San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee

Opinion | Once-in-a-lifetime chance: Transform SF's Great Highway into an iconic park

San Francisco's free Adaptive Bike Program returns to Golden Gate Park on Saturday, July 13. In partnership with the BORP Adaptive Sports and Recreation and SFMTA - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, we're providing hand cycles, foot trikes and tandem bikes for use on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through October 26. These adaptive cycles will be available at the Music Concourse behind the Bandshell (75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive) and next to the accessible parking lot. No reservations are needed, with availability first come, first served.

For more information, call (510) 848-2930 or email [email protected].

Please RSVP to your local neighborhood Biking and Rolling Plan Open House! Link to RSVP here: https://www.sfmta.com/upcoming-meetings-and-events/26169

Hope they include spending some good proportion of that on bike paths that connect to stations and secure lock-ups for cyclists at those stations 🚉 .

📢 Caltrans awards $51.4M for Sustainable Transportation Projects to strengthen California’s climate resilience. 94% will benefit disadvantaged communities.
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It’s good to be in the right place

2024’s Best Places to Bike | PeopleForBikes Photo Credit: Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau

Who’s on what side of the controversy and what’s their funding and motivation?

New group forms to fight Valencia Street bike lanes, but who are they?

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.

Did you hear?! Caltrans is investing $930M over the next 4 years to improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Look for 265 miles of new & improved bike lanes, and 1.3K safety elements like more visible & separated bike lanes, ADA-accessible curb ramps, better signage, and upgraded signalization. 🚶🧑‍🦯🚴

▶ More: https://dot.ca.gov/news-releases/news-release-2024-010


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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/nyregion/street-wars-e-bikes.html?smid=url-share

Have E-Bikes Made New York City a ‘Nightmare’? E-bikes zoom down streets, zigzag around cars and zip across sidewalks, changing the way some residents view the streets.

Good idea! https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/students-bike-school-climate-activism/?utm_

Record number of students participate in Sonoma County’s Bike to School Day Petaluma schools have organized bike trains for the last three years.

Paul Wells, D10 Rep here. We gave support to Safer 17th in our meetings, reporting back to the 11 Supervisors we serve on our committee in the City and County of San Francisco and credit to Peter Belden for winning approval. Congratulations to him for this recognition.🚲

Congrats to our 2024 Bike Champion of the Year, Peter Belden! 🎉

A longtime member and community advocate for biking, Peter dedicates his time to making SF a better place to bike, whether he's organizing a bike bus for students, or for protected bike lanes.

Why bikes? 👉 "It’s fun. It’s healthy. It’s better for the planet and you get to experience the city and see things you’d normally miss. [...] I took a SF Bike class on urban riding and went out to explore. I found that although there were some routes, particularly in SOMA, that felt safe, there were too many gaps in the bike network. I knew I wanted to help make a difference there. Now I bike for everyday transportation, but advocating for better biking infrastructure is an even bigger part of my life."

Read our full interview, and get inspired and ready for Bike to Wherever Day on May 16!
https://sfbike.org/news/meet-peter-our-2024-bike-champion-of-the-year/

May starts Wednesday. If your bike is road ready, let’s get in gear!

May is officially Bike Month! We've compiled bike events going on all over the city, all month long. Check out the calendar and click through each event for more info, and get excited for Bike to Wherever Day on May 16! https://sfbike.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bike-Month-Calendar.pdf

How New Speed Cameras Will Make Our Neighborhoods Safer A new roadway safety tool will make San Francisco's streets safer in 2025. Here’s everything you need to know about Automated Speed Enforcement cameras.

With no cars on JFK, its a more enjoyable, kid-friendly place.

San Francisco is still a place where kids can be kids. Especially on this stretch JFK Promenade has turned out to be a delight for many pedestrians, cyclists, skaters and dog walkers.

Join us this Saturday, Jan. 27 for a double dose of transit history! From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., a stunning restored vintage Muni bus will be on display at Duboce Avenue & Noe Street (next to N Judah stop) for visitors to explore. At 11am, SFMTA and Harvey Milk Photo Center staff will lead a guided tour of the photo exhibit “120 years: SFMTA Photo Archive 1903-2023” inside the Photo Center gallery. Meet at the bus for the tour, gallery located at 50 Scott St. at the top of Duboce Park.

One way to enjoy New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.

Take Muni for Free on New Year’s Eve 2023 Ride Muni for free during New Year's Eve. As the year comes to an end, we in San Francisco have a lot to celebrate. To keep that celebration safe, we are offering our 24th consecutive year of free Muni rides for all customers on New Year’s Eve. Let Muni be the designated driver for free from 8 p.m...

At our Monday December 11th meeting, the committee voted unanimously to sign a letter of support for better BART access and active transportation improvements to the central stretch of The Embarcadero. The 1989 Earthquake permanently closed the double decker freeway that dominated the waterfront. It’s eventual demolition freed the Ferry Building, opening the plaza to light again. This picture would not have been as festive!

Morning 🌙 at Sunrise

Chase the 🌙 at Ferry buidling to see the sunrise colors. The tower is dressed in festive green and red, setting the perfect holiday vibe.

Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season! Thank you so much all for your support of my personal hobbies!..
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Paul Wells, D10 Representative here. From Potrero Hill, I’m blessed to have a view across The Mission to Noe Valley, which is more like a plateau. This is what a “car free” city looked like. Happy New Year. We reconvene the 4th Monday in January. May we see progress in Public Safety and closer to the vision zero goal on fatal injuries to those who share the streets and roads.

A view of Twin Peaks in 1901 from Noe & 20th.

The Corona Heights Stairways takes walkers up above the Castro towards twin peak (not quite). https://sfcityguides.org/tour/corona-heights/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/technology/cruise-driverless-taxi-united-states.html?smid=url-share

Cruise Stops All Driverless Taxi Operations in the United States The move comes just two days after California regulators told the company to take its autonomously driven cars off the road.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/opinion/driverless-cars-san-francisco.html?smid=url-share

Opinion | Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving Blind When it comes to driverless cars, A.I. undergoes far less government scrutiny than humans before commanding the wheel.

Thousands of students across San Francisco will walk, bike, scoot and roll to school with San Francisco Safe Routes to School during Walk & Roll to School Week from October 2-6. Make sure your school joins the fun! Details at walksf.org/walkandroll.

Bike the Bridges & BrewFest https://p2p.onecause.com/thebridgeride

For Friday September 29th to Sunday October 1st. There will be some changes for access in Golden Gate Park. HSB is a FREE Festival. The late Warren Hellman's gift to .

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2023 The SFMTA will be providing extra Muni service for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park. Two taxi zones will be established as well as several other passenger loading zones.

No mention of bicycles in these tips. What should be added?

September is Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Month

Here are a few safe driving and walking tips, including staying off the phone when behind the wheel.

Update on Valencia.

Paul Wells, SFBAC D10 Rep here. Good to see a start date. The North end of this area connects through “The Hairball” intersection of Bayshore/Chavez/the southern end of Potrero Ave and the maze of ramps that is the 101 Interchange. Still awaiting answers on which agency is responsible for the lighting that is out and the trash that’s piled up around the encampments.

Bayshore Boulevard Quick-Build Project Bayshore Boulevard is a north-south roadway that extends from Cesar Chavez Street to San Francisco’s eastern edge and generally parallels U.S. Highway 101. Bayshore Boulevard between Jerrold Avenue and Helena Street is part of San Francisco's Vision Zero High Injury Network, or the 13% of San Fran...

Paul Wells, D10 Rep here. My opinion, but Anchor STEAM is in my district. Our City. If we don’t work to stave off greedy destruction of local businesses and institutions, we won’t have anywhere working bicycling or walking to in the future.

What Does Anchor Brewing’s Closing Debacle Say About Us? PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK San Francisco does have the capability to embrace its history. Case in point, locals are up in arms over Anchor Brewing’s closing announcement on July 10th. They came out and lined up when they heard the brewery was liquidating. Anchor had made a decision

Big news from Lyft, who operates Bay Wheels. They want to subsidize bike share!

Lyft, the Largest Bikeshare Operator in North America, Wants Out of the Business Lyft’s CEO recently said the company isn’t doing a good enough job directing bikeshare riders to taxi trips.

Next meeting Monday July 24th at 6:30pm. Public is welcome via Zoom. Ask to join when event is posted here. No word about returning to City Hall just yet. Thank you.