Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Market Street

Bike Advocates to Bring Huckleberry Bicycle Shop to Mid-Market Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 10, 2011 | 6 Comments

Venturing into the Mid-Market area this fall, Huckleberry Bicycles aspires to go well beyond selling bikes. As co-owners Brian Smith, Jonas Jackel, and Zack Stender launch the first full-service bike shop to open on Market Street, they aim to bridge more everyday riders with bicycle advocacy and provide a much-needed service along the busiest bicycling street west of the Mississippi. […]

SFMTA Directors Favor More Car Restrictions to Improve Market Street

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 7, 2011 | 16 Comments

The idea of getting more private automobiles off Market Street is gaining serious traction at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). Following the success of measures diverting cars off Market at 6th and 10th Streets, the SFMTA Board of Directors today showed a broad consensus favoring potential pilot projects that could further reduce the […]

Searching for Market Street’s True Identity

By Aaron Bialick | May 25, 2011 | 15 Comments

San Franciscans are dreaming big as Market Street’s transformation approaches in 2015, when the city’s most important street is scheduled to be redesigned and repaved. City planners are engaging with citizens to answer a century-old question: How can we make Market Street the glorious thoroughfare that it needs to be? Better Market Street, a collaborative project […]

SFMTA Crews Race to Green Market Street Bike Lanes for Bike to Work Day

By Aaron Bialick | May 4, 2011 | 9 Comments

SFMTA crews continue laying out the green carpet on Market Street in time to welcome the thousands of bike commuters expected on the 17th annual Bike to Work Day May 12. The improvements will help invite first-time riders to embrace the bicycle as their regular choice for commuting to work. Bike lanes were greened on the […]

Work Begins on Upper Market Street Bike Lane Improvements

By Aaron Bialick | May 3, 2011 | 9 Comments

Preparations for improvements [pdf] to the Upper Market Street bike lanes are underway and when completed will mark a step towards safer passage for travelers by bike at three intersections along the city’s busiest bike corridor, where a vision for a protected bikeway was dropped nearly forty years ago. The extended bike lanes should provide […]

SFMTA Crews Begin Filling in Green Bikeway Gaps on Market Street

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 28, 2011 | 12 Comments

SFMTA crews were spotted installing more green coloring on the Market Street bike lanes today, and say they expect to complete the entire section between Octavia Boulevard and 8th Street in time for Bike to Work Day May 12. A dashed green treatment can now be found on the sections of bike lanes approaching Van […]

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