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S.F. once hosted a bike tour on freeways and the Bay Bridge. Let's bring it back
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It has been my dream, ever since I became a bicycle commuter.
San Francisco’s freeways, tunnels and bridges are opened up for bikes. If only for a day, the city’s main arteries become a two-wheeled utopia.
That describes the Great San Francisco Bike Adventure, an annual event from 1986 to 1995 where tens of thousands of bicyclists traveled the city on roadways usually reserved for fast-moving automobiles. Sections of Interstate 280 were opened up, along with spectacular rides across the top deck of the later-demolished Embarcadero Freeway. At one point, CalTrans allowed pedal-powered traffic on the western span of the Bay Bridge.