Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Market Street

SFMTA Crews Install Market Street’s First Green Bike Boxes

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 29, 2011 | 11 Comments

Crews were out on Market Street today laying down the first bike boxes on both sides of the Ninth Street intersection. They come as the first of five promised by the SFMTA earlier this month. The boxes allow bike riders to get up front at a stop light, increasing visibility to motorists and allowing them […]

Market Street Right Turns Made Permanent by SFMTA Board

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 1, 2011 | 15 Comments

A trial project diverting private automobile traffic off Market Street will become permanent following a unanimous vote by the SFMTA Board of Directors today. The changes have made the the city’s main thoroughfare more inviting for people who walk, take transit and bike by requiring eastbound drivers on Market to turn right at 10th and […]

An Emerging New Bike Plan for San Francisco is a Bold Path Forward

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 19, 2010 | 170 Comments

After four years of an agonizing bicycle injunction that prevented the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) from adding any significant improvements to the city’s bike network, a judge earlier this year finally freed the SFMTA to begin building out the city’s long-promised Bicycle Plan. In short order, the SFMTA made some very noticeable improvements, […]

Historic Market Street Video Shot A Week Before 1906 Quake

By Matthew Roth | Oct 19, 2010 | 1 Comment

Most of our readers have probably already watched the amazing historic film of Market Street in the early 1900s, but you probably didn’t realize the video was shot in April, 1906, merely a week before the 1906 earthquake and fires destroyed most of the buildings that lined the street in the film. 60 Minutes aired […]

SFBC: Tell the Mayor to Finish the Bikeway on Lower Market Street

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 8, 2010 | 18 Comments

Without prodding from the Mayor’s Office, our sources tell us, it’s very possible the SFMTA wouldn’t have acted as quick to give bicyclists green, protected bike lanes on Market Street. It is the Mayor, after all, who has the ultimate authority over the SFMTA, appointing its board members, overseeing the agency’s budget behind the scenes […]

SFMTA Responds to Demands for Speeding Market Street Bike Improvements

By Bryan Goebel | Oct 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

In response to concerns that the SFMTA is taking too long to put in more green protected bike lanes and other innovations on Market Street, the agency’s Sustainable Streets Director, Bond Yee, in a letter to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, has outlined and provided a timeline for his agency’s planned improvements. Yee confirmed that […]

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