San Francisco Bike Blog

Going to take a break. 2 days. 2 months. 2 years. We’ll see. Thanks for all the comments and thoughts.
I leave you in capable hands. (Should be online in the next few hours.)
Happy riding!

The lives of our betters are nothing like our lives:
Ford’s agency oversees the city’s public transit, parking enforcement, traffic regulation, pedestrian and bike operations. His current base salary is $315,140.
Not sure if LA is comparable to SF in terms of what the average income of bus riders is, but check this out:
The agency’s buses carry [...]

Y’all know how much I hate cars. Even electric cars.
The thing is, I don’t just hate them because they intimidate, harass, injure and kill pedestrians and cyclists, but also because they’re bad for the environment. The Jevons Paradox (wiki) suggests that electric cars might actually be worse for the world than regular cars.
America could, in [...]

One of the main arguments for rail-based solutions is ‘TOD’ - Transit-Oriented Development — i.e. if you build a nice transit system, then investors will build stuff near that transit system - that is, ‘development’ will take place - and that is good for people, the city/town, the environment, etc.
But what if you don’t need [...]

No. But neither will rail. Generally speaking. But rail presents a much lower barrier to entry for people. Everywhere rail opens in the next couple of years, we’ll continue to see their ridership numbers explode. For BRT, things will stagnate, and the people will generally dislike the bus experience - as the top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, all-in-bet [...]

We should all get behind the idea of ‘Open Government‘.
I thought of this when I read this article. Some of the dudes from EveryBlock are bikers and reporters and advocates for open government data and better bike facilities and better reporting and all sorts of stuff.
And it is really just the larger picture of getting [...]

If you’ve been in the transit biz a while, this is more than obvious to you, but I still want to make the case - to help fix public transit, we need to end homelessness, and fix the healthcare problem.
Muni Diaries is one of those websites that likes to get off on making fun of [...]

Unsafe At Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile was the book that launched Ralph Nader to national prominence. In 1965, before many of us in the Livable Streets movement were even born, Ralph published this anti-car, pro-pedestrian screed that would help change the auto industry, and may have helped to save countless [...]

Yes.
Ride across the Potomac on the Yellow Line:

Or it might be a full-on ‘Tour Train’:

On a semi-related note, there is a whole series of ‘Metro In A Day’ videos for the major DC metro lines. Here’s one for the red green line:

Bus travel will rarely, if ever, be uplifting. Riding your bike is almost [...]

Our military occasionally hands out not just bombs, but bikes. Nice.
It got me thinking - the new 100-acre outpost - how do people get around?
One hundred acres is not necessarily the size of the land mass of Australia, but it’s not exactly small either.
Is it moral to advocate for bicycles at our embassy location in [...]