Two cyclists killed this summer prompted the San Francisco Transformation Agency to erect temporary protected bike lanes using traffic cones. Normally such guerrilla interventions are temporary, but when the group installed soft-hit posts alongside Golden Gate Park, the city reacted by making the change official. The SFMTr A, a collective committed to safer streets, uses tactical urbanism to provide real safety increases and draw attention to unsafe areas.
Their interventions often involve orange traffic cones, which are impermanent and easily damaged. Adding more robust traffic delineators may have persuaded the city to retain the installation along John F. Kennedy Drive.
The SFMTA stated they generally must remove cones and posts due to code violations and potential traffic conflicts. However, in this case, they plan to install official safe hit posts and leave temporary ones in place until their review process is complete. Guerrilla bike lane projects in Seattle and New York City have had mixed results, with cities initially removing installations but later agreeing to reinstate them.
In San Francisco, which has already built 27 miles of protected bike lanes, the city appears open to progress following this activist-led installation.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing