Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Saving Life and Limb By Avoiding the Door Zone

By Matthew Roth | Feb 25, 2010 | 18 Comments

DIY Door Zone stencil from Portland, OR. Photo: BikePortland.org Many urban cyclists have a tale to tell about a car door that swung out into their path and nearly knocked them from their bikes. Hopefully, the story ends there, with no injuries or further harm. Some haven’t been so lucky, however, as they’ve been thrown […]

Eyes on the Street: Market Street Bike Lane Puts the Squeeze on Cyclists

By Joshua Hart | Feb 24, 2010 | 27 Comments

The bike lane on Market at 10th St. was already narrow before the installation of safe-hit posts. Photos by Josh Hart. Cyclists traveling inbound on Market Street are being squeezed into an unnecessarily narrow bike lane as a result of safe-hit posts installed to enforce the new required right turn at 10th Street. The posts, […]

Streetfilms: Sharrows Point the Safe Way to Bike Across Rail Tracks

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Feb 12, 2010 | 7 Comments

It’s something even the most experienced cyclists do: wipe out while crossing a set of train tracks. When you ride across rails, you need to maneuver your bike’s angle of approach so that you hit the tracks as perpendicularly as possible. But even knowing that, some riders don’t slow down enough to sashay properly, and […]

Fell Street Arco Bike Lane Might See Improvements Soon

By Matthew Roth | Feb 10, 2010 | 21 Comments

Click to enlarge. Proposed changes to Fell St. bike lane, soft-hit posts in red. The MTA might have a solution for the dangerous conditions at the Fell Street Arco gas station, where motorists queueing up to buy gas routinely block the bike lane and force cyclists to navigate between bumpers or try their hand a […]

Reviewing the Policing of Critical Mass

By Chris Carlsson | Feb 8, 2010 | 19 Comments

Now that the new police chief has announced he is going to "review" department procedures with respect to Critical Mass, I think it might be a good time to "review" the history of the relationship between Critical Mass and the police. I have to emphasize that this relationship has evolved in the context of a […]

Driver Arrested in Death of Los Gatos Cyclist

By Michael Rhodes | Feb 2, 2010 | 20 Comments

Click to enlarge. Joshua West and his daughter Briana. Photo: Ashley Cushman The driver of a Chevrolet Blazer who struck and killed a 28-year-old cyclist in Los Gatos has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. Kevin Darr of San Jose, the 50-year-old driver, was arrested and admitted to the custody ward of Valley Medical […]

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