Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Plan

SF Transportation Authority Bicycle Tracker Available for Android

By Matthew Roth | Dec 15, 2009 | 4 Comments

As we reported last month, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (TA) released an innovative new application for mobile devices that allows users to track their bicycle commuting patterns with a GPS-enabled iPhone or iPod and share those trips with the agency responsible for improving bicycle networks around the city. Now CycleTracks is compatible on […]

Mayor, MTA and Bike Activists Celebrate First New Bike Lane in Three Years

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 3, 2009 | 18 Comments

SFBC’s Leah Shahum, the MTA’s Oliver Gajda and SFBC Board Member Dan Nguyen-Tan in the freshly painted green bike box on Scott Street at Oak. Photo by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, three members of the Board of Supervisors, MTA officials, SFBC staff and bicyclists — standing in the glaring fall sun amidst […]

Paint-Happy MTA Crews Prepare for Physically Separated Market St Lane

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 2, 2009 | 12 Comments

A freshly installed Mississippi Street bike lane, made of thermoplastic, which dries in 30 seconds. The installation was a little tricky because of the rough street terrain but the kick ass DPT crew got it perfectly straight. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Though it might sound incredible to San Franciscans who have followed bicycle issues for […]

Eyes On the Street: SF Gets Its First New Bike Lane in Three Years

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 1, 2009 | 26 Comments

The SFBC’s Andy Thornley was the first to ride in the new Scott Street bike lane. Flickr photo: sfbike San Francisco bicycle riders this morning let out a loud cheer, popped open a bottle of champagne and toasted the city’s first bike lane in three years: a freshly painted sliver of Scott Street on the […]

MTA Crews Will Begin Painting New Bike Lanes Tomorrow

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

This bike box on Scott Street will be painted green in a six-month trial. Photo by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco is about to get its first new bike lane in more than three years along with a colored bike box! Progress has been long stalled by the injunction but the fact that the MTA is […]

Judge Issues Order Allowing Ten First-Year Bike Projects to Go Forward

By Bryan Goebel and Michael Rhodes | Nov 25, 2009 | 68 Comments

Under the judge’s order, the MTA can only install 3.7 of the 14 miles of bike lanes it had hoped to paint in the first year. Flickr photo: Doubletee A San Francisco judge issued an order [PDF] modifying the three-year-old bike injunction late Wednesday afternoon, refusing to dissolve it completely, but allowing the "most easily […]

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