Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Making the Best of Having Your Bicycle Stolen

By Matthew Roth | Apr 14, 2009 | 6 Comments

Screenshot from the Stolen Bikes Database website With spring here and nice weather, a lot of us will be riding our bikes more often, which means thieves will be on the prowl for poorly locked bikes. For anyone who has had a bicycle stolen, there are few feelings as dreadful. The SFBC has a great […]

GM and Segway Unveil La-Z-Boy on Wheels

By Matthew Roth | Apr 7, 2009 | 10 Comments

A revolutionary personal mobility device. Hint: it’s NOT the couple in the foreground I’d be laughing right now if I could just stop crying. I thought billions in taxpayer money and Wagoner’s presidential dismissal were supposed to mark the end of General Motors’ bad plans, and I naively hoped the company would replace Dummers with […]

Eyes on the Street: When Repaving Becomes a Hazard

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 7, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photos by Bryan Goebel If you’ve pedaled along Howard Street in SoMa lately, you’ve no doubt noticed the shoddy paving between 6th and 8th Streets. A DPW contractor repaved the street as part of a sewer main replacement project but in several areas left a two inch shelf in the middle of the bike lane, […]

News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

The trial plaza at Madison Square When we wrote about the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Market Street that DPW expects to start this May, the story generated numerous doubts about how the city would create a successful public space out of a busy street abutting a gas station. As commenter Josh said, […]

Ad Nauseam: Kentucky Fried Potholes

By Matthew Roth | Apr 1, 2009 | 7 Comments

Not so Good Frickin’ Chickin’ In casting around for a good April Fool’s Day joke, I found yesterday’s New York Times Lede blog report on the chicken frying corporation KFC doing some pothole repair in Louisville, complete with this photo of Colonel Sanders in a hardhat and construction bib. I thought for sure the Times […]

The World’s Best Music Videos Featuring Bicycles

By Matthew Roth | Mar 26, 2009 | 12 Comments

Dave Burdick yesterday offered up his choices for the Top 5 videos featuring a bicycle on the Huffington Post. While it’s nice to see the mainstream blogosphere types showing some love for two-wheelers, c’mon man! Robin Thicke bouncing around NYC on a crappy bike to "Disco Beethoven" is the world’s number one bike video?! I […]

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