SFMTA just sent out an update about the Valencia Street center bikeway pilot, which includes a note that SFMTA is “meeting with merchants to figure out the best design for a [curbside protected] bike lane.” Positive news!
Curbside protected bike lanes with curbside parklets — with parklets directly along the sidewalk — are the safest design that’s better for businesses and people using parkelts.
SFMTA should move forward with this design for between 15th and Cesar Chavez to make Valencia better.
Curbside bike lanes — or “side-running” as SFMTA refers to them — with curbside parklets reduce conflicts between people walking, biking, scooting, and using mobility devices and reduce car noise and danger for people in parklets.
But also, the solution to bad design that is dependent on people reading signs is not more and bigger signs!
Please stop wasting more time and money on signs, and expedite the installation of a (self-enforcing) design that is proven to increase safety and bike ridership quickly!
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