Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

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SFMTA Wants to Remove King Street Bike Lanes, Won’t Improve Alternative

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2015 | 44 Comments

The SFMTA wants to remove bike lanes and sharrows on King Street in SoMa’s South Beach area to discourage bicycling on the truck-heavy street, Hoodline reports. The agency wants to divert bike commuters to the parallel stretch of Townsend Street, but has no plans to improve the bike lanes there, which are unprotected and routinely blocked by drivers near […]

New SFPD Park Station Captain’s Bike Crackdown Won’t Make Streets Safer

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 16, 2015 | 352 Comments

@SFPDPark obviously no crackdown needed here! Looks perfectly safe, @Bob_Gunderson approved. pic.twitter.com/VrOCM1NPwj — kevin (@ku1313) June 14, 2015 In the name of “protecting life,” SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford has promised a crackdown on people on bikes rolling through stop signs. The SF Bicycle Coalition and some neighborhood leaders are calling on Sanford not to divert […]

Protected Bike Lanes Finally Coming to Folsom Street Near Transbay Center

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 14, 2015 | 17 Comments

The city will hold a public meeting on Thursday evening to present updates on a plan to install protected bike lanes on Folsom Street near the Transbay Transit Center, east of Second Street. Construction on the project was previously expected to start this year, according to a city staff presentation from last June [PDF]. At the time, an […]

Cities Are Reinventing Transportation Planning for the Age of the Public Beta

By Michael Andersen | Jul 10, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. As protected bike lanes and other new-to-North-America designs have spread, they’ve created an exciting new era for American traffic engineers, who are once again getting the chance to solve new and interesting […]

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Safer San Jose Avenue Advocates Fend Off Attacks From Angry Motorists

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 7, 2015 | 37 Comments

The redesign of San Jose Avenue took a step forward a month ago when Caltrans removed a traffic lane on a Highway 280 off-ramp leading on to San Jose, a.k.a. the Bernal Cut. The plan is the result of decades of neighborhood advocacy for safer streets, but it is running into opposition from motorists who won’t stand for the road diet. Supporters […]

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Caltrain Board Ups Bike Capacity, Dumps Bathrooms on Electric Trains

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 2, 2015 | 153 Comments

Note: An earlier version of this article’s headline indicated that the increase in bike capacity came at the expense of bathrooms. The two were features were essentially unrelated. The Caltrain Board of Directors voted today to increase the share of space on its future electric trains devoted to bike capacity, though the trains may lack […]

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