Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Green Wave

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 […]

Valencia Signals Re-timed to Improve Traffic Flow and Safety

By Janel Sterbentz | Mar 2, 2009 | 10 Comments

As Streetsblog San Francisco reported last month, cities around the world have timed their traffic signals to favor slower moving modes, and now San Francisco has started a trial on one of the busiest bicycle routes in the city, Valencia Street. On Thursday February 19th, the MTA re-timed six traffic signals from 16th to 21st, […]

Accomodating Bike Speeds by Re-timing Signals on Valencia Street

By Janel Sterbentz | Jan 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

As the cyclists in this video point out, re-timing signals for bike speeds (Green Wave) would make roads safer for all street users on Valencia Street. Before even mentioning re-timing signals, this was many cyclists’ top request to improve their journey. Recently, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) found that during peak commute times […]

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,” […]