Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Hopenhagen or Carbonhagen, We’ll Still be Cycling Regardless

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 17, 2009 | 9 Comments

Cycling chic in Copenhagen, and this is a cold day in December! I caught Mikael Colville-Andersen’s inspiring talk on urban cycling from the Copenhagen context at San Francisco’s SPUR on the last Friday of October. I suggested we could do an interview when I came to Copenhagen in December and he graciously agreed, stepping outside […]

SF Gets First Protected Bike Lane! Drivers Already Violating It

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 3, 2009 | 170 Comments

A bicyclist rides in SF’s first protected bike lane. Photos by Bryan Goebel. DPT crews installed San Francisco’s first physically separated bike lane this morning on a westbound stretch of an existing bike lane on Market Street between 9th and 10th, and before workers had even finished putting in the final safe-hit post, some drivers […]

Paint-Happy MTA Crews Prepare for Physically Separated Market St Lane

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 2, 2009 | 12 Comments

A freshly installed Mississippi Street bike lane, made of thermoplastic, which dries in 30 seconds. The installation was a little tricky because of the rough street terrain but the kick ass DPT crew got it perfectly straight. Photos by Bryan Goebel. Though it might sound incredible to San Franciscans who have followed bicycle issues for […]

Eyes On the Street: SF Gets Its First New Bike Lane in Three Years

By Bryan Goebel | Dec 1, 2009 | 26 Comments

The SFBC’s Andy Thornley was the first to ride in the new Scott Street bike lane. Flickr photo: sfbike San Francisco bicycle riders this morning let out a loud cheer, popped open a bottle of champagne and toasted the city’s first bike lane in three years: a freshly painted sliver of Scott Street on the […]

SF Plans to Act Quickly on Bike Projects When Injunction is Lifted

By Matthew Roth | Oct 29, 2009 | 2 Comments

The SFMTA is already surveying locations where bike racks have been requested and plans to add 750 racks as soon as the injunction is lifted. Photo: Dave Snyder. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and MTA Chief Nat Ford have made repeated promises that they will act swiftly to build out large segments of the city’s […]

Streetfilms: NYC Bike Lanes 101

By Elizabeth Press | Oct 20, 2009 | 4 Comments

In some cities people are so desperate for bike lanes they’ll mark their own. Elizabeth Press of Streetfilms in New York City, on the other hand, had this to say about the work the NYC Department of Transportation has been doing in her city: "It feels like every time I get on my bike there […]

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