Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Boxes

MTA Crews Will Begin Painting New Bike Lanes Tomorrow

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

This bike box on Scott Street will be painted green in a six-month trial. Photo by Bryan Goebel. San Francisco is about to get its first new bike lane in more than three years along with a colored bike box! Progress has been long stalled by the injunction but the fact that the MTA is […]

Eyes on the Street: Scott Street Bike Box Reappears

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 24, 2009 | 9 Comments

A freshly painted bike box on Scott Street. Photo by Bryan Goebel. One day after we asked when the bike box on Scott Street at Oak would reappear, lo and behold, it’s back. It was apparently repainted sometime this morning. Tipster and Streetsblog commenter MichaelSF points out it appears longer. It’s almost a full bike […]

Eyes on the Street: When Will the Bike Box Reappear on Scott Street?

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

A bicyclist waits in what remains of the bike box at Scott/Oak. Photos by Bryan Goebel. If you’ve pedaled through The Wiggle in the last few weeks — as thousands of bicyclists do on a daily basis — you’ve probably noticed the disappearance of what was a rare San Francisco bike box on Scott Street […]

News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

The trial plaza at Madison Square When we wrote about the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Market Street that DPW expects to start this May, the story generated numerous doubts about how the city would create a successful public space out of a busy street abutting a gas station. As commenter Josh said, […]

The Impending Failure of San Francisco’s Pilot Bike Share Program

By Matthew Roth | Jan 29, 2009 | 30 Comments

Which will San Francisco’s bike-share program resemble? Lest it appear that Streetsblog doesn’t support bike-sharing in San Francisco, I should say from the outset that I love the successful bike-sharing programs that I’ve used, believe they are one of the more innovative new transit models available, and know that San Francisco is ripe for the […]

Market/Octavia Debate: Safety by Numbers or Safety in Numbers?

By Matthew Roth | Jan 23, 2009 | 6 Comments

A blue bike lane in Copenhagen. Though Superior Court Judge Peter J. Busch ruled the MTA will not get an immediate exemption to the bike injunction to remove the eastbound segment of the bike lane at Market and Octavia because he didn’t think an “adequate case has been made that there’s a public safety crisis,” […]