Results tagged “bicyclists”

Good news! The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will reopen by 9 a.m. today. Although it was initially reported that the bridge will remain closed during this morning's commute -- and, for the most part, it has -- it will open.

              

Friday's Critical Mass was particularly colorful this month in celebration of Halloween. We saw the group go by outside A.C.T before the start of Mamet's November, and the theater crowd was into it.

Hopefully, everyone got their anti-cyclist venom out yesterday, and we can turn now to this scene of unfortunate pain and near tragedy. It looks like a poor cyclist was smacked by a Sports Utility Vehicle going in reverse on Wednesday in Golden Gate Park. Here we give you a pic of the cyclist and after the jump, one of the Toyota 4Runner that hit him. (via SF Citizen)

We're receiving a report of cops cracking down on cyclists running red lights and issuing tickets. The report comes from near Zuni at Van Ness and Market, and multiple cyclists have received citations in the last hour or two. Perhaps another way of beefing up the revenues of the SFPD, or a new phase in Gascon's quality-of-life campaign. Be wary out there, bikers! Traffic laws apply to you too!

Three years after a court-ordered injunction on citywide bicycle improvement projects, an impact study by the SFMTA is expected to be adopted by the City as early as June. Just to back up, this study was demanded by a group of non-cycling citizens--and validated by a Superior Court Judge--who challenged the City's Transit First policy, asking that City Hall examine the impact of all bicycle improvement projects on everything from traffic flow to parking availability. According to Timothy Papandreou and Judson True of the SFMTA, the first of the proposed projects--including new bike lanes, a bicycle sharing program, and retiming of certain traffic signals to benefit cyclists--could now begin as soon as the new budget takes effect on July 1.

For such a hilly town, we sure do have a lot of bicyclists. In case you're of the cyclist persuasion and want to see what kinds of fun new routes our city will be adding, tomorrow at the Grove Street auditorium from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Muni will be hosting an open house of sorts to discuss improvements of the bicycle routes in San Francisco.