Linking San Francisco One Bike Lane at a Time

The City has the green light to start striping approved Bike Plan projects, which will add over 30 miles of new bike lanes across San Francisco. Click on each project for more information and ways you can show your support of better biking in San Francisco.

Current update on the newest bike lanes in the ground (updated 1/31/2012):

• Portola Drive bike lanes - Corbett to Sloat: Work continues on this multi-phase project with bike lanes now in on the ground on Portola between Corbett and O'Shaugnessy. This project creates a safer space for commuters and weekend riders getting up and over Twin Peaks.
• JFK Drive, Stanyan Street to Transverse Drive: Separated bikeways approved by the Recreation & Parks Commission! Construction expected to begin in February 2012. Please send a thank you letter to Mayor Lee for his steadfast support on this project (scroll down). Read about the history of the project here. This project is part of the heart of our Connecting the City Bay to Beach route.
• Cesar Chavez Street , US 101 to I-280: Planning for a better connection to the Waterfront. Click for more details on how you can support the Planning Department's efforts to create a better biking and walking experience along Cesar Chavez Street so people of all ages and abilities can get to the Bay, Caltrain and work. Expect near-term bike improvements coming in March 2012.
• 17th Street bike lanes, Corbett Avenue to Kansas Street (including connections) : From the Castro to Mission Bay, this project will link neighborhoods and other important bike routes and will be an essential east-west connection in San Francisco. Bike lanes are in the ground on 17th Street between Church and Treat Street and between Potrero Avenue and Kansas. The gap will be filled between Treat and Potrero later this year. Also, the Potrero Avenue portion of this project (between Division and 17th Street) is complete with bike lanes in both directions providing space for people on bikes on a corridor once-filled with fast moving traffic.

Next up: Bayshore Blvd, 23rd Street and John Muir Drive.

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Voice your support for new bikeways!

Send an email to Mayor Edwin Lee and MTA Director Ed Reiskin today to voice your support for the better biking in San Francisco. Your voice will help show the rising demand for more safe and comfortable crosstown bikeways in San Francisco and help bring more projects across the city.

You can use the text below, and email to Edwin.Lee@sfgov.org, ed.reiskin@sfgov.org, and CC Neal@sfbike.org:

Dear Mayor Lee and Mr. Reiskin: DESCRIBE YOURSELF: Your name. Where you live. Where you work. Which new bike lanes have you enjoyed riding on? How have the bike lanes improved your ride? Do you bike with your family or friends? Add anything else about yourself. As one of the 7 in 10 San Franciscans who ride a bike, I thank you for making these critical safety improvements to our streets. Please continue to make it easier for me, my family and my friends to bike in San Francisco Sincerely,

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34 New Miles of Bike Lanes are coming to San Francisco Streets

All Completed Projects

Click on each project for more information on the project and ways you can show support and win better biking in San Francisco

• Alemany Boulevard bike lanes, Rousseau Street to Bayshore Boulevard.
• Beale Street southbound bike lane, Folsom Street to Bryant Street.
• Claremont Boulevard bike lanes, Portola Drive to Dewey Boulevard.
• Clipper Street bike lanes, Douglass Street to Portola Drive.
• Division Street separated bike lanes, 9th Street to 11th Street.
• Fell Street and Masonic Avenue intersection and traffic signal improvements.
• Howard Street westbound bike lane, short extension at 9th Street.
• Illinois Street bike lanes, 16th Street to Cargo Way.
• Kansas Street bike lanes, 26th Street to 23rd Street.
• Kirkham Street bike lanes, 9th Avenue to Great Highway.
• Laguna Honda Boulevard bike lanes, Portola to Plaza.
• McCoppin Street bike path, Market to Valencia Streets.
• Mississippi Street bike lanes, Mariposa Street to 16th Street.
• North Point Street bike lanes, Van Ness Avenue to The Embarcadero.
• Ocean Avenue bike lanes, Alemany Boulevard to Lee Avenue.
• Otis Street westbound bike lane, South Van Ness Avenue to Gough Street.
• Page and Stanyan Streets traffic signal improvements.
• Phelan Avenue bike lanes, Ocean Avenue to Judson Avenue.
• Potrero Avenue/Bayshore Boulevard bike lanes, 25th Street to Cesar Chavez Street.
• Sagamore Street/Sickles Avenue bike lanes, Brotherhood Way to Alemany Boulevard.
• Scott Street northbound left turn bike lane, Oak Street to Fell Street.
• Townsend Street bike lanes, The Embarcadero to 8th Street.
• Upper Market Street bike lanes, Laguna to Castro.

Improvements coming in 2011 and beyond

New bike lanes are creating safer streets for biking in neighborhoods across the city and linking you to work, school, home and more! Click on each project for more information

Count on the SF Bicycle Coalition is working with the City to accelerate new bike lanes on the ground and make sure all of the Bike Plan projects stay on track. As these new bike lanes are striped, they'll create important links helping the city catch up with years of growing demand for better biking streets. See below for full project details and updates for all 56 bike lane projects.

• 2nd Street bike lanes, Market Street to King Street.
• 5th Street bike lanes, Market Street to Townsend Street.
• 7th Avenue and Lincoln Way, intersection improvements.
• 7th Avenue bike lanes and sharrows, Lawton Street to Lincoln Way.
• 19th Avenue mixed-use path, Buckingham Way to Holloway Avenue.
• 16th Street bike lanes, 3rd Street to Terry Francois Boulevard.
• 23rd Street bike lanes, Kansas Street to Potrero Avenue.
• Bayshore Boulevard bike lanes, Cesar Chavez Street to Silver Avenue.
• Broadway Tunnel signage improvements.
• Broadway bike lanes, Polk Street to Webster Street.
• Buckingham Way bike lanes, 19th Avenue to 20th Avenue.
• Cargo Way bike lanes, 3rd Street to Jennings Street.
• Cesar Chavez Street bike lanes, US 101 to Sanchez Street
• Fremont Street southbound bike lane, Folsom Street to Harrison Street.
• Glen Park Area bike lanes and connections.
• Great Highway and Point Lobos Avenue bike lanes, El Camino del Mar to Cabrillo Street.
• Holloway Avenue bicycle lanes, Junipero Serra Boulevard to Varela Avenue.
• Howard Street westbound bike lane, The Embarcadero to Fremont Street.
• Innes Avenue bike lanes, Donahue Street to Hunters Point Boulevard.
• John Muir Drive bike lanes, Lake Merced Blvd to Skyline Boulevard.
• John F. Kennedy Drive bike lanes, Kezar Drive to Transverse Drive.
• Market and Valencia Streets intersection and traffic signal improvements.
• Masonic Avenue Corridor bike lanes, from Fell Street to Geary Boulevard.
• McAllister Street bike lanes, Market Street to Masonic Avenue.
• McCoppin Street westbound bike lane, Gough Street to Valencia Street.
• Polk Street contra flow northbound bike lane, Market Street to McAllister Street.
• San Bruno Avenue bike lanes, Silver Avenue to Paul Avenue.
• Sloat Boulevard bike lanes, The Great Highway to Skyline Boulevard.

 

Many thanks to SFBC volunteers Rob Guettler & Ian Williamson for all their great work in building out the Bike Network / EIR pages of the website!