Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

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SFSU Students Study How to Un-Suck Biking to BART

By Roger Rudick | May 25, 2016 | 18 Comments

Professor Jason Henderson’s “Bicycle Geographies” class wants the ride from Daily City BART to San Francisco State University’s campus to be comfortable and fun. And why shouldn’t it be? After all, it’s only a 1.6 mile trip that should take even a novice cyclist about 15 minutes. Given the proximity to BART, this should be a […]

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A Time to Remember

By Roger Rudick | May 23, 2016 | 3 Comments

Three years ago today, 21-year-old Dylan Mitchell was riding his bike east on 16th Street when a garbage truck traveling in the same direction turned on South Van Ness and collided with him. He died at the scene–a scene where flowers were left during Thursday night’s “Ride of Silence.” Mitchell was one of almost fifty […]

Police Chief Resigns: What Does it Mean for Livable Streets?

By Roger Rudick | May 20, 2016 | 13 Comments

As Streetsblog readers have surely heard, police Chief Greg Suhr was forced to resign Thursday after the shooting of an apparently unarmed woman by SFPD. The police shootings of Mario Woods in December and Luis Gongora in April both seemed to show a department where officers are failing to deescalate situations and are too quick […]

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Tim Doyle Crash Demands Faster Fixes for SF Streets

By Roger Rudick | May 16, 2016 | 14 Comments

On Bike to Work Day, 48-year-old Tim Doyle nearly died demonstrating, once again, the fundamental flaw of painting bike lanes between fast-moving traffic and parked cars. There’s no need to watch this horrible wreck again, which was shot from the cell phone of someone driving a few car lengths behind Doyle, if you’ve already seen […]

BREAKING NEWS: SFPD Hits Cyclist in Bike Lane

By Roger Rudick | May 13, 2016 | 37 Comments

This video just came in via the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the San Francisco Bike Ride Crew. It’s truly nuts. An SFPD cruiser apparently parked in the right-turn pocket suddenly pulls out, swerves left and hits a cyclist. Streetsblog will post more information as it comes in, but apparently the cyclist is Tim Doyle, […]

SF Celebrates Bike to Work Day

By Roger Rudick | May 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

San Francisco has come a long way. That was the theme of a rousing speech delivered by Margaret McCarthy, Interim Executive Director of the SF Bicycle Coalition, at a ceremony this morning in front of San Francisco City Hall. “We’ve seen a 184 percent increase in cycling in the past decade,” she said with her […]

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