Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Plan

Advocates Say MTC Proposal Short-Changes Regional Bike Network

By Matthew Roth | Jun 22, 2009 | 5 Comments

Photo: Michael Patrick Bicycle advocates are upset that the first draft of a spending plan to come out of the Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s (MTC) 25-year Change in Motion regional transportation blueprint falls far short on proposed funding for the regional bicycle network. They say the MTC is failing to demonstrate a commitment to bicycles. According […]

First Bike to School Day in San Francisco a Success

By Matthew Roth | May 28, 2009 | 9 Comments

A very happy bike-riding student at Monroe Elementary School in the Excelsior. Flickr photo: Marc Caswell All morning I’ve been asking myself (and some others) why kids riding bicycles to school is a pressworthy event. Don’t kids always ride bikes to school or have we become so car-dependent that even this sancrosanct part of being […]

For a City of Panhandles! Copenhagenize it!

By Chris Carlsson | May 19, 2009 | 14 Comments

Mona Caron’s rendition of 24th and Folsom after we’ve made a few basic changes. (Thanks to Mona Caron for this image, originally published in the Bay Guardian in 2006.) We’ve been waiting for years now to see some physical changes to accommodate the huge increase in daily bicycling. We did get an odd set of […]

Bike to Work Day Draws Record Crowds of Cyclists

By Matthew Roth and Bryan Goebel | May 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

Leah Shahum addresses hundreds in the crowd at City Hall San Francisco’s annual Bike to Work Day drew a record 200,000 bicyclists this morning, according to early estimates, making it the most successful bike to work day since it began 15 years ago. Crowds of cyclists took advantage of the SFBC Energizer Stations to get […]

The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate

By Matthew Roth | Mar 27, 2009 | 8 Comments

As soothsayers of the Sacred RAC priesthood like Rob Anderson will let you know time and again on his own blog, and sometimes on ours, all this talk of bike plans, Level-of-Service reform, parking restrictions in new development, and greening boulevards is nothing more than a thinly-veiled assault on our national right to drive freely […]

Streetscast: An Interview with District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 17, 2009 | 15 Comments

San Francisco Supervisor Carmen Chu represents the Sunset District, which includes some of the city’s major thoroughfares: the Great Highway, 19th and Sunset avenues and Sloat Boulevard. She was appointed to her post by the Mayor in 2007 and elected last November. Chu’s main mode of travel tends to shape her views on transportation issues. […]

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