Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Culture

San Francisco’s State of Cycling: Is It Falling Behind?

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 19, 2012 | 42 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency released its four-year State of Cycling Report [PDF] this week. While the findings in the report may not be new to those keeping an eye on the growth of bicycling in San Francisco — which has jumped 71 percent from 2006 to 2011 — bike advocates say it highlights the […]

Walk Score Calculates City Bikeability, SF Comes in Second to Minneapolis

By Tanya Snyder | May 14, 2012 | No Comments

The people behind Walk Score, the real estate rating service that goes by the slogan “Drive Less, Live More,” are out with a new rating system, based on hard data, that should prove useful to prospective city dwellers: Bike Score. The company launched the Bike Score website today, using its new algorithm to rank the ten […]

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Bike to Work Day Shifts Into High Gear Tomorrow

By Aaron Bialick | May 9, 2012 | 17 Comments

San Francisco’s streets are expected to fill with bike commuters tomorrow for the city’s 18th Bike to Work Day. The city has more bike lanes, more people on bikes, and more political momentum for bike policy today than in years past. “We definitely expect to see more people bicycling on Bike to Work Day this year […]

What 20 Percent of Trips by Bike Looks Like in Aarhus, Denmark

By Aaron Bialick | May 8, 2012 | 3 Comments

It can be hard to imagine what San Francisco’s streets would look like if the city reaches its official goal of having 20 percent of trips by bike by 2020. As SF begins rolling out protected bike lanes like the one on JFK Drive, there’s some skepticism out there as to whether the dream of […]

JFK Protected Bike Lanes Get Seal of Approval From the Bike-Savvy Dutch

By Aaron Bialick | May 1, 2012 | 24 Comments

This year’s celebration of the Dutch Queen’s Day in San Francisco was a bit special. When the event’s 100-or-so celebrants traversed the city by bike in the second annual “Market-to-Mill” ride (Market Street to the Dutch windmill in Golden Gate Park, a.k.a the Bay to Beach route), the orange-clad caravan traveled through San Francisco’s first bicycle […]

How Bikes Make Portland Cool

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2012 | 18 Comments

A mini-documentary out of Portland, Oregon showcases the vibrant bicycle culture the city enjoys, from “bike trains” of kids riding to school on traffic-calmed bike boulevards to a range of everyday people getting around by bike simply because it’s “accessible.” As San Francisco strives to be the most bike-friendly city on the west coast, we can […]

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