- January 28th, 2022
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In San Fransisco, members of the "People Protected Bike Lane" advocacy group protested what they see as a lack of progress on establishing long-promised protected bike lanes in their area. Earlier this week, each time a motorist parked in the bike lane to load or run into a shop for "just a minute", protestors temporarily blocked the adjacent traffic lane in order to create space for bicycles to safely leave the bike lane to get around an illegally parked car.
After years of advocacy for Valencia Street (where this recent protest took place) in particular, pilot programs in portions of the street have been conducted since 2019 and, last year, SFMTA did reveal plans to begin installing protected bike lanes and intersections on the length of the street, but the project has failed to get off the ground.
