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Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by schoen on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:10PM (#12954209)
Wow, I was wondering why those soft-hit posts got removed suddenly; I just assumed that they had been placed by the City because they looked 100% identical to official ones (in a place where I've been concerned about safety for a while).

Edit: in fact, I was previously thinking of writing to SFMTA to thank them for placing them (!!).

Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by dyim on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:58PM (#12954459)
You should write that letter, and let SFMTA know that some ruffians have removed the posts ;)
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by schoen on Monday November 14, 2016 @07:59PM (#12954785)
Before the posts were, um, posted, I was thinking of writing to them about that intersection (Folsom and Division) because there's a parking space or a maybe-parking-space which forces cyclists out of the bike line if it's in use, especially by a large vehicle.

Now that this has happened I guess they might react a bit differently to correspondence about it.

Also, I feel like SFMTA may not be super-great about responding to correspondence about specific intersections and traffic design (which is not to say that they don't read it or don't think about what people have to say); I've written to them twice about 17th and Sanchez after someone I know had an accident making a left turn onto the Muni Metro tracks, and I never got a reply.

Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by stanleydrew on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:22PM (#12954869)
> I feel like SFMTA may not be super-great about responding to correspondence about specific intersections

Try tweeting if you haven't already. I tweeted regarding the intersection at 17th and Harrison (before they improved it a couple months back) and they actually created an issue in their tracking system to address it.

The account to tweet at is apparently @SF311. Here's the thread: https://twitter.com/andrewmbenton/status/710485661267075072