Entries from SFist tagged with 'bicycling'
May 22, 2008
The name of the bicyclist killed yesterday has been released. He was Kirk Janes, founder of the American Flyer bike messenger service, and a well-known figure in the local bike messenger community. We like this quote from the Chronicle that describes the kind of guy he was: Janes had broken his hip while riding on Second Street last year and could have gone on disability from the state. Instead, he quit Speedway Delivery last......
Continue Reading "Kirk Janes, RIP"May 21, 2008
Starting tonight, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will host a series of public meetings, where your can voice your input on the proposed improvements to bicycle routes in San Francisco. (Map of said routes after the jump.) The SFMTA's Bicycle Program, you see, plans around "60 proposed bicycle improvement projects that would add approximately 34 miles of bike lanes to the bike route network," which would about double San Francisco's bicycle lane mileage.......
Continue Reading "SFMTA Wants To Know How To Better Suit Your Cycling Needs"May 15, 2008
Show me the Legalese: Rob Anderson's latest project? Our Bike to Work Day took us down the bike lane on Alemany Boulevard -- one of the last bike lanes striped in San Francisco before the injunction against the city's Bicycle Plan. (The lanes were striped in April 2006; the injunction granted in June 2006.) So we wondered, of course: on Bike to Work Day two years later, what is procedure buff and injunction mastermind......
Continue Reading "What Is Bicycle Gadfly Rob Anderson Doing on Bike to Work Day?"