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Eyes on the Bikeways – Market and Valencia
In 2009, with tremendous volunteer and member support, the SF Bicycle Coalition helped champion 45 projects that are now making it easier to get around the city by bike. While most of those projects...
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Coming to the Mission Next Year: San Francisco’s First Raised Bikeway
San Francisco is set to get its first raised bikeway next year! The showcase bikeway is part of the Mission/Valencia Gateway project and will stretch southbound on Valencia Street from Cesar Chavez...
View ArticleSFMTA Commits to 24 Miles of Bike Improvements This Year
We are thrilled to announce that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has committed to start construction on more than 24 miles of projects that will make it safer and more...
View ArticleWhen It Rains (Raised Bike Lanes,) It Pours
Raised bike lanes are common in great bicycling cities like Copenhagen (pictured above,) but relatively new in the United States. We’re excited that several raised bike lanes will soon be transforming...
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Remembering Mary Brown, Pioneer for Valencia Street Bike Lanes
We recently said goodbye to Mary Brown, an influential and much loved presence in San Francisco’s bicycle community, who passed on December 10 of cancer. On behalf of so many who continue to benefit...
View ArticleThoughts on Valencia? Take Our Survey
Tired of navigating around double-parked cars on Valencia Street? Fill out our survey and make your voice heard: We’re looking for input from people who bike on their personal experiences on Valencia...
View ArticleValencia Walking Tour
With public workshops slated for this summer, we’re working with the SFMTA and our members to survey Valencia Street. Join us Monday, May 21 from 6:00 to 7:30 PM for a walking tour of Valencia Street...
View ArticleWe Need Numbers for Valencia
The wait to see proposed designs for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street is over. You have two opportunities coming up to see them for yourself this month. Are you in? I’m There Our members have...
View ArticleValencia Public Workshop #1*
This is an SFMTA event.* The SFMTA are hosting a public workshop on July 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Synergy School to gather feedback on tentative design proposals for the Valencia Bikeway Improvements...
View ArticleValencia Public Workshop #2*
This is an SFMTA event.* SFMTA are hosting a second public workshop on July 28 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm at The Women’s Building to gather feedback on tentative design proposals for the Valencia Bikeway...
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Dig into Valencia Street Designs With Us
Two public meetings, two packed rooms. Now that the protected bike lane proposals have been unveiled for Valencia Street, join us as we dig into the designs and take a deeper look at three different...
View ArticleValencia Member Committee Meeting
It’s time to regroup and look over the three possible designs for Valencia Street together as the City looks to identify a final, preferred proposal by this fall. Join us August 7th at Muddy Waters...
View ArticleWeigh In On Valencia Designs
We saw an incredible turnout at last month’s SFMTA workshops where we caught our first glimpses at the new proposed designs for Valencia Street. If you weren’t able to make it, you still have a chance...
View ArticleValencia Committee Meeting
Mayor Breed has given the SFMTA four months to install protected bike lanes on Valencia Street from Market to 15th Street. Now that we have a path forward, we need to make sure people who bike here are...
View ArticleProtected Bike Lanes On Valencia Up For Approval
With a room full of attendees at last week’s Valencia workshop, the City’s project team revealed plans for protected bike lanes from Market to 15th streets. If we want to see this urgency continue,...
View ArticleCelebrating Progress on Valencia Pilot
It’s time to celebrate a successful, people-powered campaign for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street! Change doesn’t have to take years, and we want to thank you and City staff for making this...
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Townsend, Howard, Valencia on the Horizon
We had a record-breaking year in 2018, with more than five miles of protected bike lanes built. Whether it was Tenderloin’s first protected bike lane on Turk Street or filling in critical gaps on 17th...
View ArticleWhat’s the score for the Valencia Pilot?
Protected bike lanes on Valencia Street were installed in February, but we won’t stop until the entire corridor has a bike lane free from Uber and Lyft drivers. The great news is that the Valencia...
View ArticleProtected Bike Lanes Coming to 19th to Cesar Chavez
Since protected bike lanes went in between Market and 15th streets last February, the data shows that safety on Valencia Street has improved and people biking feel the change. But we’ve heard loud and...
View ArticleValencia Happy Hour
Right now we have a golden opportunity to fast-track the next phase of protected bike lanes through the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) quick-build process. If successfully...
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