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Cycle Track Description and Use in San Francisco (PDF)

Cycle tracks are bikeways that are physically separated from motor vehicle traffic to enhance cyclists’ subjective feeling of safety and reduce some crash types. The physical separation can consist of raised concrete or planted islands, parked cars, a painted barrier with safe-hit posts or other similar treatments. Unlike typical bike paths, which often serve pedestrians and bicyclists, these bicycle-exclusive paths are typically located in the street (or occasionally adjacent to it).

In San Francisco, cycle tracks may be implemented on streets with high automobile and/or bicycle volumes, where the speed differential between bicycles and automobiles is great, where the City would like to encourage vulnerable or timid cyclists to ride and/or where conditions such as long blocks with few curb cuts make cycle track installation particularly feasible.

As of February 2011, cycle tracks have been implemented on Market Street, Division Street and Laguna Honda Boulevard.

Cycletrack on Market Street with green pavement treatment

Cycletrack on Laguna Honda Blvd.

Cycletrack on Laguna Honda Blvd. (photo by Aaron Bialick, streetsblog.org)

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