Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

Tomorrow: Support Car Restrictions for a Safer Market, Which Uber Opposes

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 15, 2015 | 16 Comments

You can email public comments on the “Safer Market Street” car restrictions to the SFMTA board at MTABoard@sfmta.com. The SFMTA Board of Directors is set to vote tomorrow on whether to ban private auto drivers from turning onto mid-Market Street, part of a package of safety improvements and transit upgrades. While the improvements seem to be […]

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Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 12, 2015 | 37 Comments

Two years after the city gave Fisherman’s Wharf a people-friendly redesign on two blocks of Jefferson Street, business is booming. Despite merchants’ fears that removing all car parking on the blocks would hurt their sales, they now say it had the opposite effect. The second phase of the project, which will bring a similar treatment […]

Sup. Christensen: Make the Stockton Tunnel Better for Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 11, 2015 | 15 Comments

D3 Supervisor Julie Christensen wants to make the Stockton Tunnel more comfortable to walk and bike through. She announced today that she procured at least $100,000 in the city budget for a study of improvements in the next fiscal year. “Union Square is known all over the world. Chinatown is known all over the world,” […]

Five Key Lessons From Europe’s Vision Zero Success

By Leah Shahum | Jun 10, 2015 | No Comments

Cross-posted from the Vision Zero Network From the moment that Vision Zero began capturing attention in American cities, we’ve heard many admiring references to its success in Europe, particularly in its birthplace of Sweden. I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to research those experiences and their lessons for the growing number of American communities working […]

SFPD Driver Strikes and Kills Cyclist “DJ” Pinkerton, 23, on Dangerous Road

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 8, 2015 | 10 Comments

Donald “D.J.” Pinkerton, 23, was killed on his bike in a crash with an SFPD driver on Friday night at a dangerous intersection at the edge of McLaren Park which is set to get traffic calming improvements. The SFPD has told reporters that officers are still investigating the crash, which occurred at about 9 p.m. at Sunnydale […]

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Supe Kim, SFMTA Get Tips From Copenhagen on Creating a Bikeable City

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 5, 2015 | 31 Comments

Supervisor Jane Kim and SFMTA officials took a trip last month to learn about best practices from two leading bike-friendly cities: Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmö, Sweden. “I’d assumed that [Copenhagen] always had a bike culture,” Kim told Streetsblog. “I was surprised to learn that they also had a cars-first culture through the 60s and 90s. They’ve actually […]

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