Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work and nobody wants
San Francisco was poised to make a big improvement in its central transit system: the
Better Market Street plan. Market Street is one of the major transit arteries of the city, the route that people ride to commute from the Mission and the Haight to downtown.
It’s also a high-injury corridor, and the city aimed to fix that by creating a grade-separated bike lane and lots of new and improved infrastructure.
After years of community input and design, the plan was to introduce a separate lane for bikes, sidewalk improvements, separated lanes for buses, and more. It was pretty inspiring.