Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

Yielding to Cars-First Merchants, SFMTA Board Approves Polk Plan As Is

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 4, 2015 | 92 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors voted unanimously yesterday to approve the watered-down plan to redesign Polk Street with a protected bike lane along one side of the street for 10 of 20 blocks. The board rebuffed efforts by member Cheryl Brinkman to preserve the possibility of adding protected bike lanes along the upper half of the corridor […]

SFMTA Board Approves Watered-Down Polk Plan, May Revisit It Later

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 3, 2015 | 56 Comments

The SFMTA Board of Directors voted today to approve the plan to redesign Polk Street with a protected bike lane along one side of the street for 10 of 20 blocks. After a four-hour hearing, the board approved the plan with the condition that SFMTA staff would report on the impacts of the project a […]

SFMTA Cuts Block of Polk Bike Lane Fought By Visionless Mayor’s Optometrist

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 26, 2015 | 136 Comments

The SFMTA has nixed a block of protected bike lane planned on Polk Street, where merchants including Mayor Ed Lee’s optometrist have vocally opposed it to preserve car parking. The raised, protected bike lane between California and Pine Streets was removed from Polk’s plans six months after they were presented at the final public open house. […]

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Eyes on the Street: Construction Begins on Fell and Oak Bike Lane Protection

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 20, 2015 | 10 Comments

Crews are at work building the planted concrete islands that will separate the Fell and Oak bike lanes from motor traffic. As we reported earlier this month, the long-delayed project is now supposed to wrap by April. The new construction is a sign that city agencies may make good on that. This week crews carved […]

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Market Street Has More Bike Traffic Than You Thought

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 18, 2015 | 6 Comments

The Market Street bicycle counter has been undercounting two-wheeled traffic — and not because of a computer glitch. Starting last month, the counter reported a huge jump in bike commuters. How come? All indications point to a recent tweak to the bike lane that guides more riders over the counter’s underground sensor. On several days […]

New Bike Lanes in Sunnyvale Could Be Just the Beginning for El Camino Real

By Andrew Boone | Feb 18, 2015 | 12 Comments

To build a bike network, you’ve gotta start somewhere, and on El Camino Real, it started in Sunnyvale last month. The first bike lanes on El Camino Real are six feet wide, striped along the curb with no protection from traffic, running half a mile from Sunnyvale Avenue to Fair Oaks Avenue/Remington Drive, near the city’s […]

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