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Rogue Bike Brigade Once Again Commandeers Bay Bridge, on the Exact Same Day They Did It Last Year

There’s no bike lane on the western span of the Bay Bridge, so a few hundred bicyclists took that matter into their own hands and made the entire eastbound deck a bike lane Sunday, clogging traffic for about a half-hour.

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New Valencia Bike Lane Sows Confusion and Chaos, Some Call It ‘Valencia Meatgrinder'

The reviews are decidedly mixed for the new Valencia center bike lane, with some saying it’s safer, and others alarmed that it “sandwiches” bicyclists between two lanes of moving cars.

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East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured

A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.

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Bottom of the Hill Owner Launches Petition to Oppose Protected Bike Lane Quick-Build Project on 17th Street

A proposal by the SFMTA to do a bike lane "quick-build" project to create a protected lane for cyclists coming down 17th Street between the Mission and Dogpatch/Mission Bay has raised the hackles of the owners of music venues Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside.

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Rogue Bike Brigade Took Over Eastbound Bay Bridge Lanes, Possibly Then Committed Burglaries In Oakland

A group of what appeared to be teenagers on bicycles, numbering around 200, took over the lower deck of the Bay Bridge on Saturday afternoon and biked their way into Oakland. A short while later, some East Oakland businesses reported that they were burglarized by a gang of about 200 bicyclists.

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SF Dad Starts ‘Bike Bus’ of Kids Riding to School, It Swells to Several Dozen In Size

Inspired by a similar “bicibús” ride in Barcelona, a pro-slow-streets group has created a pint-sized Critical Mass bike ride for kids pedaling to school en masse.

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Group of Bay Area Firefighters Depart On Cross-Country Bike Trip to Mark 20th Anniversary of 9/11

A group of local firefighters and military vets are now off on a 40-day bicycle trek across the U.S., riding from the "Bay to Brooklyn" with plans to arrive in time for the 20th anniversary commemoration of September 11th in New York City.

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Well Known 86-Year-Old Cyclist Killed In East Bay Collision

An 86-year-old man who was well known in the Lamorinda area for bicycling hundreds of miles every week and advocating for bike safety on the roads was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday less than a mile from his home.

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Oakland Is Shutting Down 74 Miles of City Streets to Make More Room For Runners and Cyclists

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Thursday that the city will be closing 10 percent of its roadways to vehicle traffic during the coronavirus lockdown in order to create more social-distancing space for people trying to stay fit and active.

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After Cyclist's Death, SFMTA To Remove Parking And Extend Howard Street Bike Lane

Following the death of bicyclist Tess Rothstein on Friday, the SFMTA says it will immediately be removing street parking on the north side of Howard Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets in order to extend the protected bike lane.

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Self-Driving Car And Bicyclist Were Involved In Collision Last Month

The incident sounds relatively minor, but we have reports today, via mandatory DMV reporting, of a collision between a self-driving car and a bicyclist on the streets of San Francisco in May which

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Assembly Committee Mulls Bill To Allow California Cyclists To Roll Through Stop Signs

There’s been significant gnashing of teeth and grinding of gears in San Francisco over the controversial, so-called “Idaho stop” — the practice of bicycles yielding instead of hard stopping at intersections with stop

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'Idaho Stop' Could Become Legal For Cyclists Statewide Under New Assembly Bill

Bicycle advocates have long been pushing for the legalization of the so-called "Idaho stop" — or "California roll" — in which cyclists treat stop signs more as yield signs, only coming to a full stop

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Stanley Roberts Shames Cyclists Who Blow Through Red Lights On Market Street

KRON 4's Stanley Roberts brings his shame camera to SF's Market Street this week to document just how many people on bicycles roll right through red lights in a given hour, sometimes doing

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Homeless Encampment Continues To Render Cesar Chavez Bike Bridge Virtually Unusable

One part of town that has seen persistent homeless encampments over the past year is the area around Cesar Chavez and the 101/Potrero interchange, sometimes referred to as "The Hairball." About 100

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Chastened By Regulators, Chinese Bike-Share Company Plans Scaled-Back 'Soft' Launch In SF

Bluegogo, the app-based Chinese bike share company whose reported plan to drop thousands of bikes around San Francisco willy-nilly had local lawmakers tut-tutting, is opting instead to proceed with caution. Specifically, that means

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Chinese Bike-Share Outfit Warned Not To Drop Thousands Of Bikes On SF Streets Without Permits

Chinese bike-sharing startup Bluegogo may have to backpedal on its plans to expand to San Francisco. City officials are warning the company not to proceed without permits and perhaps to the detriment of

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Friday Collision Injures Motorcyclist In Castro; Driver Sought In Mission Hit-and-Run That Injured Cyclist

Motorcyclist Injured In Collision At Market & Noe: https://t.co/0JtmaN1GJe by @braccs @britthopkins pic.twitter.com/feT6HLZDaa— Hoodline (@Hoodline) December 3, 2016 Another collision occurred Friday night in the Castro's most

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Surprise! Bay Bridge Bike Path Delayed Yet Again

Remember when officials promised us in May that the bike path connecting the East Bay to Yerba Buena Island would fully, finally open in September? Well, yeah, about that. The Chronicle reports that

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Slain Cyclist's Family Argues City Should Stop Removing Memorials

When a cyclist dies on the streets of San Francisco, the tragedy is often memorialized by a ghost bike. You've likely seen the all-white bikes chained to various poles or signs near the

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Someone Put A Spike Strip On A Marin Mountain Biking Trail

Marin mountain bikers are on edge this week after two cyclists discovered a spiked strip laid across a popular trail. The Marin Independent Journal reports that the apparent booby trap consisted of over

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Anyone Recognize This Road Rage Cyclist Who Slashed A Woman's Tire In The Mission?

Police are seeking a male cyclist suspected of threatening a female driver and slashing her car's front tire with a knife. The incident happened Monday night at 20th and Mission Streets, and the

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Enormous Branch Blocks Panhandle Bike Path

On Sunday evening at around 6 p.m. in the Panhandle, a huge cypress tree branch came crashing down onto the bike path that runs along Fell Street. Fortunately, there are no reports

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Mustachioed Road Rage Cyclist Ian Hespelt Pleads Guilty To Assault And Vandalism Charges

You surely remember that Critical Mass confrontation last August that turned ugly when a Zipcar driver happened upon the bicycle convention, possibly stepped on the gas with a cyclist in front of her,

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Officials: Bay Bridge East Span Bike Path Will Finally Fully Open This September

After a series of delays (at least four), engineers working on the eastern span of the Bay Bridge are finally confident enough in their progress to give a projected date for the completion