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No Change: San Francisco Cop Ignores Motorist Violations, Harasses Cyclist
The police department continues to ignore enforcement of the five most dangerous behaviors; prefers to bully people on bikes
April 17, 2023
Call for Protected Bike Lanes on Arguello
The cycling community is outraged at the death of Ethan Boyes. They demand action from Presidio Trust and city of San Francisco.
April 12, 2023
Commentary: Three Things S.F. Can Do to Make Progress on Vision Zero
There are three things that the city could do within weeks that would make a demonstrable impact on pedestrian safety
April 7, 2023
Driver Kills Cyclist on Arguello in Presidio
Another person killed by city's unsafe streets. Streetsblog calls again for physical, concrete separation between bicyclists and moving cars
April 7, 2023
SFMTA Board Approves Only Option They Were Given on Valencia
You can have any bike lane you want, as long as it's unprotected center running, says SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin
April 6, 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
San Francisco Officially Opens Two-Way Battery Bike Lane
It's sad that SFMTA, in 2023, with record fatalities due to traffic violence in 2022, is still "experimenting" on humans and building and boasting about such bare-bone, "better than nothing" designs.
March 16, 2023
