@@alltheagents that would further hurt small businesses. my vote would be to remove parklets, sorry sf, you won't be making money off of this. bring it back to pre pandemic when there wasn't an issue of bike lanes and parking.
Business is already booming on Valencia with the old bike lane. Businesses struggling are using the lane as a scapegoat. To anyone who wants to turn the city into a parking lot: go back to the suburbs.
The entire city and 101 will be a permanent parking lot by 2050 since it's the population of the Bay Area will have increased from 7 million to 10 million. And still, drivers will complain that the combination of mass transit + e-bike/e-scooter is slower.
@@buffbuffy99 wrong. The city is meant for people, not cars. Get with the times, use public transit and bike, skate, etc. and have some appreciation for life
I’d bet money on the fact that business is not going to be that impacted by the removal. They are trying to blame their business challenges on the new bike lane but like …..majority of their traffic is not going to be coming from people driving in cars 🤣🤣 Yall are dumb af
This one was a bit of a fail, but im glad they were willing to try something different and are also willing to listen to feedback from the community. Bike lanes are awesome! Love the new protected bike lane on Frida Kahlo
We all know the center running bike lane was a disaster. SFMTA did not take a look at how other successful cities were integrating bike infrastructure into the urban fabric, and decided to try to reinvent the wheel. In short it only works if there is no car traffic, like if Valencia Street was just bikes, pedestrians, emergency vehicles only. Otherwise, no one is going to risk crossing a lane of car traffic to go shop at a business from the bike lane.
I don't know why American traffic engineers can't copy best practice from elsewhere. Center running bike lanes have been attempted and failed so many times before this. They are totally inappropriate.
i prefer it in the middle, bicycle lanes on the side are dangerous, i can't tell you how many time ive had to slam on brakes because a car didnt want to wait, sped ahead of me and then cuts me while they're turning right.
I don’t understand putting the profits the businesses make before the safety of the people using the road. I was hit once, and doored by drivers while biking down the road under the previous version, and anyone could have told you how dangerous it was with Ubers and delivery drivers suddenly pulling over without checking their mirrors or signaling. I use the center lane almost daily, and think it’s been a great improvement. I hardly see how removing it is going to help businesses in the area. They have surely lost a lot of support from clientele who use the lane who feel the need for a few parking spaces is more important than their life.
Heres an idea WHY not move the bike lane on the next street over! In 19th Ave you wouldnt want that stupid bike lane on that busy street, so they put it on the next street over on 20th. 20th less busy barely any cars, it makes sense to put the bikes away from the busy car areas. I worked for the City before and boy theres a lot of overpaid people just milking the hours there coming up with nonsense ideas just to say they did something today.
Bike lane in the middle of the road is wild and dangerous. It's much better for it to be close to the sidewalk. There's no problems with the bike lanes in Oakland.
nobody bikes in America. maybe Corvallis Oregon because of the bike paths and Portland Oregon until 2010, Portland Oregon had AMAZING bike paths but the drug addicts and mentally ill took them all over. You have to compare it to bike infrastructures in the Netherlands where everybody bikes.
This is not a reasonable solution. You could just as easily say "Here's one solution: Don't drive your car on Valencia!!!!" and it would still wouldn't help the scenario at all.
the laws are designed for cars. Bikes do not need the same laws to navigate streets. human bikes do not need Red Yellow Green lights at intersections or asphalt or access ramp or big parking spots or gas stations. motorbikes and cars do.
SF resudents were willing to share the road with bikes but bikers want to close lanes. Tell them what they told car drivers, TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
Thank goodness! PAINT THE RIGHT TURN LANES GREEN STRIPED SO DRIVERS KNOW THEY HAVE TO MERGE WITH BIKES! Biking is way safer if you just give drivers clear signals about what's going on.
Ha. This is 100% the worst design. Watch how more cyclists get hit, watch how cars get sued more. The original design was horrible, the new one is what other cities were doing and it's not good..... Look and see, it's a disaster. Do these things the old way, it wasn't broken. Curb - Cars - Bike - traffic
The level of entitlement from the few is absolutely preposterous. You live in a world of cars, no one should bend over backwards just because a few hippie bicyclists want to take over the middle of the road. Back in line!
Dont take it out its much safer than the curb side BUILD MORE its better than than next to cars that open doors and dont have PARKLETS to deal with, 50 years riding all kinds of bikes, also bike mech, cross country bike traveler round the world twice and all over Asia and all over Europe and EAST Germany BERLIN WALL and Red Square MOSCOW to see Lenin. Fold up bike 16 inch Dahon put bike in bag check on plane and take off small framed pack w sleeping bag carry on plane. Repaired and welded frame in Yugoslavia and replaced crank spindle in Hong Kong. KEEP THE CENTER BIKE LANE, JUST MAKE MORE THERE DOING THAT ALL OVER AMERICA. Its already there leave it
SFMTA people are slow as most realized this is a horrible idea to begin with. The SFMTA was so for this and it literally destroyed all the business on Valencia.
A bike lane is not hurting business. I was there every weekend in September and October. There's plenty of people. Restaurants and bars are doing fine. The bike lane is in the middle so it's not hurting parking and no one is in anyone's way. This is a great idea to everyone except those who don't like change.
What’s the point of these bike lanes. People will still ride the sidewalk or the driving lane. Is all a waste of money. Look how it looks at telegraph in Berkley. 1 lane when it use to be 2
San Francisco Work Flow: 1. Create a problem that didn't exist 2. Hire good buddies for $500K for three hours of to confirm their made up problem 3. Overpay 20X for bike lane that no one wanted in the first place. 4. Field hundreds of complaints from taxpayers 5. Watch businesses close up in affected area. 6. Hire more $500k consultants for 2 hours of work to tell you the solution for a problem that does not exist is now a problem. 7. Hire your uncle's company to undo something that wasn't supposed to be done in the first place. 8. Citizens that you work for express gratitude and you pat yourself on the back. I think the term for this is weaponized incompetence. If the liberals just asked people what they wanted instead of forcing it down their throats they wouldn't have gotten their clocks cleaned two weeks ago.
Montreal is expanding its bike paths. French Canadians are descendants from Coureur des Bois so they welcome the physicality. They are not soft like rich Californians. ;-) Also, biking over to the brew pub or the poutine place burn the calories of a couple of beers or a poutine.
Same in the south bay. It took a lot of money to close 1/3 of lanes, result in even worse traffic and less than 1% usage bike-lane. Elon's DOGE should take a look on these projects.
@@coolsteven2 I'm not saying the shopkeepers are in the right, but from their point of view, sales lost because people find it harder to park are not being balanced out by increased sales from bicyclists.
@@JoeJ94611 I get that. I'm just not buying what they're selling (pun somewhat intended). The decrease in sales on the corridor are much more complex than the number of parking spots, IMO. There are macroeconomic trends as well as the massive shift in behavior by people post 2020. Including this year with the layoffs. In addition, multiple analyses could not conclude that the bike lane is what caused this decrease in sales.
SIM City style planning is a fun game but it's not for real life economic development, transit safety and taxpayer money. Politicians and city bureaucrats need to do less meddling in working people's lives.
While you're at it, remove the insanely useless bike lanes on Hollywood Blvd in LA. The number of lanes was reduced from 2-1, the parking lanes now stick out into the middle of the street right next to the single lane of traffic, so if you move into or out of a spot, YOU INSTANTLY STOP ALL TRAFFIC EITHER SIDE, and behind the parking lane is the bike lanes which NOBODY USES. STUPIDEST THING EVER
It doesn't take a Harvard MBA to figure out that loss of parking spots leads to loss of foot traffic which ultimately ends in loss of clientele. Unfortunately for SF the Harvard MBA's Dean's List flunkies at the City Planning Department decided to apply this tactic Citywide leaving The City in shambles. But they aren't done yet, come next year they're removing an additional 18,000 parking spots by making it illegal to park within 20 feet from any corner. Thanks A55h0l3s!
get with the times. Cars create problems, bikes solve problems. Just listen to yourself bitch about parking spots and traffic. People riding bikes help with that. Cyclists create more foot traffic in the area. Cars are not dense, take public transit
@@mr_vvs So according to you, all those cyclists creating so much foot traffic must have overwhelmed all those storefronts, forcing them to go out of business over the course of the pilot program. You're quite the genius. You should check in with The City Planning Dept., they will surely have a job opening for you.
The city is too dense to provide bike lanes in general - I'm for creating safe lanes for cyclists in the city if it does not impact issues with losing parking spots, traffic congestions, negative impacts to local businesses - I and many people I know do not venture out to the Mission/Valencia neighborhood because of the lack of parking spots and traffic congestions. We are not happy about this because there are so many great places to eat and shop in the area. Lake Merced area provided dedicated lanes for bikes recently and we noticed we saw more cyclists using the lanes that didn't have the concrete divider than we do now with the divider. We rarely see cyclist using the bike lanes now - I wonder if it feels too 'constricted " for the bikers? all the taxpayers money spent for little use to the bike lanes and it could have been spent better elsewhere, such as the horrendous current conditions of our streets - potholes, uneven patch up work, cracks on the streets from tree roots ....
Bike lanes shouldn't be needed on small streets where traffic is always slow. Bike lanes should be in place on larger boulevards where there is a greater difference between the average speeds of all the road users. Unfortunately Valencia is somewhere in between. What's a fact though is that more cyclists is never going to cause more traffic. A person on a bike is one less person in a car, and cars are primarily responsible for increased transit times throughout the city. You don't need a massive parking space if you use alternative modes of transportation.
bike lanes are fucking stupid. especially now that pretty much any ebike can go 25 mph+ they should just follow the rules of the road like regular vehicles. not to mention the stupid new law of parking 16 ft? near w crosswalk? then the closing of the great highway.... parking and driving in san Francisco is gonna be more and more ass. u know cities in Asia where bikes and mopeds/motorcycle are the majority. they dont need a freaking bike lane. they just use the road like everyone else but not be a dick about it like bicycles riders. hogging the road not letting cars pass.
Not sure what your point is. You say that cyclists should just ride on the street and follow the rules that cars follow, but you also say that bicycle riders are dicks and hog the road, not letting cars pass. Also, motorcycles do not ride in bicycle lanes because they are not bicycles. Motorcycles, especially cars, are far faster and heavier than cyclists, making collisions between them extremely dangerous for cyclists. This is why many cyclists feel less safe on the road and why it can be better to separate motors from cyclists.
Parking, car traffic, bikes paths, parklets. Can they just come to a conclusion that they can't have it all? The street is only so wide
My vote would be for no parking and minimal car traffic. Plenty of room for people and bikes!
@@alltheagents only if buses are improved significantly. More buses, more stops, more security
Hi daddy
People don’t use bike lane anyway.
@@alltheagents that would further hurt small businesses. my vote would be to remove parklets, sorry sf, you won't be making money off of this. bring it back to pre pandemic when there wasn't an issue of bike lanes and parking.
Business is already booming on Valencia with the old bike lane. Businesses struggling are using the lane as a scapegoat. To anyone who wants to turn the city into a parking lot: go back to the suburbs.
It’s not a parking lot. It’s a fucking street. Go ride your bike at the fucking park.
The entire city and 101 will be a permanent parking lot by 2050 since it's the population of the Bay Area will have increased from 7 million to 10 million. And still, drivers will complain that the combination of mass transit + e-bike/e-scooter is slower.
@@buffbuffy99 wrong. The city is meant for people, not cars. Get with the times, use public transit and bike, skate, etc. and have some appreciation for life
I’d bet money on the fact that business is not going to be that impacted by the removal. They are trying to blame their business challenges on the new bike lane but like …..majority of their traffic is not going to be coming from people driving in cars 🤣🤣
Yall are dumb af
and traffic law breaking bikers are?
This is what happens when drivers don't learn how to share the road.
Streets are made for cars.
Streets are made for bikes and cars.
@@bombaybeach208 Valencia St was made for horses & bicycles
@@beemo9 Not anymore.
This one was a bit of a fail, but im glad they were willing to try something different and are also willing to listen to feedback from the community. Bike lanes are awesome! Love the new protected bike lane on Frida Kahlo
Now the businesses will need to come up with new excuses for their crumbling business.
"BIKE LANES ARE RUINING OUR BUSINESS!!! btw please pay 20% junk service fee and on top of that you need to pay a 25% minimum tip, no exceptions"
We all know the center running bike lane was a disaster. SFMTA did not take a look at how other successful cities were integrating bike infrastructure into the urban fabric, and decided to try to reinvent the wheel. In short it only works if there is no car traffic, like if Valencia Street was just bikes, pedestrians, emergency vehicles only. Otherwise, no one is going to risk crossing a lane of car traffic to go shop at a business from the bike lane.
That’s because they are “Progressive.” You know…. Create a problem then fix it at your expense!
I don't know why American traffic engineers can't copy best practice from elsewhere. Center running bike lanes have been attempted and failed so many times before this. They are totally inappropriate.
Notice how the complaints are about cars getting backed up and not bikes? Weird….
The only problem with any of these bike lanes is unsafe doordashers and uberdrivers
i prefer it in the middle, bicycle lanes on the side are dangerous, i can't tell you how many time ive had to slam on brakes because a car didnt want to wait, sped ahead of me and then cuts me while they're turning right.
I know many people that stopped driving on Valencia ever since the middle bike lane was introduced.
So happy this city is turning a corner and refusing to listen to you hyper partisan, virtue signaling asshats.
Yeah, that's been one of the big pros.
I don’t understand putting the profits the businesses make before the safety of the people using the road. I was hit once, and doored by drivers while biking down the road under the previous version, and anyone could have told you how dangerous it was with Ubers and delivery drivers suddenly pulling over without checking their mirrors or signaling. I use the center lane almost daily, and think it’s been a great improvement. I hardly see how removing it is going to help businesses in the area. They have surely lost a lot of support from clientele who use the lane who feel the need for a few parking spaces is more important than their life.
SF Native here.
We never had this issue back in the day!!
SF needs to decide whether their priority are bicyclists or small business.
Tf? Why just those two options?
how did you come to that unreasonable, illogical conclusion? most small business owners have to use a bike for transportation.
@@LoveLee-jz1tj cuz whatever they are trying to do. It's not working out.
@@LoveLee-jz1tjno they don’t, that’s literally a lie lmao
The priority should be the people who live and work here. Businesses come secondary.
You know what would protect patrons dining outside in parklets? A center bike lane.
If you are new to SAN FRAN, you will learn that logic and reason are not part of our culture.
The only real winner are the ones who got paid to build this bike lane and install a new bike lane. Who took the tax payer's money
Heres an idea WHY not move the bike lane on the next street over! In 19th Ave you wouldnt want that stupid bike lane on that busy street, so they put it on the next street over on 20th. 20th less busy barely any cars, it makes sense to put the bikes away from the busy car areas. I worked for the City before and boy theres a lot of overpaid people just milking the hours there coming up with nonsense ideas just to say they did something today.
The real story is how cute Luz looks in that dress. ❤
Cars and bikes will never be able to totally exist safely and everyone knows that.
Bike lane in the middle of the road is wild and dangerous. It's much better for it to be close to the sidewalk. There's no problems with the bike lanes in Oakland.
nobody bikes in America. maybe Corvallis Oregon because of the bike paths and Portland Oregon until 2010, Portland Oregon had AMAZING bike paths but the drug addicts and mentally ill took them all over. You have to compare it to bike infrastructures in the Netherlands where everybody bikes.
Here's one solution: Don't ride your bike on Valencia!!!!
This is not a reasonable solution. You could just as easily say "Here's one solution: Don't drive your car on Valencia!!!!" and it would still wouldn't help the scenario at all.
Now if bicyclists will follow traffic laws and etiquette.......
Where's the cyclist not following the law i was cut off yesterday by a driver making a illegal left turn
the laws are designed for cars. Bikes do not need the same laws to navigate streets. human bikes do not need Red Yellow Green lights at intersections or asphalt or access ramp or big parking spots or gas stations. motorbikes and cars do.
from one stupid idea to an even giant stupid idea.
SFMTA WASTER TAXPAYERS DOLLARS
SF resudents were willing to share the road with bikes but bikers want to close lanes. Tell them what they told car drivers, TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
That’s… what they want to do?
Freaking overachieving city engineers put a ridiculous pop out at ninth and Kirkham now
SF needs to stop crying
idk man, it's really the rest of the USA crying about what happens in SF.
Thank goodness!
PAINT THE RIGHT TURN LANES GREEN STRIPED SO DRIVERS KNOW THEY HAVE TO MERGE WITH BIKES!
Biking is way safer if you just give drivers clear signals about what's going on.
And who paid/pays for this debacle? Report that in USD.
The dirt bikes and cars parked on the bike lane next to the liquor store.
Ha. This is 100% the worst design. Watch how more cyclists get hit, watch how cars get sued more. The original design was horrible, the new one is what other cities were doing and it's not good..... Look and see, it's a disaster. Do these things the old way, it wasn't broken. Curb - Cars - Bike - traffic
The level of entitlement from the few is absolutely preposterous. You live in a world of cars, no one should bend over backwards just because a few hippie bicyclists want to take over the middle of the road. Back in line!
Dont take it out its much safer than the curb side BUILD MORE its better than than next to cars that open doors and dont have PARKLETS to deal with, 50 years riding all kinds of bikes, also bike mech, cross country bike traveler round the world twice and all over Asia and all over Europe and EAST Germany BERLIN WALL and Red Square MOSCOW to see Lenin. Fold up bike 16 inch Dahon put bike in bag check on plane and take off small framed pack w sleeping bag carry on plane. Repaired and welded frame in Yugoslavia and replaced crank spindle in Hong Kong. KEEP THE CENTER BIKE LANE, JUST MAKE MORE THERE DOING THAT ALL OVER AMERICA. Its already there leave it
SFMTA people are slow as most realized this is a horrible idea to begin with. The SFMTA was so for this and it literally destroyed all the business on Valencia.
A bike lane is not hurting business. I was there every weekend in September and October. There's plenty of people. Restaurants and bars are doing fine. The bike lane is in the middle so it's not hurting parking and no one is in anyone's way. This is a great idea to everyone except those who don't like change.
Yeah.... all numbers suggest that Valencia businesses are doing better than in other neighborhoods yet they are still complaining.
What’s the point of these bike lanes. People will still ride the sidewalk or the driving lane. Is all a waste of money. Look how it looks at telegraph in Berkley. 1 lane when it use to be 2
have you been to Valencia Street
I still don't see any cyclist on the sidewalk
@@rickyfox67 obviously not.
Why would anyone ride in the street or sidewalk when there is a well-maintained, safe, and unobstructed bike lane?
Telegraph in Berkeley still doesn't have protected bike lanes?? but if you're misspelling it, I doubt you've actually been there lmao
Finally lord 🙏
And they want to close the great highway by ocean beach as well 😭😭😭 all horrible ideas
the park that will be there by the beach will entertain and host San Franciscans for decades. Rock on!
I remember when Valencia was two lanes going each way. It was way more chill for both cars and bikes. SF overcomplicates everything
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
NO MORE STUPID IDEAS…
San Francisco Work Flow:
1. Create a problem that didn't exist
2. Hire good buddies for $500K for three hours of to confirm their made up problem
3. Overpay 20X for bike lane that no one wanted in the first place.
4. Field hundreds of complaints from taxpayers
5. Watch businesses close up in affected area.
6. Hire more $500k consultants for 2 hours of work to tell you the solution for a problem that does not exist is now a problem.
7. Hire your uncle's company to undo something that wasn't supposed to be done in the first place.
8. Citizens that you work for express gratitude and you pat yourself on the back.
I think the term for this is weaponized incompetence. If the liberals just asked people what they wanted instead of forcing it down their throats they wouldn't have gotten their clocks cleaned two weeks ago.
Waste of $$$$$$
HOW THE HELL CAN YOU CALIFORNICA FOOLS keep voting this way? WE HATE YOU
Dumb..who designed this?
All I see side running bike lanes as is parking for drivers… since that is what they do.
Toronto is doing the same thing. These bike lanes are horrible.
Montreal is expanding its bike paths. French Canadians are descendants from Coureur des Bois so they welcome the physicality. They are not soft like rich Californians. ;-) Also, biking over to the brew pub or the poutine place burn the calories of a couple of beers or a poutine.
Is anyone surprised by this? The clowns that run the city never fail to amaze us. Even Newsom isn’t that stupid… or is he?
Same in the south bay. It took a lot of money to close 1/3 of lanes, result in even worse traffic and less than 1% usage bike-lane. Elon's DOGE should take a look on these projects.
Yeah because he's runs Twitter so well also hows that hyperloop thing going
My tax dollar
Ugh!! Stop removing parking spots!! We desperately need the many parking spots!
And of course, to remove it is going to cost $500k.
You forgot a few extra zeros.
That's okay. You hear about the governor of Ontario, Canada being told that taking out three bike lanes will cost that government $48M.
another reason NOT going to SF
it's not like the US sends its best to SF.
another reason for you to not come to SF* The bigger one is you're lame and we don't want your ass here
We have wayyyy too many city streets closed off for bikers. They can more of a jerk than car drivers. Keep great highway open for commuters!
every comment section in videos about cyclists and bike Lanes proves you wrong
@@rickyfox67 it has to be that they are salty folks who never learned to balance on two wheels commenting out of jealousy.
the damage has been done
they should close it just like Great Highway.
What a waste of money and time. Also businesses leaving because of no customers.
What a screwed-up city.
Remove all bike lanes in the city. Traffic is horrible and hard to find parking.
One more lane won't fix traffic
Why? When people bike instead of drive, drivers will have less car traffic and more parking.
More people will stop cycling if they dont feel safe. That means more cars on the road creating more traffic
take muni, problem solved
last year I checked out the Valencia center bike path. It seems that bicyclists were using it like a freeway and were not stopping to shop.
I live there and I can say the same exact thing about many of the cars I see everyday. What does that have to do with anything?
@@coolsteven2 I'm not saying the shopkeepers are in the right, but from their point of view, sales lost because people find it harder to park are not being balanced out by increased sales from bicyclists.
@@JoeJ94611 I get that. I'm just not buying what they're selling (pun somewhat intended). The decrease in sales on the corridor are much more complex than the number of parking spots, IMO. There are macroeconomic trends as well as the massive shift in behavior by people post 2020. Including this year with the layoffs. In addition, multiple analyses could not conclude that the bike lane is what caused this decrease in sales.
@@coolsteven2 on top of that, people are SICK of junk fee imposed by these "small businesses". Only the tourists gullibly pay these nowadays.
The gov trying to plan out an entire city is why it ends up being stupid.
All of that wasted money
SIM City style planning is a fun game but it's not for real life economic development, transit safety and taxpayer money. Politicians and city bureaucrats need to do less meddling in working people's lives.
Here’s an idea go back to the way it was originally
While you're at it, remove the insanely useless bike lanes on Hollywood Blvd in LA. The number of lanes was reduced from 2-1, the parking lanes now stick out into the middle of the street right next to the single lane of traffic, so if you move into or out of a spot, YOU INSTANTLY STOP ALL TRAFFIC EITHER SIDE, and behind the parking lane is the bike lanes which NOBODY USES. STUPIDEST THING EVER
Your telling me LA of if the most congested cities in America has traffic????
Bike lanes are unnecessary. Vehicles and Bicyclers should follow the rules of the road (as I was taught to do in the 1950"s).
and yet drivers don't know how to share the road or know the laws about bikes
still stupid, if you can't ride in the street, you don't belong on a bicycle in SF.
if you can't safely drive around bicycles you shouldn't be long on the road
bikes cannot navigate through cars IN A MIDDLE LANE
The End of w0keness has begun
Everything is woke to you clowns
Everything I don't agree with is woke
Woke = middle-running bike lane.
not woke = curbside protected bike lane.
It doesn't take a Harvard MBA to figure out that loss of parking spots leads to loss of foot traffic which ultimately ends in loss of clientele. Unfortunately for SF the Harvard MBA's Dean's List flunkies at the City Planning Department decided to apply this tactic Citywide leaving The City in shambles.
But they aren't done yet, come next year they're removing an additional 18,000 parking spots by making it illegal to park within 20 feet from any corner. Thanks A55h0l3s!
get with the times. Cars create problems, bikes solve problems. Just listen to yourself bitch about parking spots and traffic. People riding bikes help with that. Cyclists create more foot traffic in the area. Cars are not dense, take public transit
@@mr_vvs So according to you, all those cyclists creating so much foot traffic must have overwhelmed all those storefronts, forcing them to go out of business over the course of the pilot program. You're quite the genius.
You should check in with The City Planning Dept., they will surely have a job opening for you.
Remove it I don’t care about this
Just don’t put a goddamn bike lane on the goddamn street!?!? Jesus Christ!!!
where else would a bike lane go if not on the street?
The city is too dense to provide bike lanes in general - I'm for creating safe lanes for cyclists in the city if it does not impact issues with losing parking spots, traffic congestions, negative impacts to local businesses - I and many people I know do not venture out to the Mission/Valencia neighborhood because of the lack of parking spots and traffic congestions. We are not happy about this because there are so many great places to eat and shop in the area. Lake Merced area provided dedicated lanes for bikes recently and we noticed we saw more cyclists using the lanes that didn't have the concrete divider than we do now with the divider. We rarely see cyclist using the bike lanes now - I wonder if it feels too 'constricted " for the bikers? all the taxpayers money spent for little use to the bike lanes and it could have been spent better elsewhere, such as the horrendous current conditions of our streets - potholes, uneven patch up work, cracks on the streets from tree roots ....
Bike lanes shouldn't be needed on small streets where traffic is always slow. Bike lanes should be in place on larger boulevards where there is a greater difference between the average speeds of all the road users. Unfortunately Valencia is somewhere in between. What's a fact though is that more cyclists is never going to cause more traffic. A person on a bike is one less person in a car, and cars are primarily responsible for increased transit times throughout the city. You don't need a massive parking space if you use alternative modes of transportation.
San Francisco is too dense for bike Lanes but not too dense for cars ya ok dude
Bike lanes are extremely cheap to implement compared to other transit infrastructure.
Your mentality is so wrong. Your ideas would ruin the city. Go to LA if you love driving so much. Loser
The bike lane is so dumb
bike lanes are fucking stupid. especially now that pretty much any ebike can go 25 mph+ they should just follow the rules of the road like regular vehicles. not to mention the stupid new law of parking 16 ft? near w crosswalk? then the closing of the great highway.... parking and driving in san Francisco is gonna be more and more ass. u know cities in Asia where bikes and mopeds/motorcycle are the majority. they dont need a freaking bike lane. they just use the road like everyone else but not be a dick about it like bicycles riders. hogging the road not letting cars pass.
Works great in the Netherlands. Sorry you're unhealthy.
where are the cyclists hogging the road
Are you proposing that we mandate one covered garage space per car registration like in Asia? It'd definitely free up space...for bike lanes.
maybe you should stop driving into the city or accept that there is a cost to parking?
Not sure what your point is. You say that cyclists should just ride on the street and follow the rules that cars follow, but you also say that bicycle riders are dicks and hog the road, not letting cars pass. Also, motorcycles do not ride in bicycle lanes because they are not bicycles. Motorcycles, especially cars, are far faster and heavier than cyclists, making collisions between them extremely dangerous for cyclists. This is why many cyclists feel less safe on the road and why it can be better to separate motors from cyclists.