Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

The Top 100 Neighborhoods for Bicycle Commuting Have a 21% Mode Share

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 5, 2015 | No Comments

City rankings of bike-friendliness — while fabulous click-bait for their purveyors — obscure dramatic differences among neighborhoods. Los Angeles doesn’t appear on any cycling top 10 lists, but the area to the north and west of the University of Southern California has a 20 percent bicycle mode share. The city of Miami Beach is no bike […]

Modesto: A Model Bike-Friendly City?

By Melanie Curry | May 27, 2015 | No Comments

The California central valley town of Modesto is not usually high on anyone’s list of cities embracing cutting-edge pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. But that may change soon. Modesto is one of the oldest cities in California, but like other central valley towns, it grew to accommodate car travel, with wide, fast streets, plenty of parking, […]

New Federal Guide Will Show More Cities the Way on Protected Bike Lanes

By Michael Andersen | May 20, 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. Protected bike lanes are now officially star-spangled. Eight years after New York City created a trailblazing protected bikeway on 9th Avenue, designs once perceived as unfit for American streets have now been detailed in a new […]

SFMTA Says It’s Just Getting Started on Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | May 14, 2015 | 35 Comments

City officials gathered for another Bike to Work Day rally at City Hall today to cheer for bicycling, celebrating a 206 percent jump in ridership since 2006, according to a new annual bike count released by the SFMTA today. There was the usual citation of bike traffic on eastbound Market Street at Van Ness Avenue: 76 percent […]

Happy Bike to Work Day, California

By Melanie Curry | May 14, 2015 | No Comments

Yes, yes, every day is bike to work day, but today is the day we get to celebrate it. Here’s a photo of one group of happy participants in Berkeley, California, where the mayors of Copenhagen, Denmark and Jena, Germany joined Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates for a “mayorpalooza” bike ride through town. We’re putting together […]

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