Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

Let’s Make “Bike to Work Day” a “Check-Up Day” On Bay Area Bike Lanes

By Roger Rudick | May 11, 2016 | 29 Comments

Behold, in the photo above, San Francisco bicycle infrastructure, at the end of St. Charles way, where it deadends at Brotherhood Way in Oceanview. There’s a walking path at the end that leads to Brotherhood Way. There’s a large curb. Exactly what this sharrow marking is supposed to accomplish is difficult to imagine. Perhaps a […]

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SFMTA Open House Gets Feedback on Bike Lanes and More

By Roger Rudick | May 10, 2016 | 12 Comments

Some 30 residents of the Western Addition, Lower Haight and Hayes Valley neighborhoods (plus some interested folks from outside the area) showed up Monday night to the auditorium at John Muir Elementary School to learn about SFMTA’s plans on three different, but related, projects: the Western Addition Community-Based Transportation Plan, the Lower Haight Public Realm […]

Bike Month in the East Bay: Where Bike to Work Day Began?

By Melanie Curry | May 9, 2016 | No Comments

It’s generally acknowledged that Bike to Work Day was started by the League of American Bicyclists—then called the League of American Wheelmen—in 1956. Rumor has it (can anyone confirm this?) that in California the first Bike to Work Day event took place in San Diego circa 1993. What’s indisputable is that Bike East Bay, then […]

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One Year Later: Assaulted Cyclist Reflects

By Roger Rudick | May 6, 2016 | 17 Comments

Last year, Streetsblog brought you the story of Anthony Ryan, a middle-aged art instructor who teaches at several San Francisco colleges. He was on his way home one evening from a job at San Francisco State, around 9 p.m. this time last year, when he suddenly found himself in mortal danger at the hands of […]

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SF Bicycle Coalition’s “Bike Talks” Series

By Roger Rudick | May 3, 2016 | 2 Comments

Monday evening, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition held the second of its first three scheduled “Bike Talks,” a series it plans to continue to foster discussion and help shape its advocacy. Here’s how the SFBC describes the meetings: Here at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, we know our members love to dig deep on the […]

Steal a Bike from this Guy?

By Roger Rudick | Apr 29, 2016 | 14 Comments

San Francisco native Ramon Solis was working out with his class at Quantum Martial Arts on 20th Street and Mission on Wednesday night when he heard a loud grinding sound coming from the street. “I am deaf in one ear but I still heard an angle grinder. It was 7 pm so it was too late to […]

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