Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Divided By a Highway, East Palo Alto Looks to Reconnect Its West Side

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 25, 2012 | 3 Comments

This is the first in a series of stories on East Palo Alto’s proposed bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing. It takes Maria del Socorro Macias about 40 minutes to walk from her neighborhood on the west side of East Palo Alto to her kids’ schools on the east side of Highway 101. To get there, she […]

Protected Bike Lanes Selected as Preferred Option for 2nd Street Project

By Robert Prinz | Oct 23, 2012 | 25 Comments

Following a public process that revealed a strong preference for protected bike lanes, the SF Department of Public Works yesterday announced the selection of the preferred option for the Second Street Improvement Project. And yes, the design includes one-way protected bike lanes on each side of the street. The redesign will extend from Market Street to King Street, […]

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SFMTA Board Approves Fell and Oak Bikeways, Work to Begin This Month

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 17, 2012 | 24 Comments

Construction will begin this month on physically separated bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements on three critical blocks of Fell and Oak Streets after the project was approved unanimously yesterday by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors. “This is such a game-changer,” said SF Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Leah Shahum. “I think when […]

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Fell/Oak Bikeways Go to SFMTA Board, Could Be Partially Done This Year

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 4, 2012 | 32 Comments

The plan for protected bike lanes on Fell and Oak Streets could be completed by the end of this year — at least partially. The project is scheduled to go up for final approval by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors on October 16, and if it passes, all but the concrete work […]

SFMTA Adds Green Treatments, Posts to Eastern Cesar Chavez Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 4, 2012 | 9 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency added “safe-hit” posts and dashed green pavement treatments to the bike lanes on eastern Cesar Chavez Street this week between Vermont and Pennsylvania streets. The new additions should improve the sense of separation, safety and visibility for people using the bike lanes, which were installed this spring. The bike lanes replaced […]

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SFMTA Sets Out to Create a Safer, More Convivial Polk Street

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 28, 2012 | 19 Comments

An effort to revamp conditions on Polk Street for walking, socializing, bicycling, and transit is underway by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, and residents say they’re eager to see calmer motor traffic, wider sidewalks, better bike lanes and more public space along the corridor. At a well-attended SFMTA community meeting on Wednesday, planners said construction […]

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