Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition

Bike Donation Program to Benefit East Palo Alto Elementary Students

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

Brent Butler was leading a bicycle rodeo in East Palo Alto for the city’s first Streets Alive event last year when he realized just how many children were there without bikes. “What I decided to do is continue to teach the rules of the road even if we don’t have bicycles,” said Butler, the city’s […]

San Jose Sets Out to Build the Bay Area’s Most Bike-Friendly Downtown

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 21, 2012 | 16 Comments

San Jose — which wants its central district to become the urban center of Silicon Valley — hopes to build the Bay Area’s most bike-friendly downtown, where pedaling to work, school or the farmers market is “safe, convenient and commonplace” for people of all ages. The vision includes Long Beach-inspired bicycle-friendly business districts, where merchants would […]

Will San Mateo County Finally Fix a Dangerous Overpass for Cyclists?

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 11, 2012 | 7 Comments

For the second time in a year, San Mateo County transportation officials are seeking funding for a proposal to improve conditions for bike riders at a dangerous highway interchange where a big-rig driver with a history of fatal collisions killed a 47-year-old Los Altos woman riding her bicycle less than two years ago. The Interstate 280 and […]

In Silicon Valley, an Emerging Bike Movement

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 20, 2012 | 7 Comments

Editor’s note: This story marks the return of former Streetsblog San Francisco editor Bryan Goebel, who will be contributing occasional pieces. Bicycle advocacy can be an especially daunting challenge in the South Bay and the Peninsula, where car-centric policies and culture rule the day. At this week’s Silicon Valley Bike Advocacy Summit the focus was […]

Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area

By Leah Shahum | Jun 23, 2010 | 22 Comments

Bicyclists — and blue bike lanes and physically separated bikeways — abound in Copenhagen, where biking makes up 37 percent of the trips to work and school. Photos by Leah Shahum Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San […]

Statistics Alone Paint an Incomplete Picture of Women and Bicycles

By Regina Hope Sinsky | Jun 1, 2010 | 9 Comments

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." — Susan […]

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