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Eyes on the Street: Update on Telegraph, the Protected Bike Lane that Almost Wasn’t
Advocates fought for years and achieved the impossible in Oakland. They should be proud to see concrete going in and the project nearing completion, because they stuck to their principles and demanded real and safe protected infrastructure.
April 4, 2023
Call to Action: Help Build a Better Valencia Street
Only 13 percent of people supported abandoning the Dutch-style plan in favor of center-running in last year's SFMTA outreach. Decades of Dutch and Danish planning experience shows center-running doesn't work. But the city forges ahead despite public opinion and international best practices. Join a growing chorus and tell the city to stop gaslighting cyclists and build for safety, not parking.
March 29, 2023
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Blinks on Safe Valencia
Advocates give up the fight for Dutch-style protected bike lanes on Valencia. They're making a huge mistake.
March 24, 2023
A Deep Dive Into Center-Running Bike Lanes, a Known Infrastructure Failure
In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the Copenhagenize blog, wrote a great post he shouldn't have had to write in the first place, explaining why center-running bike lanes are dangerous and stupid. Given the recent push to repeat this failed design on Valencia, Streetsblog decided to run it here.
March 22, 2023
Advocates Push Back Against Valencia Center-Running-Bike-Lane Bait-and-Switch
Let's be clear: center running is worse than nothing
March 20, 2023
Commentary: Western Alameda Bike/Ped Bridge Proposal Is Too Damn Complicated
There's a reason the San Francisco Chronicle is saying it may never be built
March 8, 2023
Jeffrey Tumlin Stereotypes Cyclists, Fans Anti-bike Hate
SFMTA director talks about civility, even as he stereotypes people on bikes and pours gasoline on anti-cyclist fervor
March 3, 2023
The Return of Oakland’s Slow Streets
Guest post from Bike East Bay encourages people to get involved in the return of Slow Streets to Oakland
March 2, 2023
Lawmaker, Walk S.F., Renew Support for Vision Zero
Walk San Francisco and Supervisor Dean Preston try again to get San Francisco lawmakers and bureaucrats to value life over parking
February 27, 2023
