Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Plan

Valencia Project Will Bring Improvements Worth the Short-Term Headaches

By Michael Rhodes | Jul 20, 2009 | 21 Comments

Construction begins this week on a nine-month project that could periodically disrupt Valencia Street’s bike lanes. The result, residents hope, will be a greatly improved streetscape for pedestrians and bicyclists. Valencia Street at 15th Street. Flickr photo: Iznot The Valencia Streetscape Improvements project, which spans Valencia from 15th Street to 19th Street, is intended to […]

Things Are Heating Up!

By Chris Carlsson | Jul 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

New Bike Plan! Let’s Get Naked and Celebrate! Critical Mass San Francisco, June 2009. I was glad to see “We Are the World” on the ridiculously inadequate Climate Change bill that finally emerged from the corrupt U.S. Congress. Sadly, the bill could only emerge with the support of a number of mainstream environmental lobbyists in […]

Rob Anderson, SFBC, Chronicle Reporter to Discuss Bike Plan on KQED Radio

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 30, 2009 | 39 Comments

KQED radio studio. Flickr photo: David Sifry Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, will debate and discuss the newly approved Bike Plan with Rob Anderson on KQED radio’s "Forum" program tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. Anderson, the bicyclist-hating obstructionist who filed the lawsuit that has locked the Bike Plan in […]

Mayor Newsom a “Yes and No” On More Bicycle Riding

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 26, 2009 | 5 Comments

Flickr photo from 2005: snikolhaus Considering all the new bicycle infrastructure that’ll hopefully start going in at the end of the summer, or early fall, I asked Mayor Newsom outside City Hall today after a press conference celebrating the passage of the Bike Plan if he’s planning to do any more bicycling. His response? "Yes […]

Mayor Newsom, City Agencies and Advocates Celebrate Bike Plan

By Matthew Roth | Jun 26, 2009 | 24 Comments

Mayor Newsom said bike lanes were part of a sustainable, 21st Century city. Photo: Matthew Roth At a press conference this afternoon characterized by relief and jubilation, Mayor Gavin Newsom, representatives from the city agencies responsible for San Francisco’s streets, and bicycle advocates celebrated the MTA’s adoption of the Bike Plan and the legislation of […]

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