Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Commuting

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Bikes on BART, Day 1: All Signs Point to a Smooth Morning Commute

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 3, 2012 | 23 Comments

With bikes let loose on this morning’s rush hour BART commute, all signs indicate that things went as smoothly — if not better — than usual. Our most recent search on the Twittersphere turns up not a single complaint, and reps from the East Bay and San Francisco Bicycle Coalitions, as well as BART, are reporting […]

Contra-Flow Bike Lane May Finally Come to Polk Street Next Summer

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 26, 2012 | 9 Comments

A long-awaited bicycle connection linking Market Street to northbound Polk Street is on the horizon. The two southernmost blocks of Polk, which currently only allow southbound traffic, could get a protected contra-flow bike lane by this time next year. The project, which would add a northbound bike lane separated by a concrete median [PDF], was […]

Bikes Are Not Cars: Why California Needs an “Idaho Stop” Law

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 20, 2012 | 72 Comments

If you follow just about any major media coverage of street etiquette and safety, by now you’ve probably seen a piece vilifying people on bikes for “running” stop signs. But hop on a bike yourself, and you’ll start to see why safely rolling and yielding at stop signs makes sense. The stop sign law in […]

How Long Did This Driver Park in a Bike Lane? A Case Study

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2012 | 56 Comments

Contrary to what the name implies, bike lanes in San Francisco have cars in them all the time. Presumably, a car left with blinking hazard lights on means the driver is just “running in for a minute,” as if to minimize the impact of endangering people on bicycles. Maybe, after biking into traffic around one […]

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8th St. Buffered Bike Lane a Step Up, But When Will SoMa Really Feel Safe?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 13, 2012 | 24 Comments

A new buffered bike lane was striped on 8th Street last week, re-purposing a traffic lane for bicycles on one of SoMa’s fast, one-way motorways. The new configuration, which removes bicyclists from the door zone and provides a much wider lane, is an improvement over the four speed-inducing traffic lanes and skinny bike lane that […]

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Advocates: Help Make BART’s Rush Hour “Bikes On Board” Pilot a Success

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 22, 2012 | 19 Comments

[Update: BART released a video explaining the bikes-on-board rush hour pilot.] BART announced a pilot last week to lift the ban on bikes aboard rush-hour trains each Friday in August. The news is cause for celebration among bike advocates, who are calling upon bike-toting passengers to help make the pilot a success by setting a […]

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