The proudly pro-bike blog Uptown Almanac put up an interesting post about the San Francisco Police Department “running a sting” on Market and Turk in downtown San Francisco. He observed the officers hanging out on the corner in plain clothes and on motorcycles, waiting for cyclists to roll right through the busy intersection’s stop light [...]
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Should police ticket San Francisco cyclists?
Posted Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Learning from Washington DC’s bike highway
Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012Lots of talk right now about San Francisco Metro Transit Authority’s decision to move ahead with the proposed bikeway on Fell and Oak. This is great news, to make biking (and driving) safer in San Francisco, structural improvements like this one are necessary. But when you look at this image of the proposed design (below), [...]
San Francisco becomes a little more bike friendly
Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012The Priceonomics blog has declared San Francisco the biggest market for bikes in America. The site used “number of bikes for sale” as an index of the likelihood that a city’s residents are in the market. Fair enough, if nothing else, it means there’s a pretty serious perception that people in San Francisco are interested [...]
Cyborgs, cell phones and traffic safety
Posted Monday, January 9th, 2012Technology is advancing at an accelerating rate. “Steps” in innovation that previously took years are now taking months. Each new iteration of the smart phone increases our connectivity with our digital lives and selves. Increasingly, when we think, we don’t do it alone, but with the help of That integration between technology, our own lives [...]
Map of all US road accident casualties from 2001-2009
Posted Monday, November 28th, 2011This incredible map was put together by The Guardian and ITO using data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration. In the US, 369,629 passengers, drivers, pedestrians and cyclists died on the road between 2001-2009. In 2009, California had the 15th highest rates of pedestrian deaths by population, though overall roadway casualties dropped by [...]
Would eliminating sidewalks and curbs make pedestrians safer?
Posted Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011Here’s a revolutionary idea: what if walking on the street was safer than walking on the sidewalk? That’s the hypothesis of a new movement that started in Europe and may be making its way state side. It’s called “Shared Spaces,” and it proposes to make streets safer by eliminating barriers between pedestrian and auto traffic. [...]
Top 5 Bikeshare Myths
Posted Wednesday, November 16th, 2011In the last three years, bikeshare programs have exploded in cities like Minneapolis, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and New York City and San Francisco are poised to add major programs of their own. The programs have been widely popular thus far, but to some, bikeshare still seem like highly public project that adds little to [...]
Drivers less cautious around male cyclists
Posted Wednesday, October 26th, 2011When it comes to cycling, it appears that chivalry is very much alive. That’s according to a new study commissioned by the Florida Department of Transportation that found drivers, on average, pass more closely to male cyclists than females. The study, which was published in September, examined trends in the ways that motorists interact with [...]
California conflicted over how to protect cyclists
Posted Monday, October 17th, 2011California’s cycling community is a boisterous and active group. But it took a blow last week when Governor Brown vetoed SB 910, a bicycle safety bill that would have required passing motorists to give cyclists three feet of space. As we noted in an earlier post on SB 910’s progress, 19 other states, beginning with [...]
Important bicycling safety measure now before the Governor of California
Posted Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Just last week we wrote about an unfortunate accident involving a cyclist and a San Francisco Muni bus that left the cyclist with a badly crushed arm. The incident took place, both sides agree, when the cyclist was forced to change lanes by an illegally parked vehicle. The bus, as is the case with the [...]
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