As an avid city cyclist, I care a lot about bicycle infrastructure. While things have gotten a lot better in the last few years, San Francisco has a long way to go before it's on an equal footing with cities like Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and even New York.
The hallmark of cycling civilization is protected bike lanes, which at the moment in SF, measure in the hundreds of meters. Biking down Valencia street often feels like playing with your life as you try to weave a path between driver doors opening on parked cars and shared taxis swooping in to drop off passengers in the middle of the bike lane.
In Spring 2017, a group of San Francisco cyclists decided to step in and form human-protected bike lanes in order to draw attention to the still-unmet need.
I for one am grateful for their efforts, and am glad that the idea is spreading.
