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 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 Day Around the Bay: Stonemill Matcha on Valencia Street Will Reopen Wednesday An encampment fire broke out under SF’s Central Freeway Tuesday; those Cruise robotaxi patches are unfortunately staying on the Giants' uniforms next season; and the popular Stonemill Matcha returns to Valencia Street Wednesday under new ownership.
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 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 Valencia's Multikulti To Close, Bringing Heartbreak To Costume Community That handwritten sign in the window display of Frida Kahlo leggings, chunky Egyptian collar necklaces, and blingy ballcaps, sadly, is correct. After more than 16 years, popular Valencia Street costume boutique Multikulti has
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist To Decorate Valencia Street With Easily Removable Art Starting Sunday July 1st, a local artist who goes by the frustratingly postmodern tag "_g", will either decorate Valencia Street with her artwork, or simply give it all away with a new guerrilla
SF News Los Angeles Anarchist Group Posts YouTube Video Of Valencia Vandalism A feminist, anarchist group from Los Angeles has posted a YouTube video titled "Scenes from a Black Bloc documenting protesters during the pre-May Day demonstrations that left the neighborhood trashed on April 30th.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Bicycle Company Bucks Trend, Produces Bike With Gears, Brakes Mission Bicycle Company, which is known for being: A) located on Valencia Street and B) producing colorful custom fixed-gear bicycles, is branching out their product line to something far more utilitarian: a bicycle
SF News Double Stabbing Near Dolores Park Rocks Elite Valencia Corridor Looking like the Mission-Dolores of the '90s, a grisly stabbing near artisan market Bi-Rite resulted in two men being whisked to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. The incident occurred on Oakwood between
