Bicycling
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Oakland Opens its First Concrete-Curb-Protected Bike Lane
Only when this kind of infrastructure become commonplace will the Bay Area achieve the mode share it desires.
May 9, 2017
Celebrating the Opening of Yerba Buena Island Vista Point to Bikes
It was a beautiful day to mark the Bay Bridge "People" Path's new seven-days-a-week open hours, and to ride a bike to the new Vista Point on Yerba Buena Island.
May 2, 2017
For Protected Bike Lanes, Protesters Put Their Bodies in the Street
A human chain lined the "protected" bike lane on Golden Gate Avenue. The idea was to keep motorists off the lane, of course. But the protest was also designed to highlight the watering down of the Turk Street and Golden Gate Avenue safety projects.
May 2, 2017
SPUR Talk: The State of Cycling in San Francisco
A San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association panel concludes: San Francisco has made strides in increasing bicycling mode share, but its bike infrastructure is still bad.
April 28, 2017
It’s Hard to Overstate the Health Benefits of Biking to Work
A massive new study of commuters in the United Kingdom reveals that people who bike to work tend to live longer and are at lower risk of heart disease and cancer. While the study establishes correlation but doesn't prove causation, the size of the sample and the magnitude of the effects strongly suggest that biking to work can yield major health benefits.
April 24, 2017
Ticket Diversion for Bike Riders 101
Different places have different approaches: an online course in Davis, a class taught by police officers in Gilroy. However they are run, bike classes benefit the entire community, and if diversion programs help create a wider educational program, so much the better.
April 12, 2017
Webinar Offered Wednesday: How to Set Up a Bicycle Traffic Diversion Program
A California bill passed in 2015 allows bicyclists who get tickets to attend "bike traffic school" and reduce their fines, but currently there are few places where that is possible. The California Bicycle Coalition will present a webinar on how to get a diversion program started.
April 10, 2017
Bike Coalition Says ‘No Way’ as S.F. Backs off Protected Bike Lanes
Painted-buffer lanes on Golden Gate Avenue failed miserably, so the SFMTA proposed them for Turk as well.
April 4, 2017
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?
A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
March 22, 2017
Busting the Myth of the “Scofflaw Cyclist”
According to a certain perspective that seems to hold sway among local newspaper columnists, bicyclists are reckless daredevils who flout the road rules that everyone else faithfully upholds. But the results of a massive survey published in the Journal of Transport and Land Use point to a different conclusion -- everyone breaks traffic laws, and there's nothing extraordinary about how people behave on bikes.
March 17, 2017
