SF News Hey, That Valencia Bike Lane Re-Do Is Finally Finished, With the Bike Lanes Back on the Curb Side Not many people liked the unconventional center-running Valencia Street bike lane the street had for a year and a half, so SF City Hall decided to move the lanes back to the curb. Now the work’s done, and the bike lanes are back on the side of the street.
SF News Moving Valencia Bike Lanes Back to the Curbside Starts Monday, When Construction Begins The now 19-month experiment to move the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street will come crumbling apart starting Monday, when construction crews start ripping those center bike lanes apart, and moving the lanes back to the curbside.
SF News It’s Official: Valencia Street Bike Lanes Moving Back to the Curbside, Starting in January The 15-month experiment of moving Valencia Street’s bike lanes to the center of the street has just been officially reversed, as the SFMTA just voted to move Valencia's bike lanes back to the curb in early 2025.
SF News SFMTA Unveils New Valencia Bike Lane Design That’s No Longer in Center of Street, ‘Swerves’ Around Parklets The center-running Valencia Street bike lane experiment is done for, and the bike lanes will move back to the curb side. The SF Municipal Transit Agency just released diagrams of what the redesigned bike lanes might look like.
SF News Center-Running Valencia Bike Lanes Could Be Heading Back to the Curbside in January The experiment moving the Valencia Street bike lanes to the center of the street was not a success, and SFMTA says they’ll be moving the bike lanes back to the curbside possibly as soon as January 2025.
SF Politics SFMTA Wants to Put a Bike Lane in Chinatown, Chinatown Leaders Not at All Happy With the Idea Right after the SFMTA’s embarrassing need for a do-over on the Valencia Street bike lane, the agency is now pushing for a bike lane in Chinatown. But Chinatown community groups don’t want it, and say the idea “just doesn’t make sense.”
SF News Another Bicyclist Struck and Injured by Motorist In Controversial Valencia Bike Lane While SF has decided to toss out the new and widely criticized center-running bike lane on Valencia Street, a bicyclist was hit, bloodied up, and hospitalized this weekend by a driver reportedly making a U-turn on that street.
SF News SFMTA Votes to End the Valencia Center Bike Lane Experiment, But New Curbside Lanes Won’t Arrive Until 2025 After nearly a year of controversy, the SFMTA has decided to flip-flop the Valencia Street bike lane back to the old curbside design, but the new curbside bike lanes won’t be completed until January 2025 at the earliest.
SF News SFMTA Will Consider Ditching the Valencia Street Center-Running Bike Lane Next Week Nearly one year and plenty of controversies into the center-running bike lane on Valencia Street, the SFMTA has had enough of the complaining, and will consider moving the bike lane back to the curb side at next week’s meeting.
SF News Valencia Street Shop Owner Declares Hunger Strike Over Bike Lane With Gloriously Rambling Graffiti Message The owner of Valencia Street art gallery Rossi and Mediterranean restaurant Yasmin has declared a hunger strike to protest the center-running bike lane on that corridor, and his graffiti declaration is quite a mouthful.
SF News SFMTA Takes No Action on Changing Valencia Bike Lane, Despite Its Ongoing Controversies Despite a new lawsuit and a claim that SFMTA might move the Valencia Street bike lane back to the curbside, the agency’s board made no changes to the controversial bike lane at Tuesday’s meeting.
SF News SFMTA Claims New Valencia Bike Lane Is Safer, But They Might Bow to Pressure and Redesign It Anyway If you believe the SFMTA, the new Valencia Street center bike lane has been a smashing success. But businesses say it has smashed their revenues, and some bicyclists say it’s uniquely dangerous, so SFMTA is considering redesigning the whole thing.
SF News Amidst Continuing Furor Over Valencia Street Bike Lane, SFMTA Hints They May Overhaul It Last week, Valencia Street businesses protested the controversial center bike land and called for the scalp of SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin. Now Tumlin has published an op-ed hinting that they just might redesign the bike lane, maybe.
Arts & Entertainment Valencia Street Nightclub Amado’s Has Closed Permanently, Owner Blames New Center Bike Lane Eight-year-old Valencia Street bar Amado’s apparently closed for good over the weekend, with the owner blaming the street’s new center bike lane. To add insult to injury, the SFMTA just delayed its evaluation of possible changes to that bike lane.
SF News Another Valencia Bike Lane Accident, as Illegal U-Turn Injures Scooter Rider Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
SF News Valencia Street Center Bike Lane Causing Confusion, Exasperated Shops Say It's Ruining Business Add Valencia Street merchants to the chorus of people complaining about Valencia Street’s new center bike lane, as shops say it’s drastically cut their revenue, and transit advocates howl that it’s unsafe and counterintuitive.
SF News 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.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Construction Underway, Parking on Valencia Street Currently Quite Restricted The new project to create “center bike lanes” in the middle of Valencia Street has started construction, and it may be tough to find parking on certain swaths of Valencia through the end of June.
SF News SFMTA Board Votes To Move Bike Lanes To the Middle Of Valencia Street, In Meeting Interrupted By Earthquake A literal earthquake struck Tuesday just before the SFMTA Board of Directors approved a one-year pilot program to move the grounds of the Valencia Street bike lane into the middle of the street instead of the side.
SF News Can Anything Be Done To Keep Drivers From Abusing SF's Bike Lanes? You likely know that San Francisco's 300 miles of bike lane are legally reserved for bicycles and the people who ride them, and you just as likely know that operators of motorized vehicles
SF News Raised Bike Lanes Arrive On Market Street Finally, after first hearing about the plan three years ago to add raised "cycle tracks" along Market Street, the Department of Public Works began construction on them today, with the first to arrive
SF News SFPD Seeks Cadillac Driver After Conflict With Cyclist Another day, another story of conflict between a cyclist and a driver, I guess? Today's tale in this city battling over regulations for bike riders involves a Cadillac, an allegedly sideswiped cyclist, and
SF News Video: Stanley Roberts Shames People Misusing Embarcadero Bike Lanes Respect the bike lane, people! It's already been noted that Valencia Street and Market Street are places where bike lanes are regularly misused and invaded by vehicles. And third on that Bicycle Coalition
SF News Local Kook Rides High-Wheeler Cycle Down Market Street And Local Paper Calls The Cops On Him This guy has been seen riding a penny-farthing, also known as a high-wheeler bicycle, in the bike lane down Market Street, and SF Weekly immediately called the SFPD on him to see if
SF News Dangerous Oak Street Finally Gets A Bike Lane Two-wheeled commuters and weekend types are in for a special kind of treat: the designated bike lane kind. As of yesterday, a new bike lane has appeared on three blocks of Oak Street
