What Happened to West Portal’s Lonely Little Bike Lockers?
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Four BikeLink electronic bike lockers used to live in the back corner of the Ulloa Street parking lot, 140 paces from Muni's West Portal Station. But now they're gone.
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling
Bikes for the Poor, Bikes on Trains, Biking to Google: Golden Wheel Winners Tell their Stories
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Like taking your bike on BART and Caltrain? Thank Shirley Johnson, the BIKES ONBoard group she helped form, and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, which helped support her work. How her group helped get more space for bikes on Caltrain and lifted the arcane bike restrictions on BART was just one of three advocacy success […]
San Mateo Bike Share Update: City Readies to Double Fleet to 100 Bikes
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The City of San Mateo will double its Bay Bikes bike share fleet to 100 bikes by October.
Dutch Transportation and Planning Official Reflects on SF Infrastructure
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As Streetsblog readers are surely aware, when it comes to public transit, pedestrian safety, and above all good bicycle infrastructure, the Dutch are the global champions.
Bike Coalition Preps for Next Round of SoMa Fight
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There are now four design options for a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)'s project to add parking-protected bike lanes, possible transit lanes, and wider sidewalks on Howard and Folsom Streets in SoMa. All four of these designs are pretty darned good. All four have pretty good protected bike lanes.
Guest Editorial: Sorry Dick, but Bicycles are Part of Marin’s Transportation Solution
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Dick Spotswood of the Marin Independent Journal was correct when he recently stated that adding highway lanes won’t fix our traffic problems. A common adage in transportation circles compares building more lanes to doctors counseling obese patients to simply loosen their belts. However, Spotswood was wrong when he glibly asserted that bikes are of little […]