SF News Suspect In Austin Murder of SF-Based Cyclist Captured In Costa Rica After Going On the Run for 43 Days Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, the woman who had been sought for over a month in the May homicide of San Francisco-based competitive cyclist Moriah Wilson, was arrested Wednesday in Central America by the U.S. Marshals Service.
SF News Has Stanley Roberts Found San Francisco's Most Dangerous Bike Lane? We're all educated people, well aware that (as first stated by Ian Betteridge), "any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." But after watching Wednesday's "People
SF News Bluegogo Bikeshare Pulling All Cycles Scattered About SF Streets Oh and anther one!! But this #bluegogo isn't looking too hot 😨 pic.twitter.com/zJweXMi3mO— girlonabike (@girl_on_bike) March 26, 2017 Chinese bike share company Bluegogo caused quite a stir when it
Arts & Entertainment Ask a San Francisco Native: Have Bikes and Cars Always Hated Each Other? Dear Rain, I feel like there's a lot of weird antagonism between cyclists, motorists, and pedestrians in this town, a feeling, I will admit, I got after reading numerous comments on bike related
SF News Chastened By Regulators, Chinese Bike-Share Company Plans Scaled-Back 'Soft' Launch In SF Bluegogo, the app-based Chinese bike share company whose reported plan to drop thousands of bikes around San Francisco willy-nilly had local lawmakers tut-tutting, is opting instead to proceed with caution. Specifically, that means
SF News Chinese Bike-Share Outfit Warned Not To Drop Thousands Of Bikes On SF Streets Without Permits Chinese bike-sharing startup Bluegogo may have to backpedal on its plans to expand to San Francisco. City officials are warning the company not to proceed without permits and perhaps to the detriment of
SF News Rival Surveys Study Proposed Bike Lanes For Fell And Oak Along The Panhandle San Francisco cyclists accustomed to the mixed-use path through the Panhandle to and from Golden Gate Park may someday be granted a lane of their own. Sure, protected lanes on Fell and Oak
SF News Report: Cycling Up Across San Francisco Daily trips by bicycle are up across San Francisco this year, with a new SFMTA report putting the increase at 8 percent over last year. Specifically, this refers to weekday rides — suggesting that
SF News Refried Cycles, San Francisco's Best Little Used Bike Shop, Has Closed Refried Cycles, a Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory of bike parts expertly combined and brought to life, is gone. Their phone number has been changed and Yelpers and Facebookers report the store as permanently closed.
SF News Community Members Push Closing Golden Gate Park To Most Cars With the June death of 41-year-old Heather Miller likely on the minds of some, community members gathered Saturday at Golden Gate Park’s County Fair Building to propose different approaches the city of
SF News Traffic Collisions Account For Half Of All Injuries Treated At SF General In what will likely come as a surprise to even the most jaded of San Francisco's pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, we learn via a Department of Public Heath report that half of all
SF News [Update] Bay Bridge Bike Path Will Finally, Probably, Open This Sunday Scroll to the bottom of this post for updates. After years of construction and numerous delays, the Bay Bridge bike path is finally set to open this Sunday. Probably. KQED News reports that
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams's 87 Bicycles To Be Auctioned Off For Charity The late Robin Williams was mostly known as a performer, but the Tiburon resident was also an avid cyclist and collector of bicycles. Since his passing in 2014, the collection has fallen into
SF News Bike Lane Posts Installed By Safety Vigilantes Can Stay, Says SFMTA In news that will come as a surprise to many, officials with the SFMTA will not order the immediate removal of the semi-permanent safety posts installed by the safety activist group SFMTrA. Instead,
SF News Tired Of Official Inaction, Safety Vigilantes Install Bike Lane Safety Posts A group of anonymous pedestrian and cycling safety advocates have upped their game in a challenge to city officials to do more, now, to make San Francisco streets safer. San Francisco Metropolitan Transformation
SF News Drivers Unaware Of 3-Foot Passing Law With Cycling Injuries On The Rise You, being an enlightened and informed reader of SFist, already know about California's 3-foot passing law. However, as CBS 5 reports, some drivers in the Bay Area are unaware that state law dictates
SF News Officials Blame Rock Creek Fire In Sierras On Bike Pedal, But Cyclists Aren't Buying It Officials say an unlikely culprit is to blame for one of the many wildfires currently ravaging the California wilderness, but their unusual findings are being met with skepticism and disbelief. The Chronicle reports
SF News Surprise! Bay Bridge Bike Path Delayed Yet Again Remember when officials promised us in May that the bike path connecting the East Bay to Yerba Buena Island would fully, finally open in September? Well, yeah, about that. The Chronicle reports that
SF News Slain Cyclist's Family Argues City Should Stop Removing Memorials When a cyclist dies on the streets of San Francisco, the tragedy is often memorialized by a ghost bike. You've likely seen the all-white bikes chained to various poles or signs near the
SF News Candidate For D7 Supervisor Argues Cyclists Need Licenses And Bike Insurance A candidate for District 7 supervisor and columnist for the Examiner yesterday published a bizarrely out-of-touch op-ed suggesting that San Francisco mandate people be required to get special licenses, insurance, and registration before
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Unveils Plan To Make Streets Safer For Bicyclists Mayor Ed Lee yesterday issued an executive directive designed to both spur safety improvements to the city's streets and increase the speed at which San Francisco meets its Vision Zero goal. KQED reports
SF News Cyclist Injured After Striking Minivan In Golden Gate Park A cyclist was rushed to an area hospital Thursday afternoon, following a collision with a minivan in Golden Gate Park. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the collision occurred at 12:35
SF News Someone Put A Spike Strip On A Marin Mountain Biking Trail Marin mountain bikers are on edge this week after two cyclists discovered a spiked strip laid across a popular trail. The Marin Independent Journal reports that the apparent booby trap consisted of over
SF News SF To Pay $3.25 Million To Family Of Elderly Cyclist Crushed By Muni Bus It was 8:40 a.m. on Friday October 18, 2013, when 78-year-old cyclist Cheng Jin Lai was crushed by a 27-Bryant Muni bus as it turned from 11th Street onto Bryant Street.
SF News Enormous Branch Blocks Panhandle Bike Path On Sunday evening at around 6 p.m. in the Panhandle, a huge cypress tree branch came crashing down onto the bike path that runs along Fell Street. Fortunately, there are no reports