Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

SMCTA: East Palo Alto Can’t Use Highway Money for Safe Crossing at Less Cost

By Andrew Boone | Jul 20, 2015 | 1 Comment

East Palo Alto is the latest city to be prohibited by the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (TA) from using highway funds to build a bike and pedestrian bridge across a highway. In this case, city planners actually found a way to cut costs on a planned ramp expansion at the Highway 101 interchange at University Avenue and use the […]

East Palo Alto Bay Trail Will Be Built. Will Current Residents Benefit From It?

By Andrew Boone | May 22, 2015 | 6 Comments

The pieces are in place to build a key link in the San Francisco Bay Trail, providing a continuous bike route through East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Given the trail’s proximity to Facebook and the lack of housing close to the company’s campus, East Palo is also looking to strengthen its affordable housing policies to […]

San Jose to Adopt Vision Zero But No Target Date to End Traffic Deaths

By Andrew Boone | May 11, 2015 | 3 Comments

The San Jose City Council is expected to adopt a Vision Zero plan [PDF] tomorrow, making it the third major city in the Bay Area and the tenth in the nation to commit to ending traffic deaths. But San Jose isn’t setting a timeline to achieve this goal. “For years, San Jose created a roadway system exclusively for […]

Santa Clara OKs Road Diet, Bike Lanes on “Ludicrously Overbuilt” Tasman Dr.

By Andrew Boone | Apr 29, 2015 | 8 Comments

Santa Clara’s City Council unanimously approved a road diet last week on the city’s 1.5-mile section of Tasman Drive. Tasman, east of Great America Parkway, will have two of its six traffic lanes re-purposed for wide buffered bike lanes and permanent median fences to protect Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)’s light-rail tracks. West of Great American Parkway, where Tasman was […]

Belmont Police Blame Cyclist for Getting in the Way of Driver’s Left Turn

By Andrew Boone | Apr 23, 2015 | 34 Comments

When a 90-year-old driver turned left into the path of a man bicycling on Ralston Avenue, the Belmont Police Department blamed the victim for talking on a cell phone and not wearing a helmet. The department also warned people on bikes against “carrying packages and bags” in its press release. None of those behaviors are illegal, nor […]

Leah Shahum Launches “Vision Zero Network” to Raise the Standard for Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 13, 2015 | No Comments

Vision Zero — the idea that we should no longer accept traffic deaths and serious injuries — is gaining momentum as a framework for thinking about city streets and transportation, as more American cities adopt the goal of ending traffic fatalities. But what actually constitutes a Vision Zero policy? What are the best strategies to dramatically […]

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