Transportation
Anonymous San Franciscans Are Making Renegade Bike Lanes
After two cyclists were killed in hit-and-runs on the same day, the SFMTrA grabbed traffic cones and took action.
Cyclists in San Francisco’s Mission District might’ve been surprised this week to discover a different kind of bike path. It was a regular curbside lane, but protected with traffic cones directing right for “BIKES” and left for “UBER.”
The fortified passage was the work of SFMTrA, a riff on the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) that stands for “SF Transformation.” The shadowy activists, who seem to have a warehouse of orange cones, have been erecting protected lanes around San Francisco that last for brief periods before they (or someone else) remove them. The group joins others nationwide to push for safe roads with guerrilla actions, including organizations in New York, Boston, and Portland.