San Francisco makes guerrilla bike lanes permanent
The gist
San Francisco made permanent the protected bike lanes that anonymous activists installed with cones and posts.
The case shows how unsanctioned street fixes can pressure a city into official change.
How it unfolded
- recentlyTwo cyclists were killed in hit-and-run collisions in San Francisco over the summer.
- recentlyThe anonymous SFMTrA erected protected bike lanes using traffic cones.
- recentlySFMTrA illegally installed soft-hit posts along John F. Kennedy Drive beside Golden Gate Park; the city responded by making the change official.