Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

Mayor Lee on Bike Demo: “I Won’t Bend to Interests Who Disregard Safety”

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 29, 2015 | 138 Comments

Contrasting with Supervisor London Breed’s sensible position on the demonstration planned in response to the SFPD’s impending bike crackdown, we bring you a dispatch from the hidebound side of City Hall — Room 200. Mayor Ed Lee weighed in today on the plan from bike commuters on the Wiggle to fully comply with the stop sign law en masse this […]

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Sup. Breed Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 29, 2015 | 71 Comments

Updated at 1:04 p.m. with comments from Dave Snyder of the California Bicycle Coalition. Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs. Breed voiced her position today in today’s […]

SFPD Tickets Bike Commuters Trying to Get By Car Queue on Page Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 28, 2015 | 274 Comments

Here’s today’s edition of egregious waste of SFPD resources used to harass people on bikes. SFPD officers were posted at the bottom of the hill on Page Street at Octavia Boulevard this morning ticketing bike commuters who squeezed to the left of stopped cars. Freeway-bound drivers routinely queue up to turn right, occupying several blocks of Page’s only eastbound traffic […]

Wiggle Riders to Show Folly of Stop Sign Law By Complying With It

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 27, 2015 | 50 Comments

What if everyone on a bike followed the letter of the law and made a complete stop at every stop sign, as if they were driving a car? “It would have disastrous effects to traffic patterns,” say the organizers of a “Wiggle Stop-In” demonstration planned for Wednesday evening. “That’s what we intend to show.” Organizers at the […]

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SFPD Captain Justifies Bike Crackdown By Misconstruing “Focus on the Five”

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 24, 2015 | 99 Comments

SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford is misconstruing the premise of his department’s “Focus on the Five” campaign to justify diverting precious traffic enforcement resources for his own campaign: getting people on bikes to always stop at stop signs, once and for all. Here’s a refresher on Focus on the Five, for those, like Sanford, who need it… […]

McAllister Street Set to Get Two Traffic Circles Instead of Signals

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2015 | 54 Comments

McAllister Street, a popular bike route where SFMTA’s Muni Forward planners want to speed up the 5-Fulton, would have stop signs replaced by traffic circles at two intersections under the agency’s latest proposal. Under the plan [PDF], which must be approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors, McAllister would become the first street to get traffic circles […]

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