Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Plan

SFMTA Crews Begin Striping Alemany Boulevard Buffered Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | May 19, 2011 | 21 Comments

Alemany Boulevard will soon be dramatically safer for cycling as SFMTA crews began striping the city’s newest stretch of buffered bike lanes today. Despite acting as a vital connection between the Glen Park and Bayview neighborhoods, this stretch of Alemany between Rousseau Street and Bayshore Boulevard [pdf] has long been uninviting for people who bike […]

Work Begins on Upper Market Street Bike Lane Improvements

By Aaron Bialick | May 3, 2011 | 9 Comments

Preparations for improvements [pdf] to the Upper Market Street bike lanes are underway and when completed will mark a step towards safer passage for travelers by bike at three intersections along the city’s busiest bike corridor, where a vision for a protected bikeway was dropped nearly forty years ago. The extended bike lanes should provide […]

A Letter to the New York Times: Safe Streets Are Family-Friendly Streets

By Michael Rhodes | Apr 22, 2011 | 42 Comments

In light of Scott James’ egregious hit piece on the Bike Plan that ran in the New York Times today, I’ve decided to write the editors of that paper a letter, from a genuine resident of 17th Street. What does family-friendly mean? What’s more important: safety or parking? Do most San Franciscans ever ride a […]

In Ideal Weather, SFMTA Crews Install Bike Boxes on Market and Van Ness

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 30, 2011 | 10 Comments

Working in 80 degree weather, smiling SFMTA crews installed two green bike boxes in both directions of Market Street at Van Ness Avenue today, the latest pieces of innovative infrastructure to grace the city’s main thoroughfare, which continues to become a much friendlier street for people who bike, walk and take transit. In addition to […]

Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Crews Begin Striping 17th Street Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 11, 2011 | 62 Comments

Bicyclists have begun taking advantage of the new bike lanes being installed this week along the western section of the 17th Street corridor, with many riders saying they began feeling a greater sense of safety just as soon as the first stripes were laid down by Wednesday from Valencia to Church Streets. In interviews with Streetsblog, […]

SFMTA, Newsom Support Study of Protected Oak and Fell Bike lanes

By Matthew Roth | Dec 9, 2010 | 22 Comments

During routine business at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board meeting Tuesday, Director Cheryl Brinkman recounted how enjoyable it was to ride her bicycle on the new physically separated bike lane on Division Street between 9th and 11th Streets. Brinkman said she hoped the SFMTA would consider how it could improve the connection for […]

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