Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Road Diet, Buffered Bike Lane Finally Coming to Northbound Bernal Cut

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

A road diet and buffered bike lane are finally coming to San Jose Avenue north of 280, a.k.a. the Bernal Cut, where neighbors have fought for traffic calming for years. The SFMTA and Caltrans are moving forward with a two-phased pilot project — first, in March, the SFMTA will reallocate one of San Jose’s three […]

Gov’s Report to Caltrans: Get Out of the Way of Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2014 | 6 Comments

Caltrans needs to stop focusing so much on moving cars and let cities build safer street designs with protected bike lanes, says a new report commissioned by Governor Jerry Brown and CA Transportation Secretary Brian Kelly. The report [PDF] calls out Caltrans’ “archaic” practices when it comes to imposing outdated, automobile-centric design standards on city streets in California, and says […]

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Long-Delayed Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane Jumpstarted by DPW

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 31, 2014 | 31 Comments

In a surprising development, the Department of Public Works broke ground today on a contra-flow, protected bike lane on the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, from Market to Grove Streets (at City Hall), which are currently one-way southbound. By Bike to Work Day, two of the city’s busiest bicycling streets are expected to be […]

Cesar Chavez: A Traffic Sewer Transformed Into a Safer Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 29, 2014 | 13 Comments

Western Cesar Chavez Street has been transformed after decades as a dangerous motor vehicle speedway that divided the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. City officials cut the ribbon today on a redesign of the street, nearly nine years after residents began pushing for safety improvements. Cesar Chavez was widened in the 1930s and 40s at […]

Survey Shows Polk Neighbors Want Safer Streets First, Not Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2014 | 27 Comments

Updated 6:09 p.m. with comment from MPNA. Polk Street’s dangerous conditions for people walking and biking are, by far, the biggest concern for people who live, work, and shop there — far more important than any lack of car parking, according to a new neighborhood survey. The survey [DOCX] was conducted by the Mayor’s Office of […]

Who’s Parking in the Fell Street Bike Lane Today? Oh, It’s SFPD

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 23, 2014 | 18 Comments

You’d better have a pretty good reason to park a car in the heavily-used Fell Street bike lane during the evening rush hour, forcing commuters to squeeze by alongside three lanes of motor traffic. Police response to an emergency might qualify, but the two SFPD officers who returned to this cruiser from the adjacent Bank […]

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