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Why the SFMTA Doesn’t Install Short-Term Residential Bike Parking

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 16, 2011 | 24 Comments

Earlier this year, I hired one of my favorite bike courier companies to deliver an urgent parcel. When the messenger arrived at my door to pick it up (I work from home), he complained about the lack of bike parking in the neighborhood. He knew who I was and asked, bluntly: “Why doesn’t Streetsblog have […]

The Tenderloin Finally Gets a Taste of Car-Free Sunday Streets

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

Mary San George was sitting outside her neighborhood flower store yesterday, facing the historic residential high-rise building on O’Farrell Street where she has lived for 27 years, and marveling at something she very rarely gets to experience in her Tenderloin neighborhood: a street full of people instead of cars. “People use this street like a […]

A Year After Bike Injunction Lifting, SF Blazes Ahead With Improvements

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 11, 2011 | 47 Comments

It was one year ago last Thursday that a San Francisco judge freed the city from its four-year-old bicycle injunction, and allowed the SFMTA to finally begin building out the long stalled Bike Plan. Since the chains were unlocked, the number of bicyclists on the streets has dramatically risen, thanks in no small part to […]

SFBC Member Meeting: Strategic Planning

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2011 | No Comments

From SFBC: The SF Bicycle Coalition’s priorities are guided by our Strategic Plan, an important road map for how we work successfully to promote bicycling for everyday transportation. As we wind down on our current five year plan we are thinking about how to set ambitious, achievable goals for the next five years. Current members are invited […]

SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 31, 2011 | No Comments

Agenda

Streets Bond Measure Headed to November Ballot

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 29, 2011 | 10 Comments

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of occasional stories on the “2011 Road Repaving and Street Safety Bond.” A $248 million streets bond measure being pushed by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other electeds is on its way to the November ballot after being approved this week in a 9-2 vote […]

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