#bikesf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bikesf, aggregated by home.social.
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2/2 I was inspired by:
-bike advocates who helped ensure a bike path stays available on the Golden Gate Bridge (super busy today)
-advocates who successfully got a section of Great Highway closed to cars & turned it into a wonderful linear park by the beach (this is what Lake WA Blvd in Seattle should become!)
-gorgeous weather which led me to keep biking another 10+ miles when I only planned on crossing the GG Bridge
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Modest improvement coming to the Evans bike lane: one additional block eastbound from Rankin to Quint will be parking-protected. https://www.sfmta.com/media/44461/download?inline
Biking on Evans is now vastly better than before the project, but the traffic numbers show how much work is left to be done: cars still outnumber bikes on Evans 100 to 1 (!), probably because nearby connecting streets like Cesar Chavez, Phelps, and 3rd Street are still so unsafe, discouraging biking in the area. #bikeSF
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This Sunday, Feb 1st is our first Slow Ride of 2026!
Join us for a chill pace along Slow Cayuga, Slow Somerset, the Bayview Community Pathway, and Slow 20th Street. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at our first stop or after the ride!
Meet: Balboa Park, 11am (rolling out at 11:30)
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Join us for our first Slow Streets Slow Ride of 2026 on Sunday, Feb 1st!
Start: Balboa Park, 11am (roll out 11:30)
End: Dolores Park
Slow Streets covered: Cayuga, Somerset, Bayview multimodal corridor, Minnesota, 20th St -
Great odometer reading on this morning’s commute. 🚲 #bikesf #CargoBike
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Oooh! Excited for the new "The New Wheel" location on Valencia across the street from Ritual. #bikesf
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Some coverage of our rally yesterday to #KeepMarketStreetMoving!
“Traffic safety advocates are urging San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to reverse his decision to allow private car services on Market Street, citing safety concerns.
“Protests erupted outside City Hall on Tuesday as various groups…voiced their opposition to the presence of Waymo, Uber, and Lyft vehicles on Market Street.”
https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/critics-oppose-waymo-other-rideshare-services-on-market-street/ #sfpol #bikeSF #bikeTooter #waymo
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Loving my new “radar” rain jacket from Cleverhood. Will keep it in heavy rotation with my “dazzle” jacket. #bikesf #BikeTooter
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🍉🚲 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/
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The new safer 17th Street bike lanes in Potrero Hill increased average daily bicycle volumes by 53%, from 1,167 to 1,782. #bikeSF
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Even though I rarely leave my corner of SF (see visited station map below), I've used bike share bikes A LOT. I started back in 2013, when the Bay Area Air Quality Management District launched the Bay Area Bike Share pilot program, and I've continued through the Motivate, Ford, Mastercard, and now Lyft Bay Wheels phases, with a brief detour through Jump.
#bikesf #BikeShare #BayWheels #SanFrancisco #BayArea -
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
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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
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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 streetshttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-residents-vote-making-500-more-streets-pedestrian-2025-03-22/ #sfPol #bikeSF
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“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/
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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
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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
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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
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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 #sfPolhttps://missionlocal.org/2025/03/sfmta-board-ambitious-biking-plan-to-link-hundreds-of-city-streets/
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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
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That's more like it.
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#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.
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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 -
@elliots The Forbes article doesn't suggest why cycling to work extends life, or compare road commuting to (separate path) train travel. But I vividly remember when I began using bike/BART - I'd cycle under one of the freeways where I'd previously spent over an hour a day in traffic, and choke on the fumes I could now mostly avoid. #BART #bike #bikesf
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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
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Also in 2029 the Howard bikeway will still fail to connect to the 13th Street protected bike lane (which would be the fastest way over to Valencia)
So you'll either have to risk your life mixing with freeway-bound traffic for two blocks or make an annoying pointless detour
As usual the #bikeSF improvements will take forever and then there will still be gaps
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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
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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