Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Fearmongering Overwhelms Facts at Meeting About Livable Polk Street

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 19, 2013 | 103 Comments

A mob mentality ruled at a neighborhood meeting last night on safety improvements for Polk Street, where attendees booed any suggestion that removing car parking to make room for pedestrian and bicycle amenities might be worthwhile. Fact-based discussion was in short supply at the Middle Polk Neighborhood Association meeting. Instead, hyperbole and misinformation were the […]

Safer Polk Street Supporters Rally for Neighborhood Meeting Monday

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 14, 2013 | 44 Comments

With flyers stuck on storefront windows along Polk Street spreading misinformation about the SF Municipal Transportation Agency’s developing plans to make the street a safer, more inviting place to walk and bike, local supporters of the project are rallying neighbors and merchants to attend a public meeting on Monday. There, city officials including SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin […]

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Bikeway on Mission Street Would Cost More Than One on Market

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 27, 2013 | 38 Comments

Constructing raised, protected bike lanes on downtown Mission Street would cost more than building them on Market, according to SF Municipal Transportation Agency Director Ed Reiskin. The Mission bikeway proposal, which recently surfaced as an option to be studied in the repeatedly-delayed Better Market Street project, would entail abandoning long-sought bike safety improvements on Market, which is […]

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How American Cities Are Making the Transition to Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 8, 2013 | 15 Comments

Of all her trips pedaling around during her San Francisco visit, one of Martha Roskowski’s most harrowing was the stretch between the SFMTA building at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue to a venue at Folsom and Second Streets, where she was slated to speak about making cities more bike-friendly. “It was my little moment […]

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SFMTA’s Bicycle Strategy Could Make SF Top in the Nation — If It’s Funded

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 30, 2013 | 5 Comments

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency has mapped out a course that could make San Francisco the most bike-friendly city in the nation. All it needs now, it seems, is the political leadership to step up and fund what SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin has called the “most cost-effective investment we can make in moving people.” The SFMTA’s Draft […]

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Great Highway Re-Paving to Come With Minor Bike-Ped Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2013 | 17 Comments

The Great Highway, the motorway that divides Ocean Beach from the Outer Sunset and Richmond, is set to get some bike lane and pedestrian improvements north of Lincoln Way as part of a nine-month re-paving project started this week by the Department of Public Works. The 6-foot painted bike lanes planned between Lincoln and Cabrillo Street would […]

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