Search - site wide text search

Parking-protected bike lanes, Muni boarding islands and pedestrian safety measures are bound for 7th and 8th streets in the South of Market District. On Tuesday , the SFMTA Board of Directors...

At 11th and Harrison streets in SoMa, we recently made a subtle but important safety upgrade for people biking and boarding Muni. While this street design is common internationally, it’s still fairly...

San Francisco’s first raised, parking-protected bike lane, which we wrote about in October , was completed this week on a short stretch of northbound Valencia Street, south of Cesar Chavez Street...

In a new experiment on Market Street, we’ve installed four types of safe-hit posts along a block of bike lane. Plastic “safe-hit” posts may be a relatively quick and low-cost way to separate bike...

This existing parking-protected bike lane on westbound 13th Street will get complemented with upgrades in the eastbound direction. In the coming weeks, 13th Street in SoMa will get safety upgrades,...

Bike commuters in a protected bike lane on Polk Street at Hayes Street on Bike to Work Day last year. This Thursday is Bike to Work Day , which means it's the perfect time once again to pedal out and...

The buffered bike lanes on the “Bernal Cut” section of San Jose Avenue now have protective concrete barriers to make for a safer, more comfortable ride. We and SF Public Works installed these...

Pilot Parking-Protected Bikeways on Valencia Street will be considered for approval on Tuesday, December 4 at the SFMTA Board of Directors meeting . With the SFMTA following through on Mayor London...

Since 2006, bicycle ridership has grown by 100 percent in San Francisco. Safety is critical as more people hop on two wheels to get where they need to go. You might have seen these green boxes at a...

This week, SFMTA crews started work to create a better, safer bikeway on 13th Street from Bryant to Folsom. The work is done in support of Vision Zero , the city’s goal to eliminate all traffic...

If you walk down eastbound Market between 9th and 10th streets you’ll see a rectangular barometer of sorts. This counter counts a bike trip as a bicyclist rolls down eastbound Market Street, right in...

Page Street commuters may have noticed a green center-running bike lane installed this week near Octavia Boulevard to help bike commuters get downtown safely. The idea of this one-block bike lane is...