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SFMTA’s Bicycle Strategy Could Make SF Top in the Nation — If It’s Funded

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 30, 2013 | 5 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency has mapped out a course that could make San Francisco the most bike-friendly city in the nation. All it needs now, it seems, is the political leadership to step up and fund what SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin has called the “most cost-effective investment we can make in moving people.” The SFMTA’s Draft […]

SFMTA Lays Out Draft Targets to Improve Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2013 | 27 Comments

This morning the SF Municipal Transportation Agency is presenting its strategic plans to reduce pedestrian injuries and increase bike ridership over the next five years at a staff workshop with the agency’s board of directors. It’s an important moment for livable streets in San Francisco, and we’ll be bringing you detailed coverage after the workshop. […]

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Great Highway Re-Paving to Come With Minor Bike-Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2013 | 17 Comments

The Great Highway, the motorway that divides Ocean Beach from the Outer Sunset and Richmond, is set to get some bike lane and pedestrian improvements north of Lincoln Way as part of a nine-month re-paving project started this week by the Department of Public Works. The 6-foot painted bike lanes planned between Lincoln and Cabrillo Street would […]

SFMTA Installs Bike Lanes, Back-In Angled Parking on John Muir Drive

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 4, 2013 | 8 Comments

John Muir Drive, which runs along the south side of Lake Merced, was upgraded last month with bike lanes separated by posts and buffer zones on some stretches. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency also converted angled parking spots on the road to the safer back-in angled configuration, which lets drivers see their path better when […]

The Left-Turn Bike Signal at Market and Valencia Is Open for Business

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 29, 2012 | 40 Comments

It’s officially rideable: The left-turn pocket and traffic signal connecting Market and Valencia Streets is finished as of today, the SFMTA announced on its Livable Streets Facebook page. Finally, the bicycling gates from Market to the Mission have been opened to people who don’t feel comfortable merging across three traffic lanes and a set of streetcar […]

Eyes on the Street: Progress on Market/Valencia Turn, Green Paint on Fell

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 26, 2012 | 9 Comments

Improvements on two of San Francisco’s most important bicycling links continue to take shape: Green paint now graces the first block of the Fell Street separated bike lane, and much of the visible construction has been completed on the left-turn bicycle lane and traffic signal going in at Market and Valencia Streets. Streetsblog reader Mark […]

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