SF News [Update] Mayor Announces 57 (Not So) New 'High Priority' Vision Zero Projects Scroll to the bottom of this post for updates. Mayor Ed Lee announced today 57 new "high priority" Vision Zero projects in an effort to address some of the most dangerous stretches of
SF News Should SF Streets Get Speed-Enforcement Cameras? San Francisco already has red-light cameras, but should we add speed cameras to the mix? Following the tragic deaths of two cyclists last week, the Chronicle's C.W. Nevius picks up the question
SF News Video: Man On Motorcycle Attacks Cyclist While In Bike Lane Motorcyclist assaulted me for enforcing the Golden Gate Ave bike lane. pic.twitter.com/YYzToqtbz4— Randall Dietel (@R27D) June 28, 2016 Cars and motorcycles using bike lanes to cut around slow-moving traffic is
SF News Transit Advocates Trade Barbs As SFPD Seeks Suspect In Cyclist Slaying As city organizations trade barbs over policies that they say would have prevented the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists Wednesday, the San Francisco Police Department continues to search for the suspect behind one
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: And Now You Will Never Lock Your Bike To One Of These As someone who, from time to time, locks their bikes to these "No Stopping Any Time: Tow-Away Zone" signs, I found this photo to be highly illustrative. I will no longer do so!
SF News Wrong-Way Cyclist Severely Injured In SoMa Crash A cyclist suffered serious injuries Friday afternoon, after she fell from her bike when startled by a turning motorist. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the crash occurred at 4:05 p.
SF News Video: Screaming Driver, Cyclist Nearly Come To Blows On Market Street A confrontation caught on tape yesterday morning shows a driver who had been driving in the bike lane on Market Street jumping out of his car and verbally accosting a clearly frightened cyclist
SF News Cab Driver Runs Down Crosswalk Cyclist A cyclist riding near Fisherman's Wharf was seriously injured Tuesday, after a cab driver barreled into a crosswalk and over the bicyclist, police say. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 33-year-old
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Crashes Car Into Cyclist In Bike Lane On Bike To Work Day A SFPD officer appears to have struck a cyclist yesterday with his vehicle, as video clearly shows the car signaling a right-hand turn before its driver swung left — right into the bike lane
SF News Mayor Vetoes 'Idaho Stop' Law As Promised Mayor Ed Lee made good on his threat yesterday, and officially vetoed the Bicycle Yield ordinance proposed last year by Supervisor John Avalos and approved by the Board of Supervisors. The ordinance sought
SF News New Law Forcing Hoverboards Into Bike Lanes Takes Effect Once again burnishing our progressive rep, California has officially made hoverboards legit. However, not everyone embraces this transportation revolution, as the new law which took effect January 1 that permits the use of
SF News Someone Is Spiking Roads In Woodside To Bring Down Cyclists Many in San Francisco love to rant and rave about the city's cycling community. Either the two-wheeled fiends go too fast or too slow. They either never stop at stop signs, or stop
SF News Oakland, S.F. Mayors Dressed As Cyclists Today This is downright charming, you guys. For the 20th annual Bike to Work Day, both Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee donned athletic finery and took to the bike
Arts & Entertainment Map: Tomorrow's Bike To Work Day Energizer Stations Grab your fixie and hit the road, kids. Tomorrow, May 8, is Bike to Work Day in San Francisco — the 20th anniversary, in fact. Whether pedaling alone or with a convoy, you can
SF News Bait Bikes Ready To Nab S.F. Bike Thieves A heads-up to all active and would-be bike thieves: SFPD will plant the city with bait bikes ready to tempt scheming ne'er-do-wells. "We have bait bikes deployed all over the city. Our bikes
SF News Cyclist Tweets Allegations Of Possible Bike Chop Shops [Updated] Yesterday on Twitter, @SFPDBikeTheft, the noted Twitter account that helps inform SFPD about bike thefts in progress, had a bit of a run-in with local cyclists accusing SFPD of not taking bike thievery
SF News Have You Heard? Bicycles Are The Next Big Thing A new report by the SFMTA confirms what every driver, cyclist, and pedestrian in the city already knows: there are hella bikes on the road, and that number has risen precipitously in the
SF News S.F. 'Most Bike-Friendly City' In The Country? It's all relative, as the saying goes, and it's never been truer than with today's announcement that San Francisco has been crowned the "most bike-friendly city" in the nation. Or, as it could
SF News Cyclist Runs Breed Off Twitter Road Once billed as the Amanda Bynes of S.F. Supervisors, District 5 Supervisor London Breed left Twitter today after battling it out with cycling-rights advocates online. And we're downright crestfallen. The entire brouhaha
SF News Police Chief Apologizes, Cites Driver In SoMa Cyclist Death After initially letting the big-rig driver whose right turned killed a 24-year-old cyclist earlier this month, Police Chief Greg Suhr announced that an investigation has found the driver at fault in the accident.
SF News Bay Bridge Bike/Walk Path Will Open Too, Sort Of; Three Toll Lanes Will Be Closed This Weekend Some good news/bad news about the new eastern half of the Bay Bridge, which we can't stop talking about, we know. First off, the biking/walking path that will take people on
SF News SFMTA Backpedals On Bike Lanes In Polk Street Revamp Reversal In the SFMTA's continued efforts to please no one with their Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project, a new plan (PDF) was unveiled yesterday that would backpedal on separated bike lanes but still remove
SF News SFMTA Agrees Bike Lanes Are Terrifying According to a new report from the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency, less than 10 percent of San Francisco's bike lanes are suitable for children or the elderly. Meaning: the city's bike lanes
Arts & Entertainment Jock Straps and Corset Reform: Let's Pause to Appreciate Bicycling's Gifts to the World Last season on Copper, we got a good look at the way 1860s New Yorkers lived. We discovered their fashion, pastimes, slang, and gruesome water cooler talk. Lately, New Yorkers have been spending
Arts & Entertainment What Is The Proper Way To Make A Right Turn? When it comes to le cycling and les cars, we don't know, really. No idea AT ALL, man. So we had to ask a couple of real-life cyclists. As a staunch pedestrian, the