The document discusses plans for improving bicycle infrastructure and accessibility on Polk Street in San Francisco. It describes creating a curbside bikeway separated from traffic to make biking safer and more comfortable for all ages and experience levels. The goals are to support local businesses by improving access for pedestrians, transit, and deliveries while transforming Polk Street into a north-south bike route. Design concepts include intersection treatments, public spaces, transit stops, and efficient curb usage to create a "People Street" with low traffic speeds and a sense of place.

1. ThinkBike Workshop
Team Blue
Polk Street Corridor
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2. The Team
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3. First Impressions
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7. Part of a Network Local Access
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9. Function Use
Design
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10. Key Goals
1. Support vibrant commercial activity and local businesses
by improving local access and public spaces
- Pedestrians
- Transit
- Deliveries
- Streetscape
2. Transform Polk Street into an inviting, comfortable, and
safe North-South bicycling route for everyone
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11. Polk Street - People Street
+ Safety: Low speeds
+ Highlights sense of place and neighborhood identity
+ Design enables sense and experience of community
+ Flavor of Sunday Streets
+ Low speeds = high spending (great for business)
+ Longer time to realize
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12. Polk Street - People Street
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13. On Your Fiets!
+ Safety: reduces dooring, lowers speeds and reduces parking conflicts
+ Accommodates existing traffic volumes
+ Greater level of comfort for people new to bicycling
+ Improves pedestrian experience and enhances transit access
+ Flexible and modular
+ Possible to implement in 2013 with planned road re-surfacing
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14. Curbside Bikeway with Separation
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15. Intersection Treatments
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16. Public Spaces/
Parklets
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17. Picture 3 Transit Stops
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18. Picture 2 Parking Guidance and
More Efficient Curb Usage
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19. Marketing and Communication
Encouragement
+ Printed materials
+ Key chain card
+ Benefits merchants and cyclists
Education
+ Webpage to host information: The area and the
program
+ Local outreach about new facility types
Enforcement
+ Promote safe cycling to promote livable streets
+ Officer presence to educate and enforce
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20. Safe, Comfortable Access
and an Attractive Destination
Thank You!
Dank U!
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