San Francisco has a massive yet solvable unprotected bike lane problem

Stephen Braitsch
Nov 4 · 5 min read

On October 4th I organized a day of action to conduct a point in time count of every blocked bike lane violation in the city of San Francisco. Over the course of about 8 hours, approximately 80 volunteers and I documented 259 illegal parking violations using the Safe Lanes app I created earlier this year.

304 blocked bike violations includes about 60 reports from the night before

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