Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Eyes on the Street: Remove Car Parking, and Bike Lanes Vastly Improve

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 27, 2012 | 7 Comments

In most of San Francisco’s bike lanes, people are forced to ride between parked cars and moving cars. The looming threat of opening car doors and cars entering the bike lane is unsettling enough to keep many San Franciscans from riding a bike at all. But take the car parking out of the equation, and […]

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As SFMTA Adds Finishing Touches, JFK Bike Lanes Remain Awesome

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 25, 2012 | 36 Comments

Three months after San Francisco’s first parking-protected bike lanes were striped on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park, the street continues to thrive as a calmer, safer place all users. The flocks of people using the lanes this summer appear to include more families than ever, and by and large, drivers and pedestrians […]

How Long Did This Driver Park in a Bike Lane? A Case Study

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 17, 2012 | 56 Comments

Contrary to what the name implies, bike lanes in San Francisco have cars in them all the time. Presumably, a car left with blinking hazard lights on means the driver is just “running in for a minute,” as if to minimize the impact of endangering people on bicycles. Maybe, after biking into traffic around one […]

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8th St. Buffered Bike Lane a Step Up, But When Will SoMa Really Feel Safe?

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 13, 2012 | 24 Comments

A new buffered bike lane was striped on 8th Street last week, re-purposing a traffic lane for bicycles on one of SoMa’s fast, one-way motorways. The new configuration, which removes bicyclists from the door zone and provides a much wider lane, is an improvement over the four speed-inducing traffic lanes and skinny bike lane that […]

Eyes on the Street: Crews Begin Striping Bike Lanes on 8th and 17th Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 3, 2012 | 6 Comments

The SFMTA has begun striping work on new bike lanes along 8th Street in SoMa and 17th Street in the Mission and Potrero Hill. Eighth Street already had a skinny door-zone bike lane, but the SFMTA is expanding it as a buffered bike lane by re-purposing a roughly 10-foot wide motor vehicle lane for bicycles […]

SFMTA Stripes Bike Lane, Sharrows to Improve Holloway Bike Corridor

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

The SFMTA recently striped a partial bike lane and sharrows on a block of Lee Avenue connecting Ocean and Holloway Avenues in Ingleside. The improvements are a small piece of a plan to calm traffic and improve bicycling conditions on the Holloway corridor, which connects SF State University to City College Ocean Campus and the Balboa Park […]

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