Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Assembly Joins Senate and Says: Give Me 3

By Damien Newton | Sep 7, 2011 | No Comments

The California State Assembly joined the Senate in passing S.B. 910 yesterday by an overwhelming 41-20 vote. S.B. 910 would require motorists to give bicyclists a three foot cushion when passing at miles in excess of fifteen miles an hour. The legislation needs re-approval by the Senate, something that occurs 99 percent of the time, […]

Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments

It’s back-to-school time, and along with it, the requisite crackdown over kids getting to school by bike. A few years ago, we highlighted cases from Mississippi to British Columbia where authorities stopped kids from walking alone. And now, we have the case of Teresa Tryon of Tennessee, threatened with criminal charges for letting her child […]

Streetsblog Interview: SFPD Captain Al Casciato, Head of Traffic Company

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 31, 2011 | 23 Comments

In light of the increased enforcement on Market Street, and stories I’ve been hearing from bicyclists about being targeted for minor infractions, I’ve had a number of questions for the San Francisco Police Department. I decided to turn to the person who heads up the SFPD’s Traffic Company, Captain Al Casciato, who is also a […]

SFMTA Tries New Bike Lane Treatments to Keep Cyclists Clear of Door Zone

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 30, 2011 | 54 Comments

The door zone is one of the biggest urban threats to bicyclists. Conventional bike lanes that squeeze bicyclists between the door zone and automobile traffic leave little room for error, but the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is piloting a series of projects designed to encourage bicyclists to steer clear of the door zone. On […]

City Planner Hurt by Driver Making Illegal Right Turn at Market and Octavia

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 25, 2011 | 73 Comments

John Billovits is all too familiar with the perils of one of the city’s most hazardous intersections for bicyclists. For the past decade, he has traveled through the Market and Octavia intersection on his daily bicycle commute. As a senior planner at the San Francisco Planning Department, Billovits was also the project manager for the […]

Eyes on the Street: What Do You Think of the New SFO Bike Lanes?

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 19, 2011 | 50 Comments

New bike lanes were recently installed around San Francisco International Airport, and the reviews are coming in. Streetsblog San Francisco reader John Murphy, who was the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s 2010 Commuter of the Year, thinks there’s lots of room for improvement. He sent us this scolding review, along with the photos: The new bike […]

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