A cyclist pedals alongside the now-closed Valencia Street center bike lane on Feb. 18, 2025. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors unanimously adopted the city’s “ Biking and Rolling Plan ” on Tuesday, kickstarting a 20-year effort to connect hundreds of bike lanes across the city.
The goal is to make bike lanes accessible to every San Franciscan within a quarter mile of where they live. The project would change 385 streets across the city — from busy thoroughfares like Market and Valencia to sleepy streets like Steiner, a go-to route along The Wiggle.
The roadways, representing about a tenth of San Francisco streets, would see their existing biking infrastructure updated by barriers, speed bumps, clear crosswalk markings, and other changes.
In some cases, the city would build new bike lanes and, in others, add barriers to existing lanes, install speed bumps, and redesign intersections to connect bike lanes across the city and create a more seamless transition for cyclists. Construction would take 20 years in all, lasting until 2045.
But, in a welcome surprise for San Francisco’s often put-upon transit planners, the majority of those speaking at Tuesday’s hearing embraced the plan. Some even called for it to be built far sooner.
“Twenty years is too late,” said Tom Radulovich, representing the nonprofit Livable City. “Make it a five year plan like the bike plan implemented in Spain,” referring to a project that created nearly 50 miles of bike lanes in Seville between 2006 and […]
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