San Francisco ThinkBike (September 2011) brought together Dutch and local experts to quickly brainstorm ideas over the course of two days for improving the Wiggle, the route that snakes through the heart of the city.
2. Team
Hillie Talens
Casey Allen
Paul Chasan
Gary Fisher
Cortney Mild
Ian Moore
Maggie O’Mara
Bob Planthold
Ellen Robinson
Jean-Paul Scott
Bridget Smith
Peter Tannen
Andy Thornley
Dustin White
Lisa Zahner
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3. Study Area
1. Market Street
2. Polk Street
3.The Wiggle 1
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4. Purpose
Prioritize bikes along major east-west bike route that
avoids hills and connects Market and Panhandle
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5. Challenges
• Eastbound Duboce at Market –
complex bike crossing
• Duboce/Church &
Duboce/Steiner – complex
intersections with Muni tracks
• Haight Street – busy with Muni
and commercial activity
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6. Challenges
• Scott – cut-through
for motorists
• Scott/Fell – left-turn bike/
motorist conflicts
• All intersections – pedestrian/cyclist/motorist conflicts
• Throughout – tour buses and employer shuttles
• Throughout – lack of route identity and visual cues
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7. Solutions Route Identity
• Surface treatments - streetprint
• Wayfinding for bikes and pedestrians
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8. Solutions Route Identity
Wiggle-themed street furniture – benches and bike racks
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9. Solutions Traffic Circles
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10. Solutions Speed Tables
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11. Solutions Fietsstraat
Bicycle Street - Car is Guest
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12. Solutions Market - Duboce
• Study closure of Buchanan
• Add crossbike adjacent to crosswalk
• Allow eastbound bike movement in one phase
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13. Solutions Duboce - Church
• Crossbikes with refuge
• Rail replacement project
• Cycle track along MUNI
boarding area
• Transit-only lanes
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14. Solutions Church - Steiner
• Channelized bike turn
• Pedestrian bulb-outs
• Clearly marked intersection
• Realigned crosswalk
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15. Solutions Scott - Haight
• Super sharrows on Haight (highlight shared lane with cars)
• Loading zone on Haight to reduce double-parking
• Convert Scott to slow shared street
• Expand sidewalk plantings = more greenery
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16. Solutions Scott - Page
• Planted traffic circle at Scott/Page
• Convert Scott to slow shared street
• Expand sidewalk plantings = more greenery
• Deter cut-through traffic on Scott
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17. Solutions Scott (Oak-Fell)
• Make Scott one-way northbound except bikes
• Green bike box on Oak at Scott
• Pedestrian bulb-outs
• Raised speed tables on Oak
• Expand sidewalk plantings = more greenery
• Deter cut-through traffic on Scott
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18. Solutions Scott - Fell
• Prohibit left-turn from Fell to Scott
• Expand sidewalk plantings = more greenery
• Deter Cut-Through traffic on Scott
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19. Solutions Further Study
• Add left-turn signals on Divisadero to make it more attractive than Scott
• Work with employer shuttles to reroute off Scott
• Restrict tour buses on Scott
• Provide tour bus loading zone along Alamo Square
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20. Solutions Marketing
• Create a consistent logo and colors for the Wiggle
• Community fun rides, incorporated into exisiting
neighborhood events, like Lower Haight Art Walk
• Banners and art along the route
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21. Questions?
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22. Upper Wiggle
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