Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Presidio Trust Experiments With Green Bike Lanes

By Bryan Goebel | Feb 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

The dashed treatment allows engineers to alternate different types of materials but Marshall said the green lanes would be solid where there are solid lines. San Francisco’s bike injunction has prevented the MTA from testing colored bike lanes on city streets but it’s not stopping the Presidio Trust from doing its own experiment. "Although the […]

Unclogging the Cesar Chavez Traffic Sewer

By Matthew Roth | Feb 4, 2009 | 42 Comments

A 14′ median with trees will be added to Cesar Chavez when the bicycle injunction is lifted One of the many casualties of the bicycle injunction has been the community led plan for reconstruction of Cesar Chavez Street between Guerrero and the 101. Over the past five years, community groups led by CC Puede, the […]

The Impending Failure of San Francisco’s Pilot Bike Share Program

By Matthew Roth | Jan 29, 2009 | 30 Comments

Which will San Francisco’s bike-share program resemble? Lest it appear that Streetsblog doesn’t support bike-sharing in San Francisco, I should say from the outset that I love the successful bike-sharing programs that I’ve used, believe they are one of the more innovative new transit models available, and know that San Francisco is ripe for the […]

Paradise LOSt (Part II): Turning Automobility on Its Head

By Matthew Roth | Jan 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

One of the unintended consequences of San Francisco’s bicycle injunction, which Rob Anderson and fellow NIMBYs will likely rue for some time to come, is the arduous thought and labor that advocates and professional planners have invested in doing away with LOS all together. Two arguments in the debate over LOS have emerged. One […]

Market/Octavia Debate: Safety by Numbers or Safety in Numbers?

By Matthew Roth | Jan 23, 2009 | 6 Comments

A blue bike lane in Copenhagen. Though Superior Court Judge Peter J. Busch ruled the MTA will not get an immediate exemption to the bike injunction to remove the eastbound segment of the bike lane at Market and Octavia because he didn’t think an “adequate case has been made that there’s a public safety crisis,” […]

Market/Octavia Bike Lane Will Stay for Now

By Bryan Goebel | Jan 22, 2009 | 18 Comments

In a ruling cheered by bicycle advocates, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter J. Busch today rejected the MTA’s request to modify the bike injunction to allow the removal of the eastbound Market Street bike lane and concrete island at Octavia Boulevard, the city’s most dangerous intersection for bicyclists. "The question that confronts me in […]

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