Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Folsom Street Road Diet Includes Bike Lanes, Bus Bulbs in the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 8, 2011 | 65 Comments

A redesign of Folsom Street in the Mission District aimed at calming motor traffic and improving conditions for walking and bicycling is one step closer to becoming a reality. A proposal to add bike lanes and bus bulbs is now on its way to the SFMTA Board of Directors. The street “was identiﬁed through the Eastern Neighborhoods process […]

Cesar Chavez Street Redesign Approved by SFMTA Board

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 1, 2011 | 49 Comments

A long-awaited blueprint to significantly improve safety and livability conditions on Cesar Chavez Street was approved by SFMTA Board today, culminating nearly a decade of community input and planning. “This is the final step for approval of this really great project,” said Marc Caswell, program director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. “This project has […]

Don’t Look Now But Fresno is Sprouting Bike Lanes

By Matthew Ridgway | Dec 1, 2010 | 12 Comments

Editor’s note: Matthew Ridgway is a principal at Fehr and Peers, a transportation design and engineering firm that routinely consults on bicycle and pedestrian projects throughout California. His firm was hired to help develop Fresno’s Bicycle Master Plan. Bryan Jones, the city of Fresno’s traffic engineer, contributed to this report. A collective sigh of relief […]

An Emerging New Bike Plan for San Francisco is a Bold Path Forward

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 19, 2010 | 170 Comments

After four years of an agonizing bicycle injunction that prevented the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from adding any significant improvements to the city’s bike network, a judge earlier this year finally freed the SFMTA to begin building out the city’s long-promised Bicycle Plan. In short order, the SFMTA made some very noticeable improvements, […]

Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area

By Leah Shahum | Jun 23, 2010 | 22 Comments

Bicyclists — and blue bike lanes and physically separated bikeways — abound in Copenhagen, where biking makes up 37 percent of the trips to work and school. Photos by Leah Shahum Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San […]

An Unfinished Freeway Revolt: Car-Free Vancouver Day

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 22, 2010 | 10 Comments

Banner at Car-Free Vancouver Day The organization fighting the massive freeway plan in Vancouver I’m just back from a fantastic five-day visit to Vancouver to help celebrate and publicly ponder Car-Free Vancouver Day. The event started six years ago along East Vancouver’s Commercial Drive (“the Drive” as it is often called there). It has grown […]

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