San Francisco’s First Bike Box Gets Stenciled!

San Franciscans, if you were wondering what that green painted box on Scott St. is for, wonder no more. San Francisco‘s first green bike box now has a user-friendly picture of a bicycle stenciled on it. Bike boxes, or waiting areas for bikers to pull into at traffic intersections have been used in New York City and Portland, Oregon since 2008 and now have a home in SF too!

JA says:

January 15, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Don’t forget Minneapolis
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/the-worlds-top-biking-cities
kokop says:

January 16, 2010 at 7:46 pm

I am a bicyclist (have both a road and mountain bike) but THIS IS RIDICULOUS. There should be a bike land BESIDE the cars, not in front of them.
adamski says:

January 18, 2010 at 1:38 am

Bike boxes work great..bike boxes to the people!
Huub Joan Franssen says:

January 19, 2010 at 5:43 pm

We have them already for years here in the Netherlands, but I’m not so sure it really works. Because that there are more bike’s then their is space in the bike-box. So you end up with cars and bikes next to each other, and this creates also dangerous situations. Because as a car driver it is easy to overlook a bike, and as bikes it is easy to be tempted to slip past a car. As a biker i stopped counting the near escapes, as car-driver the times i needed to apply emergency breaks.

But In the city, bikes are the fastest way to go, especially when it comes to the old-towns. So i do applaud the initiative SF.