Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

Spectacular New Devil’s Slide Trail Difficult to Reach Without a Car

By Andrew Boone | Apr 1, 2014 | 21 Comments

The 1.3-mile “Devil’s Slide” segment of Highway 1 just south of Pacifica is the latest addition to San Mateo County’s 20 parks. The freshly-paved walking and biking trail offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean and its coastal cliffs, and it’s by far the widest trail in the San Francisco Bay Area, with 12 feet striped for […]

Belmont’s Ralston Corridor Study Ignores Need for Safe, Direct Bicycling

By Andrew Boone | Mar 21, 2014 | 4 Comments

The Belmont City Council is gearing up to decide on a list of infrastructure investments intended to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion on Ralston Avenue. At a community meeting last month, representatives from consulting firms W-Trans and Alta Planning presented their Ralston Avenue Corridor Study, intended “to improve the multi-modal function” of the busy arterial street. Ralston Avenue […]

San Mateo Bike/Ped Projects Compete for Paltry Funding

By Andrew Boone | Mar 18, 2014 | 3 Comments

Of the 23 biking and walking projects with a hat in the ring for funding from the San Mateo County Transportation Authority’s (TA) Pedestrian and Bicycle Program, only ten can be funded with the $5.7 million that’s available. And that’s the largest funding source for bike/ped projects in the 20-city county. Meanwhile, unnecessary highway expansions are on track to […]

San Mateo County Bike/Ped Safety Projects Starved for Funding

By Andrew Boone | Mar 3, 2014 | 16 Comments

Despite growing demand for better walking and biking infrastructure in San Mateo County, active transportation grants from the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County (C/CAG) cover only a fraction of the projects that cities want to build, leaving many residents without the sidewalks, bike lanes, and other basic ingredients they need to safely […]

A Reminder: Congestion Pricing Will Save Lives

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 20, 2014 | 29 Comments

Congestion pricing resurfaced this week thanks to an SF Examiner article that was picked up by several other media sources, rightly framing it as a way to save lives. The Examiner highlighted a Department of Public Health report from 2011 [PDF], which estimated that in 2015, if drivers were charged $3 for heading into downtown […]

The Chron Still a Podium for Willie Brown’s Anti-Bike, Pro-Freeway Garbage

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 10, 2014 | 30 Comments

Willie Brown’s successors don’t look so bad when reading the former mayor’s windshield perspective drivel in his latest Chronicle column. It’s hard to imagine San Franciscans once again electing a mayor who responds to a spate of pedestrian injuries by lambasting everything but the primary cause: reckless driving. But according to yesterday’s column from the increasingly out-of-touch Brown, […]

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