Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Supervisors Want More Bicycling Classes in Their Districts at Less Expense

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 25, 2015 | 12 Comments

Several supervisors say they’d like to see city-funded bike education classes distibuted more equally among their districts, and to attract more participants to reduce the per-person cost of the program. At a recent committee meeting of the SF County Transportation Authority Board, which is comprised of supervisors, members raised their concerns when they approved a […]

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Police Ticket Cyclists Who Fail to Navigate Market and Octavia’s Bad Design

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2015 | 51 Comments

Police were seen ticketing people on bikes navigating a poorly-designed junction at the dangerous Market Street and Octavia Boulevard intersection yesterday in the latest “People Behaving Badly” segment from KRON 4’s Stanley Roberts. The bike lane’s design is so flawed, in fact, that the only bike commuter Roberts showed navigating it properly happened to be one of the […]

Driver Kills Cyclist Charles Vinson, 66, at 14th and Folsom

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 3, 2015 | 86 Comments

Update: SFPD issued a response below. Charles Vinson, 66, was struck by a driver at 14th and Folsom Streets in the Mission yesterday and died from his injuries today. A witness saw the driver of a Honda Civic “blow through a red light and strike the bicyclist as the bicyclist waited for the light to turn green,” according to the […]

New Bike Lanes in Sunnyvale Could Be Just the Beginning for El Camino Real

By Andrew Boone | Feb 18, 2015 | 12 Comments

To build a bike network, you’ve gotta start somewhere, and on El Camino Real, it started in Sunnyvale last month. The first bike lanes on El Camino Real are six feet wide, striped along the curb with no protection from traffic, running half a mile from Sunnyvale Avenue to Fair Oaks Avenue/Remington Drive, near the city’s […]

Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Safety Tweaks on Upper Market, Valencia

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 16, 2015 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA recently made some upgrades to bike lanes and pedestrian crossings around Valencia Street and Market Street. Near Octavia Boulevard, the Market bike lanes were widened and painted green, and a buffer zone was added, making it a bit more comfortable for commuters pedaling up the hill from lower to upper Market towards the […]

San Jose Council Calls for Banning Sidewalk Cycling on Five Downtown Streets

By Andrew Boone | Dec 10, 2014 | 4 Comments

Last Tuesday, the San Jose City Council voted unanimously (9-0) directing the city’s transportation department to draft an ordinance prohibiting bicycling on sidewalks along five streets in the city’s downtown: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and San Fernando. The ordinance would except children aged 12 and under, adults transporting children of those ages, and police officers. […]

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