Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

In Ideal Weather, SFMTA Crews Install Bike Boxes on Market and Van Ness

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 30, 2011 | 10 Comments

Working in 80 degree weather, smiling SFMTA crews installed two green bike boxes in both directions of Market Street at Van Ness Avenue today, the latest pieces of innovative infrastructure to grace the city’s main thoroughfare, which continues to become a much friendlier street for people who bike, walk and take transit. In addition to […]

Peru’s Traffic Menagerie

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

Our daily urban lives shape our imaginations in so many ways. Few things box us in like our everyday transit options, and the patterns of traffic that shape our sense of public space. These patterns themselves are historical of course. A quick look back at the famous Market Street film shot a few days before […]

Ecology of Biking in Quito, Ecuador

By Chris Carlsson | Mar 7, 2011 | 6 Comments

I just spent a few days in Quito, Ecuador, a remarkably beautiful city of a couple million sprawling 40 kilometers north-to-south through a series of valleys and plateaus in the Andes, surrounded by snow-capped volcanoes and rugged green mountains. I interviewed Heleana Zambonino from Quito for Streetsblog a while back, and wanted to see for […]

Mayor Lee Calls on SFMTA to Move Quickly on Fell Street Protected Bikeway

By Bryan Goebel and Michael Helquist | Feb 25, 2011 | 40 Comments

Mayor Ed Lee’s comments to Streetsblog earlier this week that he would like to “quickly” see a physically-separated bike lane trial on Fell Street along The Wiggle came as exciting news to bicycle advocates who are proposing a continuous green stretch along the curb from Scott to Stanyan Streets. “I want to get to that […]

Laguna Honda Separated Bikeway, Raised Crosswalk Installed on West Side

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 14, 2011 | 30 Comments

The SFMTA installed separation improvements on the Laguna Honda Boulevard bike lanes and added a raised pedestrian crossing on St. Francis Circle last week, tacking on a pair of safety features for vulnerable street users in two western neighborhoods of San Francisco that are notorious for high volume, high-speed car traffic. The bike lanes on Laguna […]

Eyes on the Street: SFMTA Crews Begin Striping 17th Street Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 11, 2011 | 62 Comments

Bicyclists have begun taking advantage of the new bike lanes being installed this week along the western section of the 17th Street corridor, with many riders saying they began feeling a greater sense of safety just as soon as the first stripes were laid down by Wednesday from Valencia to Church Streets. In interviews with Streetsblog, […]

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