Bicycling
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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
The Motherland of Soul Is Getting an All-Ages Biking Network
Even as South Memphis has left deep marks on U.S. culture, its neighborhoods themselves have suffered. Now the city is working through many channels to reverse that -- one of which is putting the district at the front of the queue to get one of the country's first connected networks of all-ages bikeways.
March 14, 2017
In Baltimore, Combining Bikes and Buses to Reconnect a Car-Lite City
In the first in a series of profiles of the 10 focus areas in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project, we look at Baltimore's plans to beef up frequent bus service and install a low-stress biking network in six neighborhoods.
March 3, 2017
Key SF Supervisor Commits to Protected Bike Lanes on Upper Market
Last week, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) launched a letter-writing drive to make sure protected bike lanes are part of SFMTA's Upper Market Street Safety Project from Octavia to the start of the Duboce bicycle path. It looks as if the campaign worked.
February 27, 2017
