Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

San Francisco May Get Its First Green Bike Lane on Fell Street

By Bryan Goebel | Mar 19, 2010 | 125 Comments

Image: SFMTA San Francisco would get its first green bike lane under a new MTA proposal (PDF) to fix the troubled intersection of Divisadero and Fell streets near the entrance to the Arco station, where drivers queuing up to get gas obstruct the bike lane and block the sidewalk, creating hazardous conditions for people who […]

Streetscast: Google Engineer Scott Shawcroft Explains Google’s Bike Map

By Matthew Roth and Bryan Goebel | Mar 10, 2010 | 12 Comments

The wait for bicycle directions on Google Maps has finally ended as the company announced a beta version of its new bicycle directions feature at the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. this morning. The new mapping software includes an elegant overlay of bicycle routes based on priority bicycle streets and […]

Eyes on the Street: Market Street Bike Lane Puts the Squeeze on Cyclists

By Joshua Hart | Feb 24, 2010 | 27 Comments

The bike lane on Market at 10th St. was already narrow before the installation of safe-hit posts. Photos by Josh Hart. Cyclists traveling inbound on Market Street are being squeezed into an unnecessarily narrow bike lane as a result of safe-hit posts installed to enforce the new required right turn at 10th Street. The posts, […]

Delhi Turns to Bike Lanes to Tame World’s Most Dangerous Traffic

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2010 | 2 Comments

Space is at a premium on Delhi’s streets. Photo: DaveBleasdale/Flickr Delhi, home to over 12 million people and the seat of India’s national government, is widely considered to have the most dangerous traffic in the world. As the Guardian wrote recently, traffic safety in Delhi basically consists of "good horns, good brakes, good luck." Nationally, […]

Eyes on the Street: A New Sidewalk Emerges on Valencia Street

By Michael Rhodes | Jan 6, 2010 | 7 Comments

On the west side of Valencia between 16th and 17th Streets, a widened but unfinished sidewalk is now open to pedestrians. The original sidewalk and the blacktop will be replaced with shiny new tiles. Photo: Michael Rhodes Business owners on one block of Valencia Street can see the light at the end of the tunnel […]

Eyes on the Street: Work on Clipper Street Bike Lane Starts

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 18, 2009 | 4 Comments

Photos by Streetsblog tipster Nick DPT crews have begun striping a new bike lane on Clipper Street between Douglass Street and Portola Drive. Streetsblog tipster Nick sent us these photos of the work, which is expected to take a week to complete, according to Damon Curtis of the MTA’s bike program. Nick points out that […]

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