Highway Re-Paving to Come With Minor Bike-Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | | 17 Comments
The Great Highway, the motorway that divides Ocean Beach from the Outer Sunset and Richmond, is set to get some bike lane and pedestrian improvements north of Lincoln Way as part of a nine-month re-paving project started this week by the Department of Public Works. The 6-foot painted bike lanes planned between Lincoln and Cabrillo Street would […]

Camera Enforcement for Illegal Turns at Market/Octavia Gets Green Light

By Aaron Bialick | | 26 Comments
Dangerous, illegal right turns from Market Street onto the freeway at the intersection with Octavia Boulevard — the location with the most pedestrian and bicycle crashes in the city — may become less frequent after a long-awaited state decision that allows the city to use camera enforcement. The decision was announced by California Attorney General Kamala Harris last […]

Supes Reject Legal Appeal Against Fell/Oak Bikeways and Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | | 22 Comments
A legal appeal filed against protected bike lanes and pedestrian safety upgrades on three blocks of Fell and Oak Streets was rejected unanimously by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. Construction on the project, currently underway the SF Municipal Transportation Agency beginning with the Fell Street protected bike lane, will not be halted by the appeal. […]

SF Has to Pick Up the Pace on Downtown Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | | 19 Comments
Bicycling in San Francisco is getting better since the bicycle injunction was lifted in 2010, and concrete progress on projects like the critical Fell and Oak Street bikeway is very encouraging. But this week also made bicyclists in SF painfully aware that as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency gets closer to completing the projects in its […]
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