Ride for Palestine!
This July we will be slow riding with a larger event hosted by the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA).

When: Sunday, July 20th at 8:30 AM
Roll: 9:00 AM
Where: Meet at MECA HQ @ 1101 8th Street, Berkeley
Register with team SSR https://bit.ly/J20RFP_SSR by July 15th!

Easy 14-mile cruise with beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay. Designed to be enjoyable for cyclists of all ages and skill levels.

This is a fundraiser and costs $50 to register. Blog post with more info: https://www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/july-slow-ride-with-meca/

The new safer 17th Street bike lanes in Potrero Hill increased average daily bicycle volumes by 53%, from 1,167 to 1,782. #bikeSF

Report: https://www.sfmta.com/media/42512/download?inline

Getting there! More to be done on Valencia, but soon we'll at least have decent bike lanes for most of the street. And the bad idea of running bikes down the middle can be buried for good. #bikeSF

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/04/28/eyes-on-the-street-valencia-curbside-protected-bike-lanes-nearing-completion

Oak Street news: if approved, protected bike lane along Panhandle would finally be implemented when Oak’s repaved next year!

NOPNA supports it. Opposition from HANC and Urban School delayed it, but Urban School now standing down. Converts 23 parking spots, plus 26 within 20’ of crosswalks are being converted to daylighting.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/oak-street-safety-parking-20230342.php #bikeSF

Barriers to SF pedestrianizing (non-park) streets all over like Paris:
1. Driveways everywhere. Lack of back alleys like some cities have (not sure about Paris)
2. Alternatives to driving not improving fast enough
a. Transit service levels continuing longterm decline
b. Bike infra expansion slow, piecemeal
3. Politics around funding: the most carbrained 34% of voters can sink a bond. Strongly incentivizes conservatism on streets

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-residents-vote-making-500-more-streets-pedestrian-2025-03-22/ #sfPol #bikeSF

“Safer Illinois organizers… contracted an engineering firm to make a conceptual design of a protected bike lane”

I have nothing but respect for these folks and don’t blame them for the situation, but the equity implications of having to privately fund work to make streets safe are alarming. #bikeSF #sfPol

https://thefrisc.com/sf-bike-lane-plan-near-chase-center-has-small-business-fans/

The Green Connections Network, from a 2014 plan that hasn't been funded or implemented. These were to be both comfortable and all-ages appropriate walking and bicycling routes, and also greening projects benefiting ecology. In some ways more complete than the just-passed Biking and Rolling Plan. #bikeSF

Evans eastbound bike lane is shut down for a couple blocks approaching Phelps for a construction project. But it was chill because the Honda driver behind me was chill about it. No honking or wacky maneuvers to pass. Stuff is so much easier when people are simply kind. #bikeSF

I feel like people who bike/want to bike in SF need to have a, "Ok, the adopted Biking & Rolling Plan sucks. What now?" meeting. #bikeSF

This sounds like the meeting was such a love-fest from advocates.

I don't know how to reconcile that with the actual map that has:
- not a single full N-S or E-W connection through the Mission
- "shared" facilities on Geneva Ave, other high-traffic through streets
- big gaps/"TBDs" in Excelsior, Tenderloin, Bayview, Chinatown, North Beach, and W. Addition
#bikeSF #sfPol

https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/sfmta-board-ambitious-biking-plan-to-link-hundreds-of-city-streets/

the Duboce/Market intersection makes it maximally annoying to do what you want to do: continue from the bikeway downhill to Valencia (or to the protected bike lane that starts a few blocks later). #bikeSF

That's more like it.

#bikesf how are we feeling about page 2.0? I'm worried about cementing the existing design when @pageslowstreet is failing to meet traffic thresholds

#BikeSF friends, go check out the @pageslowstreet virtual open house and do the survey! It's just 3 questions, won't take you any time at all.

https://www.sfmta.com/projects/page-slow-street

Well-deserved victory lap for SFMTA: the Townsend protected bike lanes from 8th St to 3rd have been a huge improvement. Unfortunate that bicycle volumes decreased, almost certainly due to Covid's effects on commutes or it would look even better. #bikeSF #sfPol

https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/113992827610786016

I emailed SFMTA two days ago to ask if 13th Street was still happening… coincidence?

Nice little project that’ll close a 3-block bike lane gap between Folsom and Valencia (finally)

https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/113947824766896504 #bikeSF

This listicle's "worst bike lane" candidate from San Francisco, Alemany westbound between the footbridge and Congdon St, was approved to be upgraded to a concrete-protected bike lane last month.

https://momentummag.com/americas-worst-bike-lanes/
https://www.sfmta.com/media/41059/download?inline
#bikeSF

One of the worst-designed bits of bike infra in SF is where Portola Drive's bike lane suddenly ends, and you're expected to cross two lanes of speeding traffic to turn left onto a parallel street (Corbett) to continue. #bikeSF

nice to see the city moving quickly to implement prop K with improved bike connections to Lincoln and Sloat

hearing at MTA board 12/3

https://www.sfmta.com/projects/lincoln-and-sloat-quick-build-connections-project #bikeSF