Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

CalBike Proposes Rebate Program for the Ultimate ZEV

By Melanie Curry | Feb 18, 2016 | No Comments

What vehicle produces no emissions, uses no fossil fuels, is easily maintained, costs little, gets you where you want to go quickly, and improves your health? Well, obviously, a bicycle. So why doesn’t the California Air Resources Board (ARB), which is spending millions of dollars on incentives and rebates to get people to buy zero-emission […]

Two Horrific Bay Area Crashes Highlight Need for Faster Action

By Roger Rudick | Feb 8, 2016 | 11 Comments

Megan Schwarzman, 42, a research scientist at the Berkeley School of Public Health, was riding her bike southbound on Fulton Street near Bankcroft Way on Tuesday around 5 p.m. when she was hit and dragged under a car driven by Berwick Haynes, a Sunnyvale resident. Haynes remained at the scene and was later arrested for […]

Crowdsource Bicycling App ‘Ride Report’ Goes National Today

By Joe Linton | Feb 4, 2016 | No Comments

Since last September, Portland cyclists have been generating bike trip data via the free Ride Report app. Today, Ride Report has completed its Portland beta and is now open for use throughout the United States. Ride Report, currently available for iPhone only (Android coming soon), runs in the background. The app knows when riders are riding […]

Market Street Cyclist Stands up to Road Rager

By Roger Rudick | Feb 2, 2016 | 53 Comments

Last Thursday, at 1:30 in the afternoon, 32-year-old Casey Ann Dilou was riding her bike northeast on Market between 8th and 7th when she heard a car horn blaring behind her. She turned around and saw a blue Ford Minivan driving dangerously close with the passenger yelling out the window “run her over” and “get […]

The Feds Want to Reform the Cult of “Level of Service”

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 29, 2016 | No Comments

“What you measure is what you get,” the saying goes. That’s certainly true for transportation policy. And for a very long time one metric has reigned supreme on American streets: “Level of Service,” a system that assigns letter grades based on motorist delay. Roughly speaking, a street with free-flowing traffic gets an A while one where […]

Streetsblog Talks with San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener

By Roger Rudick | Jan 28, 2016 | 8 Comments

Scott Wiener, who has served District 8 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2011, was re-elected this week as chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. The Authority was created in 1989 and it works closely with the Municipal Transportation Agency, funding and shepherding long-term projects such as the Van Ness and […]

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