Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

On Bike to Work Day, City Leaders Call on SF to Step Up Bikeway Expansion

By Aaron Bialick | May 10, 2012 | 11 Comments

City officials and advocates rode in to City Hall today alongside thousands of commuters for San Francisco’s 18th annual Bike to Work Day. According to the SFMTA, 1,031 eastbound bicycles traveled through the Market and Van Ness intersection between 8 and 9 a.m. this morning, making up 73 percent of vehicles on Market and averaging 17 […]

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Bike to Work Day Shifts Into High Gear Tomorrow

By Aaron Bialick | May 9, 2012 | 17 Comments

San Francisco’s streets are expected to fill with bike commuters tomorrow for the city’s 18th Bike to Work Day. The city has more bike lanes, more people on bikes, and more political momentum for bike policy today than in years past. “We definitely expect to see more people bicycling on Bike to Work Day this year […]

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Protected Bike Lanes, Ped Safety Top Priorities for Second Street Neighbors

By Aaron Bialick | May 4, 2012 | 15 Comments

Safe bike lanes and pedestrian crossings should be top priorities in the redesign of Second Street. That was the major sentiment at a community meeting on Wednesday, where city staffers rebooting the faltered Second Street Improvement Project asked attendees how they would re-envision the corridor. The residents who attended worked in small groups. Of the 12 […]

KTVU Reporter Documents Own Harassment of Cyclists

By Aaron Bialick | May 2, 2012 | 100 Comments

Last week, KTVU 2 reporter David Stevenson drove down Valencia Street, yelling at bicycle riders through the window of his motor vehicle, asking where their helmets were. He even brought a camera crew to film it — oddly enough, in the name of bicycle safety. “As twilight descends,” Stevenson told viewers, “the most vulnerable of […]

JFK Protected Bike Lanes Get Seal of Approval From the Bike-Savvy Dutch

By Aaron Bialick | May 1, 2012 | 24 Comments

This year’s celebration of the Dutch Queen’s Day in San Francisco was a bit special. When the event’s 100-or-so celebrants traversed the city by bike in the second annual “Market-to-Mill” ride (Market Street to the Dutch windmill in Golden Gate Park, a.k.a the Bay to Beach route), the orange-clad caravan traveled through San Francisco’s first bicycle […]

SFMTA Stripes Bike Lanes on Folsom Street Connecting SoMa and the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 30, 2012 | 20 Comments

The SFMTA striped new bike lanes on Folsom Street between 13th and 19th Streets last week, creating a safer and more direct connection for bike commuters between SoMa and the Mission. The bike lanes, which came along with a road diet and street re-paving, were called for in the Mission Streetscape Plan. They provide a continuous connection […]

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