Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Plan

Don’t Look Now But Fresno is Sprouting Bike Lanes

By Matthew Ridgway | Dec 1, 2010 | 12 Comments

Editor’s note: Matthew Ridgway is a principal at Fehr and Peers, a transportation design and engineering firm that routinely consults on bicycle and pedestrian projects throughout California. His firm was hired to help develop Fresno’s Bicycle Master Plan. Bryan Jones, the city of Fresno’s traffic engineer, contributed to this report. A collective sigh of relief […]

A Pleasant Ride to the Beach in the New Kirkham Street Bike Lanes

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 14, 2010 | 42 Comments

San Franciscans who live in the Sunset or want to pedal to the beach now have a three-mile stretch of bike lanes on Kirkham Street from 9th Avenue to the Great Highway. I rode the new bike lanes over the weekend and it was a mostly calm, relaxing ride. I typically pedal through Golden Gate […]

San Francisco, Oakland Move up National List of Bicycle Commuting Cities

By Matthew Roth | Oct 7, 2010 | 11 Comments

Despite a four-year bicycle injunction starting in 2006, San Francisco’s share of bicycle commuting has risen, lifting the city to 4th on the League of American Bicyclists’ (LAB) list of 70 largest American cities, while Oakland rose two spaces to 5th. The list is compiled each year from data collected by the Census Bureau as […]

Driver Who Killed Bicyclist on Masonic Facing Manslaughter, DUI Charges

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 16, 2010 | 62 Comments

What remained of Nils Linke’s bicycle. Photo: CBS5. A 37-year-old Oakland man has been identified as the driver of a 1989 Mercedes-Benz who allegedly killed 22-year-old Nils Linke of Germany while he was riding his bicycle Friday night on Masonic Avenue near Turk Street, a tragic reminder that the SFMTA needs to act quickly to […]

SFPD Increases Enforcement on Wiggle as SFMTA Ponders Signal Priority

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 9, 2010 | 96 Comments

A bicyclist waits to turn left onto Fell from Scott, where SFPD officers have been ticketing cyclists for running the red light. Photos: Bryan Goebel. It’s no secret that many bicyclists pedaling through one of San Francisco’s most popular bicycling corridors, The Wiggle, often run the red light turning onto Fell Street from Scott. Whether […]

Cyclists Cheer as Judge Finally Frees San Francisco from Bike Injunction

By Bryan Goebel and Matthew Roth | Aug 6, 2010 | 11 Comments

Photo: Bryan Goebel After nearly four years of legal wrangling, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch lifted the city’s bike injunction this afternoon, freeing the SFMTA to begin working on implementing the remaining projects in the Bike Plan, and soundly rejecting the objections made by plaintiff Rob Anderson and his attorney Mary Miles. "We […]

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