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Eyes on the Street: Easier Bike Navigation at Market and Buchanan

By Aaron Bialick | May 5, 2014 | 11 Comments

Doing the Wiggle should be a little easier, thanks to new green-backed sharrows and plastic posts installed by the SFMTA last week. These help bike commuters navigate the entrance to the Duboce bikeway, at Market and Buchanan Streets. The sharrows are intended to establish a clearer path for bike traffic heading both to and from […]

Warriors Arena Moving to Mission Bay: A Win for Transit Accessibility?

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 23, 2014 | 37 Comments

The Warriors announced this week that the site for the basketball team’s proposed arena would be moved from Piers 30-32 on the Embarcadero to Mission Bay, quelling opposition from waterfront development foes. Whether or not the new site will work out for better or worse in terms of accessibility to regional transit, however, is still […]

SFMTA to Ban Cars on Kezar, Stanyan, Haight Street for 4/20 This Sunday

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 18, 2014 | 25 Comments

The SFMTA announced that cars will be banned on several major streets for the 4/20 gathering on the east end of Golden Gate Park this Sunday. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., cars will be banned on Kezar Drive, Stanyan Street between Frederick and Oak Streets, and Haight Street between Masonic Avenue and Stanyan. Drivers swarming the […]

Fifth Street Bike Lane Plans on Hold for Central Subway Construction

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 17, 2014 | 10 Comments

Plans for bike lanes on Fifth Street, which would connect Market Street to the Fourth and King Caltrain Station, are on hold at least until the Central Subway is completed in 2019. Originally, the 2009 SF Bike Plan called for conventional bike lanes on Fifth, painted between parked cars and moving cars. But during subway […]

Chevy: What Better Way to Explore the Divisadero “Microhood” Than by Car?

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 11, 2014 | 23 Comments

The marketers at Chevy totally have this urban millennial thing nailed down. The car manufacturer sponsored this promotional video for a Divisadero Microhood Art Walk held last week, along with the website The Bold Italic. In this virtual tour of the microhood, local business owner Erin Fong gets into one of Chevy’s electric Volts, driving an […]

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Bayshore Blvd Gets Buffered Bike Lanes, But “Alemany Maze” Still a Barrier

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 24, 2014 | 46 Comments

The SFMTA extended the buffered bike lanes on Bayshore Boulevard earlier this month from Silver Avenue south to Paul Avenue, reducing four traffic lanes to two. The street now provides a calmer, safer bicycling link for Bayview residents all the way up to where Bayshore ends, at Cesar Chavez Street and the “Hairball” freeway interchange. The […]

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