Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

Bikes Belong on Main Streets Because Bikes Are Not Mainly for Commuting

By Michael Andersen | Nov 2, 2016 | 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. Trivia question 1: Of all the trips taken by U.S. adults, how many lead to or from somewhere other than work? The answer is 78 percent. Trivia question 2: Of all the […]

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A Note of Caution on Tech and Privatizing Transit

By Roger Rudick | Oct 31, 2016 | 133 Comments

At a recent SPUR meeting, an audience member asked why cities continue to invest billions in long-term projects, such as the Central Subway, when ride-hail services such as Juno, Lyft, and Uber Pool have rendered urban rail more or less obsolete. This sentiment is reflected in a recent piece in the Atlantic by former Los […]

SFMTA Super Speedy at Removing Safety Measures on Valencia

By Roger Rudick | Oct 28, 2016 | 118 Comments

On Monday, Streetsblog joined the SFMTrA, a guerrilla-safety group that glues down safe-hit posts in trouble spots throughout the city, for a pre-dawn installion on Valencia between 17th and 14th. This afternoon, the posts were gone–and everything was back to its dangerous and dysfunctional normal.

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Fixing the Mess at Geneva-San Jose/Balboa Park

By Roger Rudick | Oct 27, 2016 | 6 Comments

Last night, SFMTA held an open house at Lick Wilmerding High School to get community suggestions on what to do about the mess of tracks, ramps, road and pedestrian crossings on and around the intersection of Geneva and San Jose, adjacent to the Balboa Park BART and Muni stations. From SFMTA’s project page: The SFMTA […]

Safe Streets Advocates Urge ‘Yes’ Vote on Props J & K

By Brian Wiedenmeier, Nicole Ferrara and Tom Radulovich | Oct 26, 2016 | 12 Comments

Amid an avalanche of issues on the November ballot, San Francisco voters face one question with consequences for each of us every single day: Should our city invest in safe, affordable transportation? To answer yes, we must pass both Propositions J & K. At a time when so many people feel pressed by the soaring […]

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Safety Guerrillas Hit Valencia Street

By Roger Rudick | Oct 24, 2016 | 85 Comments

Streetsblog was up before dawn this morning, an invited guest of SFMTrA–the guerrilla group that’s given up waiting for the city to make our streets safer–for a quick infrastructure upgrade to Valencia Street’s bike lanes. This time three members of the group, who go by the handles Copenhagen, Dragon (who came with a furry dragon […]

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