Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycling

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Are San Francisco Cyclists Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

By Roger Rudick | Sep 12, 2016 | 87 Comments

Justin Liszanckie was running an errand on the evening of July 20. “I was on Brannan and heading west, trying to turn south on Fourth towards the ballpark,” he said. And that’s the last thing he remembers until “waking up in the hospital hours later.” Liszanckie ended up in San Francisco General for ten days. His […]

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Push Continues in City Hall for Safer Bike Infrastructure

By Roger Rudick | Sep 9, 2016 | No Comments

Note the ‘call to action’ at the end of this post. Yesterday afternoon, some 30 officials, police officers, advocates, and other members of the public joined the regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at City Hall to discuss how to get protected bike lanes installed […]

Guest Editorial: Prop R Will Not Increase Bike Patrols, Despite Voter Guide Claims

By Jeremy Pollock | Sep 7, 2016 | 8 Comments

While we all know that writers of Voter Information Pamphlets sometimes stretch the facts, they shouldn’t be allowed to just make stuff up, right? There is a completely false statement in the “Rebuttal to the Opponent” ballot argument for Prop. R, the Neighborhood Crime Unit proposition–it says that Prop. R would “significantly increase the number of […]

South Bay Cities Build Region’s First Separated Bike Lanes

By Andrew Boone | Sep 1, 2016 | 8 Comments

New on-street bike lanes separated from auto traffic are nearing completion in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, and a handful of neighboring cities have plans to install them too. Separated bike infrastructure gained traction among local planners after Caltrans approved Class IV Separated Bikeway design standards [PDF] in December 2015. The first protected intersections were built […]

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SoMa to Get SF’s First Protected Intersection…in One Direction at Least

By Roger Rudick | Aug 29, 2016 | 60 Comments

SFMTA announced late last week that San Francisco will soon break ground on the first protected intersection in San Francisco. From the agency’s web article: A new type of safer intersection design for San Francisco breaks ground this week: The city’s first “protected intersection” treatment is coming to 9th and Division streets. Protected intersections use a […]

Homeless on the Hairball Follow Up

By Roger Rudick | Aug 26, 2016 | 2 Comments

On Tuesday, Streetsblog followed up on a report from Dan Crosby, a bike commuter who rides the hairball, about how the westbound bike bridge had become almost completely obstructed by the homeless. Streetsblog reached out to several agencies and the mayor about it. And a day later the encampment that was blocking the bike lane, […]

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