New GREEN BIKE LANE in downtown San Diego!

that’s a FIRST in san diego!!!

it only took a couple people to be killed, but finally some paint and plastic pylons are on the ground! 

however, there’s no dashed green paint (the second pic) for the “conflict zone” (WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN DESIGNED AWAY, by the way), and that worries me. it’s similar to the current Market St. “clusterfuck” in SF where you’re in the protected bike lane, but then you have to merge out to the left lane so drivers can get into the right turn-only lane. 

The Genovese Treatment – Cycletracks on (a part of) Montezuma Road. bikesd, 17.05.13.

The SFMTA installed bike lanes this weekend on the Great Highway, north of Fulton Street at Golden Gate Park. The Great Highway continues as Point Lobos Avenue as it runs by the Cliff House.

The bike lanes are buffered from motor traffic on some stretches, and two of the four traffic lanes on Point Lobos in front of the Cliff House were removed, which should help calm car traffic. The bike lane also disappears on the downhill section of Point Lobos, though sharrows were stenciled in the traffic lane, and there’s a wide shoulder between the lane and the row of angled car parking which it runs by.

The bike lanes were installed as part of a re-paving and streetscape improvement project underway (17.01.13) by the Department of Public Works that’s expected to be finished by October. The SFMTA will install plastic posts in the buffer zones “later in the construction period,” according to the agency’s Livable Streets Facebook page.

sf.streetsblog, 13.05.13.
photos by andy thornley.

yay~ gotta bring my bike to SF again soon!

and dyahhh why can’t san diego do this??! tons of street repaving underway, but no new bike lane or crosswalk or road diet striping—just fail business as usual. coordinate that sh-t!

“Here’s a tip for you #bikeCHI: Act like pedestrians are squirrels. They’re illogical, unpredictable and seemingly deaf.”

—@DearbornBikeLn

but in all seriousness, the no turn for cars while bikes and peds are crossing the street is great. you feel no stress to walk faster nor danger of a car trying wedge its way behind you before you even reach the curb.

dearborn two-way bike lane.

jamisonwieser:

Just in time for today’s annual bike to work day in San Francisco, the SFMTA has installed bike lanes on Oak Street, filling a three block gap in a route that runs from the ocean to the bay.

Even though the gap has meant upwards of 1,500 cyclists per day sharing a lane — not always successfully — with traffic running 40 miles per hour on the one-way street, the SFMTA had resisted making bike safety improvements in order to preserve all three traffic lanes as well as the two lanes of free parking on the either side of the street.

Dedicating a single lane of traffic on just one of the dozens of east-west streets is not an unreasonable request.

Photo by Bryan Goebel

cool thing #1 about Bike to Work Day:

cities try to finish up bike projects by that date.

• real-time bike counter installed on Market St. in SF.
• new Oak St. bike lane, also in SF.

google treasure maps streetview. east fernando st, san jose, ca.

designs for 14th street, oakland. 

hopefully the bottom option (cycle tracks) will be built next year.

(Source: Flickr / dianneyee)