Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Market Street

Tomorrow: Support a Safer Upper Market With Protected Bike Lanes

By Aaron Bialick | May 4, 2015 | 30 Comments

The SFMTA will hold an open house tomorrow on bike and pedestrian safety upgrades along upper Market Street, which could include bulb-outs to calm the street’s wide, dangerous intersections and protected bike lanes on some segments. The SFMTA’s proposal hasn’t been presented yet, but safe streets advocates say they worry the bike improvements may not be as […]

Market Street Bike Count Off to a Record-Breaking Start in 2015

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 1, 2015 | 25 Comments

The Market Street bike counter tallied 97,302 people rolling by in March — the highest monthly total yet. Last year, the monthly count rose steadily until October, so bike ridership on Market is expected to keep breaking records. April could be the first month to break the 100,000 threshold. Throughout March, typical weekday ridership ranged between 3,200 […]

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SFMTA to Install Three More Digital Bicycle Counters

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 24, 2015 | 15 Comments

The SFMTA plans to install three more bicycle counters with digital displays on busy biking streets. They will be placed “at visible locations on high volume bicycle corridors,” though the exact spots haven’t been finalized, according to a city planning document. “Potential locations include Market Street, Valencia Street, and the Embarcadero.” The SFMTA has already […]

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Police Ticket Cyclists Who Fail to Navigate Market and Octavia’s Bad Design

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2015 | 51 Comments

Police were seen ticketing people on bikes navigating a poorly-designed junction at the dangerous Market Street and Octavia Boulevard intersection yesterday in the latest “People Behaving Badly” segment from KRON 4’s Stanley Roberts. The bike lane’s design is so flawed, in fact, that the only bike commuter Roberts showed navigating it properly happened to be one of the […]

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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 […]

Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Safety Tweaks on Upper Market, Valencia

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 16, 2015 | 8 Comments

The SFMTA recently made some upgrades to bike lanes and pedestrian crossings around Valencia Street and Market Street. Near Octavia Boulevard, the Market bike lanes were widened and painted green, and a buffer zone was added, making it a bit more comfortable for commuters pedaling up the hill from lower to upper Market towards the […]

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