Wouldn’t it be lovely if this lovely stretch of Folsom had some bike lanes?
Well, tomorrow there’s a hearing to see whether neighbors think it’d be a good idea or whatever. Reader Brian C. lays down the details:
I noticed one of those “SFMTA Public Hearing” notices near my house at
24th and Folsom today, and the item that caught my eye was:
“ESTABLISH – BIKE LANES
Folsom Street, northbound, 14th Street to 24th Street
Folsom Street, southbound, 13th Street to 24th Street”
I hadn’t heard anything about this until I saw the sign, but that
would be pretty great for the cyclists in the neighborhood. So the
hearing is Friday, Feb 4, at 10 am, in Room 416 of City Hall. We
should really get people out there to support this, because almost
certainly there will be car/NIMBY types there to try to shoot it down.
The notice is online [here]
Thanks, Brian!
[Photo by Google Maps]
I’m a NIMBY type, but I think bike lanes are an awesome idea!
NIMBY means anyone who does not agree 100% with what I want to do.
The current Folsom lanes are so narrow that the buses take up their whole lane plus a quarter of the other one. Two wider lanes instead of four narrow would suit the street well, besides making room for a pair of bike lanes.
I have to wonder, though, why they’re planning on stopping the bike lanes at 24th St? 24th to Cesar Chavez would be key for connecting with the newly-approved Cesar Chavez bike lanes.
I can’t attend the meeting but hope that someone will raise that point. Thanks.
now if only they would add lanes specifically for fine sportscars. it’s a real chore driving my pagani in the same lanes as the hoi polloi in their hondas.
Just scootch on over to Harrison, brah.
Harrison: the best street. Less traffic lights, less traffic in general, already has sweet bike lanes and taco trucks.
correct sir, Harrison is already the choice route. not sure how much use bike lanes on Folsom would even get.
where we really need bike lanes in this neighborhood is on some East-West streets, one on 16th or 17th st and one on 24th or 25th would be clutch.
I really wish they’d push a bike lane down into the SOMA. Sure, Harrison has one to 10th, but then there’s a wall of traffic and a raging street of drivers hell bent on getting to Trader Joes or ‘the clubs’.
I say push one all the way through on Folsom to Rincon Hill, and one going the other way on Harrison.
It appears they’ve started to paint bike lanes on 17th. I saw some very faint lines going from Church to Valencia this morning.
Hell. Yes. Bring the bike lanes.
No if we could only get more bikes riders to obey the laws. I am a pedestrian and I am fucking sick of people riding on sidewalks and blowing through crosswalks and almost hitting me.
No = now.
agreed, it’s a sideWALK not a sideBIKE!
well guess what, if there were more bike lanes there would be less people riding on the sidewalk, so it looks like everyone wins.
Use Harrison Street! Friggin’ [lazy] idiots…
Folsom will make a wonderful bike lane. AA continuous north bound lane from 24th to the Embarcadero. That’s connecting the City. Thank you SFMTA!