Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lane Becomes Golf Fan Parking at Lake Merced

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 4, 2013 | 12 Comments

A buffered, post-separated bike lane on John Muir Drive along Lake Merced was commandeered for car parking this weekend for attendees of a golf tournament. Staff from the “Champion’s Tour” Charles Schwab Cup Championship were directing drivers to treat the bike lane as an angled parking lane. Attendees and passersby using the bike lane for its […]

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SFMTA: Fell and Oak Bike Lanes Are Yielding Promising Safety Results

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 30, 2013 | 27 Comments

The SFMTA has released some preliminary survey results showing that the three-block bike lanes on Fell and Oak Streets, along with other safety measures, have resulted in calmer motor traffic, an increased sense of safety among bicycle commuters, and a decrease in illegal bicycling behaviors. On Fell and Oak, between Scott and Baker Streets — the connection from the […]

SFMTA Shops Folsom Buffered Bike Lane at Crowded Community Meeting

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 24, 2013 | 5 Comments

The SFMTA’s proposal to widen the Folsom Street bike lane with a buffer zone and remove a general traffic lane drew significant turnout at a community meeting in SoMa yesterday evening. The project, set to be installed by the end of the year, seems to have strong support from residents and livable streets advocates as […]

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Eyes on the Street: New Bike Lanes, Road Diet on Folsom in the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 15, 2013 | 19 Comments

The Mission’s stretch of Folsom Street, between 19th and 24th Streets, just got safer with bike lanes and a road diet striped along with a road-repaving. Formerly two general traffic lanes in each direction, the street now consists of one bike lane and one general lane on each side, resulting in a calmer environment and […]

Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 8, 2013 | 93 Comments

When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]

The Sloppy Reporting Behind KTVU’s Eulogy for Re-Purposed Parking Spaces

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 4, 2013 | 10 Comments

Perhaps we shouldn’t expect much from KTVU these days in the way of fact-checking — Bay Area viewers should be used to the exceptional sloppiness seen in reports like the attempted hit on bike-share, the self-documented harassment of bicycle riders who don’t wear helmets, and, of course, the infamous fake names of pilots involved in […]

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