Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

The Sorry State of Double-Parking Enforcement on SF Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 2, 2013 | 59 Comments

There’s no question: Double-parking in San Francisco is rampant, and it routinely causes danger for people on bicycles and delays for Muni riders. Just a day after Supervisor Scott Wiener held a hearing on the issue at City Hall at the beginning of the week, a Muni bus driver and car driver collided on Mission at […]

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SFMTA to Widen Bike Lane, Remove Traffic Lane on Folsom in SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 1, 2013 | 31 Comments

The SFMTA will re-purpose a general traffic lane to widen and buffer the existing bike lane on Folsom Street between Fourth and 11th Streets by the end of the year, the agency announced today. The pilot project, which comes about six weeks after 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac was killed on her bike by a truck […]

Eyes on the Street: Bike Lanes on Cesar Chavez, Green Wave on 11th

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 30, 2013 | 33 Comments

Two bicycling upgrades were spotted in the eastern neighborhoods this past week: Preliminary striping for bike lanes on western Cesar Chavez Street and a “green wave” on 11th Street in west SoMa. The unprotected bike lanes being installed on Cesar Chavez are part of the ongoing rehab on the section west of Hampshire Street. A photo […]

Protected Bike Lanes, Dual Bus Lanes Still Left Out of Potrero Ave. Plan

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 25, 2013 | 100 Comments

The latest proposals for a redesign of Potrero Avenue include no protected bike lanes and only one transit lane, while the removal of any of the street’s four lanes devoted primarily to private car traffic remains off the table. Planners from the SFMTA and the Department of Public Works presented two design options at an […]

SFMTA Still Fleshing Out Details of Pilot Bike Lane Upgrades on Folsom

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 10, 2013 | 11 Comments

The SFMTA isn’t quite ready to declare that it will expedite protected bike lanes on Folsom Street with a pilot project, but planners say they’re fleshing out the details of what near-term safety upgrades on the street could look like. Although the SF Bicycle Coalition wrote in a blog post Friday that city officials promised them […]

Caltrans Installs Small Road Diet on Outer San Jose Where Man Was Killed

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 9, 2013 | 2 Comments

Caltrans has converted two general traffic lanes to bike lanes and a center turn lane on a deadly stretch of San Jose Avenue just south of highway 280, where 69-year-old Hector Arana was killed by a driver while crossing the street in March. Instead of six speed-inducing through lanes, the five-block stretch of San Jose […]

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