Traffic Signal Placement: Are we Doing it Wrong?
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Nobody likes waiting at a red light. So motorists have this ugly habit of inching into the crosswalk. But there's a very simple way to correct for it.
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling
Bike-Share Plans Irk Oakland Disabilities Commissioners
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Members of Oakland's "Mayor's Commission on Persons with Disabilities" (MCPD) are miffed at Motivate and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) for planning Bay Area Bike Share without including bikes for disabled users.
Hope for the Hairball?
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Some 20 bicycle advocates and city officials met up on Saturday morning to share ideas for fixing the eastbound bike lanes of the Hairball, San Francisco's notorious maze of freeway ramps, bike lanes, and homeless camps where Cesar Chavez crosses under US-101.
Lower Haight, Page Street Open House
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Representatives from San Francisco’s Planning Department, the Municipal Transportation Agency, and Public Works were on hand last night at John Muir Elementary School to hear more public comment on the Lower Haight Public Realm Plan, a project that promises, among other things, better bike and pedestrian amenities for the neighborhood. From the Planning Department’s website about the […]
SPUR Talk: Bike-Share and the Transportation Revolution
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Last night, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) and Young Professionals in Transportation hosted a talk and discussion about bike-share and the transportation changes taking place in our cities. The event, which was held at SPUR’s Oakland location, featured Jay Walder, the CEO of Motivate. One of many items that stood out: […]
Punched for Riding a Bike
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Last Wednesday, March 8, at 9:15 am, Mary Ann Blackwell was riding her bike down Martin Luther King in Oakland, on her way to the MacArthur BART station, to get to an appointment in San Francisco. She turned left onto 40th, to reach the station entrance. The long-time cycling advocate saw something familiar to cyclists […]