Separated bike lanes proposed for S.F. Market Street

A group headed by the business-backed Market Street Association, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the civic think tank San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association is hatching a new idea to improve Market. The thought is to create dedicated bike lanes, physically separated from vehicles, such as has been done in Frankfurt, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; and closer to home in Eugene and Bend, Ore.

Proponents of that idea have sketched out a primitive design in which sidewalks and traffic lanes would be narrowed along some downtown segments of Market Street to accommodate a dedicated bike path.

Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Despite efforts, Market Street traffic lingers”

8 Comments

  1. With all the intersections on Market Street, many of them complex and angular, it's going to be quite a trick to design functional sidepaths.

  2. With all the intersections on Market Street, many of them complex and angular, it's going to be quite a trick to design functional sidepaths.

  3. That's kind of what I thought, too.

    "sidepath" — that was the word I was hunting for. (I was in a hurry when I posted and couldn't retrieve the word!)

  4. That's kind of what I thought, too."sidepath" — that was the word I was hunting for. (I was in a hurry when I posted and couldn't retrieve the word!)

  5. …this will be interesting to see how it plays out on the sf political front…
    …& you gents are quit right…on the physical level, it's gonna be a real fuster cluck, no doubt…

  6. …this will be interesting to see how it plays out on the sf political front……& you gents are quit right…on the physical level, it's gonna be a real fuster cluck, no doubt…

  7. Aside from the design challenge, there's also the lawsuit against the SF Bike Plan that forced the city to do a full environmental impact report. Bike-related infrastructure in SF is on hold for another year or so until that's settled.

  8. Aside from the design challenge, there's also the lawsuit against the SF Bike Plan that forced the city to do a full environmental impact report. Bike-related infrastructure in SF is on hold for another year or so until that's settled.

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